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The Balfour Myth is Garbage
Palestinian Self-Determination is Not Recognized in The Western Narrative
Why is this piece of history important? Let’s consider how this Balfour Declaration was written, so what? If you believe in democracy, then it is worthless for what it stands for, as clearly the British-Israeli myth of this is essential to them and needs to be critically deconstructed by rational minds.
The great-nephew of Lord Balfour, the writer, saw it hanging on the back of his uncle’s bathroom door. He downplays the document again by saying the foreign secretary casually tossed this note over breakfast. Once more, a foreign secretary tossing a note during tea and bacon while finishing his toast somehow becomes the basis for Israel claiming their right over Palestine? It already sounds like nonsense, hardly a real declaration to base a country on.
Now the rest of the interview is just a lot of gaslighting about the importance of the British Empire and the supposed ‘real’ reasons. It was a “humanitarian gesture.” A gesture? Yeah, that sounds like a genuine reason.
But then he dismisses the Empire’s arrogance, which can only come from an aggressive, tyrannical, world-conquering Anglo-Saxon mindset. We learn that British civility is just a mask that covers up their deep hostility. He then points…
