PALESTINE/ISREALI WAR :BRITAIN ACCUSED OF PRETENCE

PALESTINE/ISRAELI WAR:

BRITAIN ACCUSED OF PRETENSE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE WAILING WALL WHICH IS THE HOLIEST SPOT IN JUDAISM IS HOLY TO CHRISTIANS WHO ADORE IT AS THE SPOT OF BIBLICAL SOLOMON'S TEMPLE AND THE NEARBY MOUNT OLIVES WHERE JESUS PREACHED,FOR MUSLIMS THE AL MASJID AL AQSA ,,FONDLY CALLED DOME OF THE ROCK IS THE THIRD MOST IMPORTANT SPOT IN ISLAM

Britain has been accused of been the architect of the crisis  between the Jews, Muslims and Christians alike over landed territories  been fought  for by Palestine and Israel.

The battle which has been going for a long time than every member of the present generation can actually recall has seen several thousands killed on either side of the divide on an annual basis.

So bad is the deep seated hatred among this two nations that even inter-tribal marriage and other forms of cultural assimilation are not  encouraged in any form amongst them.

An impeccable source who is a global foreign relations expert but who does not want his names in the print told Paedia Express Multimedia exclusively in Lagos, Nigeria that he was shocked that Britain has been able to deceive the rest of the world about there culpability in the crisis  so much that nobody is holding them accountable for what was happening in Jerusalem.

He told this Reporter that in fact it was Britain that in 1906 that used its political muscles to mastermind the statehood of Israel through the Balfour declaration.

According to him ,were it not for a last minute change in plans due to the spiritual importance of Jerusalem to the three monotheistic faith, Uganda would have been the state of Israel Today.

He Added That Britain’s role  in the entire saga lately has been hypocritical as they behave as if they did not realize that they started the crisis in the first place.

According to a source on google, The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
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.^[1][2]
The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917.^[3] The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the British Library.

In 1896, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria-Hungary, published Der Judenstaat ("The Jews' State" or "The State of the Jews"), in which he asserted that the only solution to the "Jewish Question" in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a state for the Jews. Political Zionism had just been born.^[5] A year later, Herzl founded the Zionist Organization (ZO), which at its first congress, "called for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law". Serviceable means to attain that goal included the promotion of Jewish settlement there, the organisation of Jews in the diaspora, the strengthening of Jewish feeling and consciousness, and preparatory steps to attain those necessary governmental grants.^[6] Herzl passed away in 1904 without the political standing that was required to carry out his agenda of a Jewish home in Palestine.^[7]

During the first meeting between Chaim Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann's objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, (the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Programme), rather than in Palestine. According to Weizmann's memoir, the conversation went as follows:

"Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?" He sat up, looked at me, and answered: "But Dr. Weizmann, we have London." "That is true," I said, "but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh." He ... said two things which I remember vividly. The first was: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" I answered: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves." ... To this he said: "If that is so you will one day be a force."^[8]

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues. The memorandum stated that "I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire".