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Sunday 5 November 2023

Britain’s Policy of Deceit – It’s Time To Set The Record Straight.

 Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made in Britain. During the First World War, contradictory promises were made to Jewish and Arab leaders that have led to a hundred years of hostility and an intractable political stalemate today. “Palestine was a twice-promised land, and due to “dishonest dealings” has a moral responsibility to be an active participant in finding a future in which both Israelis and Palestinians can be enabled to flourish,” says a former Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard , who adds “If both Israelis and Palestinians are to come through their antipathy and thrive together, then some international player needs to step up. No nation has more moral responsibility than the UK.”

Britain’s handling of the status of Palestine has “long been a matter of shameful obfuscation,”. according to John Pritchard in his review of Dr. Peter Shambrook’s book “Policy of Deceit, Britain and Palestine 1914-1939” a “forensic analysis of primary sources in this country’s dealings with Arab leaders.”

“The main problem was that in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, Britain made a promise to the Zionist Organisation that was incompatible with the promise to the Arabs.” Says John Pritchard, “The letter, written by Arthur, later Lord, Balfour, promised to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine as long as “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. Britain’s failure in regard to this latter proviso is patent to this day.” he added....<<<Read More>>>...