1/27/2024 0 Comments Balfour declaration![]() The Balfour Declaration was incorporated into the Sevres Peace Treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which gave international sanction for the establishment of a national Jewish homeland and, therefore, became the legal cornerstone for the Jewish State. (Photo: Wikicommns) Bible Prophecy Fulfilled I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.īritish Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour and his signed letter, dated “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”. I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. The first High Commissioner Herbert Samuel (left) in the governor’s house in Jerusalem stands with Lord Arthur Balfour (middle) and General Edmond Allenby (right), who captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire. Talk about being stuck in the past! The Palestinians might as well sue Iran for the Cyrus declarations, or file a class action suit against Abraham for buying land in Hebron.” ![]() This is the least Great Britain can do.”įormer Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to this far-reaching attempt to delegitimize Israel by telling the UN Assembly: “We ask Great Britain, as we approach 100 years since this infamous declaration, to draw the necessary lessons and to bear its historic, legal, political, material and moral responsibility for the consequences of this declaration, including an apology to the Palestinian people for the catastrophes, misery and injustice this declaration created and to act to rectify these disasters and remedy its consequences, including by the recognition of the state of Palestine. In fact, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would like to sue Britain over this letter.Ī few years ago, he told the UN General Assembly: ![]() The consequences of that letter, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, still reverberate around the world today. A Jewish lad holds the flag of the State of Israel.Ī letter issued by the British government favoring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish People began the process of fulfilling Bible prophecy concerning Israel in these last days.
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