The situation of the Palestinian people is very serious for many reasons, perhaps the most complex of the British people, following the Balfour Declaration in 1917. For many reasons. It was very serious before 7 October 2023, and the subsequent brutal Israeli attack has further worsened, especially in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Life or death, life. On the one hand, from that time of the Balfour to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, especially in the United Kingdom, and it was supported by France. Israel was born with the help of the Soviet Union and the United States, and in the last 75 years it has become a giant in the shadow of the latter.
Balfour's expression in Wikipedia translation is: " His Majesty ' s Government endorses the establishment in Palestine of a native national country for the Jewish people and will make the best efforts to contribute to that goal, clearly stating that nothing will be done that could harm the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights of Jews and the political status of any other country. "
It's implausible to imagine how a six-line expression can produce such itching. In these lines there were two keys: on the one hand, it recognizes the right of the Jews to be “a Jewish people” in Palestine. On the other hand, it points out that this cannot harm non-Jewish communities living in this territory. That being said, it seems that the vast majority was Jewish in Palestine, and that the Palestinians were only small communities, but just the opposite: the Palestinians were 94% and the Jews were those small communities. The most serious thing is that the declaration did not name the Palestinians either.
Balfour allowed Zionism to create a state and Israel built in Palestine a people that previously did not exist, the “Jewish people”, the only people that approved the Israeli Constitution in 2018, which does not recognize national rights to the Palestinians. In 2012, the UN approved the Palestinian state, but Israel did not, so there is no Palestinian state. This is the measure of Israel's strength. But how do you make a landless state? That is the miracle that the theory of the two states that are still flying will have to carry out.
A century later, the Palestinians have not managed to turn the Balfour Declaration back, but in this anguish there is still a halo of hope: after the colonization and oppression of a century, the capacity for Palestinian resistance is alive. And it is time to write Balfour's reverse statement, for example the Gaza Declaration: "In addition to the rights of resistance and self-defence, Palestinians and Israeli Jews have the right to live together and in peace." Now it is not possible, but perhaps within three decades now it is; the State of Israel was also born three decades from Balfour.
