Jerusalem

A key document, its centenary currently being "celebrated" is the Balfour Declaration:

Here's the text in full:

Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours,

Arthur James Balfour​

 

I have a right to my home because I am Cherokee. You are a land thief. Leave! No one in the USA has ANY degree of moral standing to say Israel is occupying anything.

 

Sounds to me that you are Ignorant of the subject at hand.

 

And about 2/3 of the land supposed to go to Israel went to Arabs.

 

Trans Jordan is their home. Arafat even said that. You ever studied his "civil war" with Jordan.

 

Right, well you of all people ought to understand the ordeal of the Palestinians

 

There was no 'Israel' back then.

 

No. Pre-1948 Palestine was their home. Why the heck should they move as a result of ethnic cleansing, anymore than your people should have moved as the result of Jackson's ethnic cleansing?

 

Bunch of pagan terrorists.

 

Jewish home land.

 

...which, as the Declaration said, was not to prejudice the rights of the existing inhabitants

 

Ok, give us back all our land and then we will discuss Israel.

 

Careful! 20% of them were Christians - my brothers and sisters

 

That's a discussion you'll have to have with the US government; certainly you should be compensated for its loss

 

I don't want compensated, I want you gone.

 

Bit difficult as I'm not there...

 

"You" meaning white people. You being from England, the great Emperialistic England, the England that fought tooth and nail to keep its empire, have no moral high ground on the Palestinian issue. Your imperialism caused much of the mess in the first place.

 

Agreed with you there.

 

When has Muslim rage ever stopped?

 

When King David went into Jerusalem there was not a Palestinian or a Muslim in existence.