On March 28, 1921, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill visited Jerusalem. He defended the Balfour Declaration as "one of the facts definitely established by the triumphant conclusion of the Great War." He failed to explain it was a fait accompli.
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In September 1917 Future British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon wrote to Edwin Montagu: that Palestine was already inhabited by Arabs who would “not be content either to be expropriated for Jewish immigrants or to act merely as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the latter.”
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However, once the British were embroiled in World War I, particularly during 1916, a disastrous year for the Allies in which there were 60,000 British casualties in one day alone, Zionists were able to play a winning card.
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While they previously had appealed to religious or idealistic arguments, now Zionist leaders could add a particularly powerful motivator: telling the British government that Zionists in the U.S. would push America to enter the war on the side of the British.
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The British in turn would promise to support a Jewish home in Palestine afterward.
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As Professor of History William Hale explains “by backing Zionism worldwide enthusiastic Jewish support for the allied cause could be assured.”
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In 1916 “the Allied cause was far from bright” and therefore Zionists worked to persuade British officials that “the best and perhaps the only way to induce the American President to come into the war was to secure the cooperation of Zionist Jews by promising them Palestine”
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This move served to enlist and mobilise the hitherto unsuspectedly powerful forces of Zionist Jews in America and elsewhere in favour of the Allies on a quid pro quo contract basis.
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Thus the Zionists greatly helped to bring America into the war and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was but the public confirmation of the necessarily secret ‘gentlemen’s’ agreement of 1916.
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The American population would need convincing of the necessity to enter World War I. Woodrow Wilson established The Creel Committee and CPI to create a nationwide campaign of disinformation and propaganda to serve, in part, the interests of Zionism.
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Churchill (beneath the tree) defends the Balfour Declaration in a speech in 1921 at the Hebrew University tree-planting ceremony.
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Less than two decades later British Major General Orde Wingate would be training Zionist terror squad Haganah and the Special Night Squads (SNS) in collective punishment, and counterinsurgency techniques leading to the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians and the Nakba.
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🇬🇧 The British Mandate paved the way for Israeli occupation.
Britain:
- Destroyed over 5,000 Palestinian Homes.
- Trained terror squad Haganah.
- Trained Special Night Forces (SNS)
- Taught counter-insurgency
- Blew up homes
#Gaza
#Zionism
#BritishMandate
#Israel
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Fascinating interview with Middle Eastern historian Peter Shambrook explaining how the UK played a pivotal role in the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
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His book:
Policy of Deceit - Peter Shambrook.
‘Deeply researched, powerfully argued and meticulously documented… A strikingly fair-minded book about one of the shabbiest and most sordid chapters in the history of the British Empire.’
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@LillyBe58210684
This article goes over all the unfulfilled commitments and broken promises and in the last few paragraphs discusses the possibility of an apology and the potential political fallout from it.
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@_tgwilson_
@Sea_of_Lavander
Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes.
Cecil Rhodes the colonialist played an important role in the colonization of Palestine,
Cecil Rhodes who also colonized Zimbabwe and renamed it after himself as Rhodesia.
Zionism is the most dangerous type of settler
#Colonialism
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#FreePalestine
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