Israel and The Balfour Declaration in 1917?

Question

To what extent is The Balfour Declaration of 1917 responsible for the world present middle eastern Conflict?

How would today's world be if it had not been drawn up?

Further in formation can be found at the following link

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P.RtCqAicqrDMQ1GPBBGhFtrDw--?cq=1&p=89

Thank you in advance for all polite answers:-))

Answer 1

It enjoys the status of primary responsibility. obviously,the brits needed a war loan from Lord Rothschild and today we have nothing but death and suffering as rich jews sit there like Lords of the Land,killing at will.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The Balfour Declaration was an official statement issued on behalf of the British government in 1917, announcing its support in principle of a proposed home for the Jewish people in Palestine.  It was drafted by British Foreign Minister Arthur J. Balfour in concert with prominent Jewish leaders and the British cabinet and was issued by Balfour in the following communication to the 2nd Baron Rothschild on November 2, 1917:

"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 views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours 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."

This declaration, which Zionists interpreted as a promise for a Jewish state in Palestine, was formally approved by representatives of the Allied governments at Versailles in 1919 and was the basis of the League of Nations mandate for Palestine.

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John Darby, whose Biblical teachings as to Israel being restored to their land influenced Balfour and others in the British government at the time, wrote this:

"A very clear prophecy of Israel's condition in the last days is contained in Isaiah 18.  They shall be restored by means of some powerful nation, outside the limits of their then national relationships; but Jehovah stands apart from His own relationship with them, though ordering all things.  Then, when Israel shall begin to bud as a vine in the land, they shall be given up as a prey to the nations.  Nevertheless in that time they shall be brought as an offering to Jehovah, and shall themselves bring an offering too."

From Synopsis of the Books of the Bible, by J. N. Darby.

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At a Bible prophecy conference (October, 1999), IDF Colonel Yehuda Levy, retired editor of the Jerusalem Post, had this to say:

"...  In the end, I believe that Israel has not had it yet, unfortunately.  We have to be prepared for the next war, whenever it will or it may come.  Because in the basis of our reality, it remains that the Arab world still does not agree with the existence of Israel in the heart of the Middle East.  They will talk peace with us as long as they will be convinced that we are too strong to be beaten on the battlefield.  And believe me that Israel is strong, but it can be never strong enough, without, of course, trusting our God and trusting the very vital support of the American people and the American Christians who are doing what you're doing on a daily basis, and I'm thankful for that.  God bless you all."

http://www.plymouthbrethren.com/balfour....

I don't think anyone would dispute that many Arabs would like to see the Israelites pushed into the Mediterranean Sea. Conflict between these two groups goes back 3,000 or more years. I don't hink you can rule out the need or desire for oil as a basis for much conflict in the Middle East today.

Answer 5

I guess this means Mel Gibson was right after all.

Answer 6

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how are you?

You've a very interesting blog ... I'm gonna read it in these days!

Bye

Answer 7

I agree with the first respondent.  This in-fighting has been going on for for centuries.  Israel's hostile neighbors would do well to understand that as technology progresses, the west will someday move away from oil as a basis of their economies.  And when that day comes -- even to a lesser degree than complete independence, countries like the U.S. will stop taking interest in their affairs leaving Israel a free hand to do as needed to secure its sovereignty.

Answer 8

The entire Holy Land region  -Syria,Palestine,Lebanon and western Jordan - would be a single entity with a healthy economy and a stable social structure. We would not be on the brink of a nuclear war against Iran,nor would the people of Palestine be subject to relentless brutality,victimization and humiliation; Christianity would still be thriving in Palestine - and the Anglo-Saxon/American power bloc would not be the understandable object of disgust and fear that it currently is throughout the Near East.

Answer 9

The Jewish obsession with their own exclusive heritage would have led them to stir up conflict somewhere or other even if the blundering idiot British hadn't decided to give away somebody elses country. Jewish history is based on conquest, banditry and genocide. Envious of the wealth accumulated by the first agricultural collectives in Jericho they raided and ransacked that city and having acquired it had nowhere else to go and nothing better to do than become the farmers they had slaughtered. Hence they acquired wealth beyond their nomadic contemporaries and forebears whilst retaining the taste for conquest and bloodshed that led David to slaughter or "put to the ban" every man woman and child in the land of Canan. Judaism is the ultimate racism, its an exclusive club that affords rights and respect to none but themselves. Israel is a blight on the planet that would have happened sooner or later with or without British help.

Answer 10

British occupation back then found hard resistance in that area, just like US in Iraq and Afghanistan. Planting a virus was a tactical move to keep the crack in Arab and Muslim world and keep the occupation...

Balfor declaration is responsible for the present middle eastern conflict. I don't know how would it all end if this deceleration was never made...

Nice post John and interesting blog

Answer 11

Taking the Bible stance, the land was given to the Hebrew, but they had to fight back then to take it from those who lived on it, so in reality they stole or won it in war, as they did in '47, '48 and '49. The British with backing from the League of  Nations opened the door for the battles which are now being fought.

It would not have mattered where the Jews had decided to settle, there would have been someone displaced and it would have been war in any other area.

I have nothing against the Jewish, Islamics, Christians or anyone else, but when a people are living on a section of land for any number of years and another comes in to take it, war is going to break out and the price will be paid.