{"id":40404,"date":"2020-11-08T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40404"},"modified":"2020-11-08T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:59:45","slug":"the-true-definition-of-chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40404","title":{"rendered":"The True Definition Of Chutzpah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jihad Watch<\/a> posted an article today about three Palestinian NGOS who are suing Great Britain for the Balfour Declaration. This is not a joke. I guess the Palestinians are upset about being left out of the peace deals that are currently being brokered in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Actually the Balfour Declaration is the \u201chistoric precursor\u201d to the Palestine Mandate (1922), which in turn is the real precursor of the Jewish state, setting out its territorial boundaries, and detailing the duties of Great Britain, as the holder of the Mandate, to further the establishment, through \u201cencouraging Jewish immigration\u201d and \u201cclose settlement by Jews on the land,\u201d of the Jewish National Home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this document \u2013 the Mandate for Palestine \u2014 the League of Nations recognized the \u201chistorical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine\u201d and the \u201cgrounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.\u201d Thus was acknowledged the 3500-year Jewish connection to this land, where Judaism, and the Jewish people, were both formed. This historic claim thus became a legal one, for the League of Nations\u2019 system of mandates became part of international law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you look at the original boundaries for Israel laid forth in the Balfour Declaration, you see that Israel was intended to be much larger than it currently is. The original boundaries of Israel included Jordan, which was later separated from Israel to become a Palestinian state for the Arabs.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

In 1917 there were no \u201cPalestinians.\u201d Or rather, the word \u201cPalestinian\u201d was used to describe the Jews, not the Arabs, then in \u201cPalestine.\u201d In that land, at the time of the Balfour Declaration, there were fewer than 600,000 Arabs, none of whom were considered in 1917, or in 1937, or in 1957, to constitute a separate \u201cPalestinian people.\u201d They were indistinguishable in religion, language, dress, cuisine, and customs, from Arabs in neighboring lands; in fact, many of the Arabs in \u201cPalestine\u201d in the first half of the 20th century had recently come from Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, attracted by the economic development that the arrival of the Zionist pioneers fostered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The Jews, right up to the War of Independence in 1948, paid for every dunam of private land they settled on in Mandatory Palestine. The Mandate\u2019s explicit provisions gave Jews the right to settle on \u201cstate and waste lands,\u201d which they also did. After the 1948 war, in which the armies of five Arab countries tried to snuff out the young life of the nascent Jewish state, Jews did settle on land that had been abandoned by their Arab owners, rather than let it remain unused. Great Britain had nothing to do with that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for Mahmoud Abbas\u2019 claim about the U.K. \u201csigning away the Palestinians\u2019 homeland,\u201d the \u201cPalestinians\u201d came into existence as a separate \u2014 if entirely factitious \u2014 people only in the late 1960s, created for propaganda purposes, to turn inside-out the Arab gang-up on Israel, which could now be presented as the struggle of a tiny people \u2014 the \u201cPalestinians\u201d \u2014 against the mighty Israelis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the Palestinian Arabs who have a case to bring against Great Britain. It is, rather, the Jews whom the British repeatedly betrayed, both in Mandatory Palestine and in Europe, from where so many might have escaped the Holocaust and made it to Palestine, had the British not directly violated Article 6 of the Mandate, according to which the Mandatory \u201cshall facilitate Jewish immigration\u201d to Palestine. Were the U.K. government to pay any attention to this ludicrous lawsuit in Nablus, it should use the occasion to tell the world all they ways His Majesty\u2019s Government betrayed the Jews of Palestine. The opening is there \u2014 provided by those Palestinian lawyers themselves \u2014 for those home truths to be told. It\u2019s the perfect time to tell them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is a history lesson most of us never got in school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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