“Former French PM: Creation of Israel by Balfour Declaration a Historic Mistake”:
Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an “abnormal case in the world”, describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a “historic mistake”.
Rocard, who is also a well-known member of the French Socialist Party, was delivering a lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on June 16, in which he said that the Balfour promise England gave to the Jews to create a national homeland for them in Palestine was a “mistake”.
He also described the Israeli state as a “unique and abnormal condition because it was created with a promise, and that millions of Jews gathered from all around the world, creating an entity that continues to pose a threat to its neighbors until today.”
Rocard also drew attention to the fact that Israel was also historically created on a racist basis, depending on armed conflict to set its borders. Rocard referred to the colonization of the Arab world, of which his country was involved in, as the main reason behind the current state of violence and conflict in the Middle East.
However, Rocard warned that delaying a peace agreement between the Arab states and Israel would “greatly increase violence in the region,” pointing out that the long-demanded reforms in the Arab states stemmed from the inside, not imposed by outside forces.
“Peace must spring from a religious base
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Dear Europe,
We’re sorry to be any trouble to you. What say you we just come back and you promise not to kill us? ‘K?
Thaaaanks.
The Jews
Sounds like “Cycle of violence” is a favorite to win this year’s Tour.
(tagged to Gordons letter)
P.S. Next time you fire up the “Kill the Jews” thingy, we’re using our nukes…
What’s this…a nation with borders created and secured by violence? You mean like, oh, I dunno…the entirety of Europe?
And…wait, what’s this? A nation created by mandate of the United Nations? Boy, they’ve sure been doing their best to make up for that mistake, haven’t they?
In all seriousness–Rocard is right when he says that colonization is the root of many of the troubles in the Arab world. We’re seeing the end result of the Europeans barging in, attempting to turn a bunch of disparate tribes with little concept of “nation-state” into nation-states, and then buggering off when the whole mess blew up in their faces…leaving us to pick up the pieces while they salve their collective conscience with “diplomacy.”
I whored more–I mean, I wrote more here.
If anyone has access to a college library, I recommend having a look at the book, Stars and Sand: Jewish Notes by Non-Jewish Notables, edited by Joseph L. Baron. It came out in 1943, in mid-Holocaust. It is a collection of excerpts of books, essays, lectures and such throughout history, mostly lauding the contributions of the Jews, and pleading for humane treatment of them. There are many earnest pleas for a Jewish homeland, from the 19th century on.
Sometimes I think the creation of Israel was a mistake, and that we should have invited all the Jews to the real homeland of every oppressed people around the world… the United States of America.
That would have been a real win-win situation.