Israel Was Never a Legitimate State

In a recent NYT article (28/02/24) the American Jewish journalist Mr. Thomas Friedman raised the…

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Balfour Declaration of 1917

To begin with Israel’s never had legitimacy to start with. The Balfour Declaration by the British Foreign Secretary “Is a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority of Jewish population. Wikipedia.

Britain was never the owner of Palestine nor had any legitimacy to grant such promise belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Balfour Declaration will always remain lacking any legitimacy whatever under all circumstance.

The German Holocaust of the Jews of Europe is a German Crime, not Palestinian. Nazi Germany and subsequent German governments and the German people will always own the horrific systematic murder of the Jews and as such the crime of one people should never be the excuse or the “legitimacy” to for the Palestinian to pay the price of the German crimes. It is unfortunate that till today Germany feels its rights to support Israel especially its genocidal war on Gaza as a way of “compensating” whitewashing its crimes in the Holocaust.