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Uprooted Palestinians seek hanging the traitor “Mahmoud Balfour” , the Oslo Engineer for selling 82% of Historic Palestinian Land
On November 6th, 2012, the 95th anniversary of the illegal Balfour Declaration, traitor Abbas made “a similar shameful declaration in an interview with Israeli channel 2 TV.
“In the interview, Abbas gave up the Palestinian right of return to their homeland, surrendered 80% of Palestine to Israel, recognized Israeli occupation as a legal state, criticized Palestinian armed resistance of the Israeli illegal occupation as terrorist acts, and vowed to protect Israeli security by oppressing any possible future Palestinian Intifadha.In the interview Abbas stated that although he is a refugee from the town of Safed, occupied by Israel since 1948, he does not have the right to live there although he likes to visit the town as a tourist. “… [I]t is my right to see Safed, but not to live there…” Abbas stated because Safed is part of Israel. He stated strongly: “Palestine for me is the 67 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is now and forever (he emphasized again): This is now and forever. This is Palestine for me. I am a refugee, but I am living in Ramallah, I believe that West Bank and Gaza is Palestine, and the other parts is Israel.In this statement Abbas recognized Israel as a state on occupied Palestinian land, and dropped his right, as a forcefully and illegally evicted Palestinian refugee, as well as the right of all Palestinian refugees, to return to their own homes.” Abbas’s Declaration = Balfour’s Declaration by by Elias Akleh——————————————————
Palestinians’ Abbas Seeks British Apology for 1917 Balfour Declaration. History proves it was a huge mistake
Britain should apologize for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday.
Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly because of the Balfour Declaration in which Britain said it favored the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine but that this should not undermine the rights of others living there.
“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,” Abbas said. “This is the least Great Britain can do.”
The British mission to the United Nations had no immediate comment.
Abbas raised the 1917 declaration – named for Arthur Balfour, then the British foreign secretary – in the context of other milestones, including the 1948 U.N. General Assembly resolution partitioning Palestine into two states and the 1967 war when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking a short time later at the annual gathering of world leaders, derided Abbas for focusing on the declaration and alluded to the possibility of the Palestinians suing Britain for it.
“President Abbas just attacked from this podium the Balfour Declaration. He is preparing a lawsuit against Britain for that declaration from 1917. That’s almost 100 years ago. Talk about being stuck in the past,” Netanyahu said.
An online video depicts Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki reading a speech on behalf of Abbas in which he asks the Arab Summit meeting in July to support the Palestinians in the preparation of a legal case against the British government over the declaration.
MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS
The mutual recriminations in Thursday’s speeches underlined the low expectations for any revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. As it happened, the sole speaker between the two Middle East neighbors was the prime minister of Norway, where the secret Israeli-Palestinian peace talks took place leading to the 1993 Oslo accords.
The central issues to be resolved in the conflict include borders, the future of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which most nations regard as illegal, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.
Peace talks last collapsed in 2014 and there are few hopes for a resumption anytime soon in part because of Israeli anger at Palestinian attacks and Palestinian criticism of Israel’s construction of settlements on occupied land where Palestinians want to establish a state.
The Balfour Declaration states: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors 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,” it said.
Critics argue that Arabs were in the majority at the time and that the declaration failed to adequately take that into account.
In his speech, Netanyahu excoriated the United Nations for routinely passing resolutions critical of Israel, saying: “The U.N., begun as a moral force, has become a moral farce.”
He said this would change as nations increasingly seek Israeli cooperation on terrorism, cyber-security, intelligence-sharing and areas such as health and agriculture.
He invited Abbas to speak at Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, saying he would “gladly” come to Ramallah to speak at the Palestinian Legislative Council.
It was unclear if his offer was meant seriously. The Palestinian parliament has not met since 2007 and the first Arab leader to make a speech at the Knesset, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1977, was assassinated in 1981 after making peace with Israel.
(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy at the United Nations, Luke Baker and Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Howard Goller)
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