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Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
Wait,What! bedouins are not Palestinians??
I guess only when Israelis dismantle their unsafe building shacks they are…….
“The contradiction between the letter of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the policy of the Allies is even more flagrant in the case of the independent nation of Palestine than in that of the independent nation of Syria. For, in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country. The four great powers are committed to Zionism and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land. In my opinion that is right. What I have never been able to understand is how it can be harmonised with the Anglo-French declaration, the Covenant, or the instructions to the commission of Enquiry… In fact, so far as Palestine is concerned, the powers have made no statement of fact that is not admittedly wrong, and no declaration of policy which, at least in the letter, they have not always intended to violate.”
(Arthur James Balfour, August 1919)
Somehow, not sure Bedouins identify as Palestinians.
Ha, Englishmen concerned for the wishes of original inhabitants of anywhere………hart-melting indeed.
Of course no Arab or Muslim would freely let jews have equal rights.
Palestinian Arab settlers shoot indigenous Bedouins