(Palestinian Media Watch) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - An integral part of the Palestinian Authority's "narrative" is its claim that the creation of Israel was nothing more than an act of Western colonization. PA leaders often claim there was a secret plan formulated by British Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to plant "a foreign body in the middle of the people of the Arab nation in order to fragment its solidarity, steal its resources, and prevent its revival." According to the PA, this is the sole reason for the establishment of Israel. Yet, similar to many other parts of the PA narrative, the claim regarding the Campbell-Bannerman conspiracy is a complete lie lacking any factual or evidentiary basis. In fact, honest Muslim-Arab scholars admit that no such document exists. Prof. Dr. Mohsen Mohammad Saleh, who heads the Al-Zaytouna Center for Studies and Consultations in Lebanon, sought to determine the origins of the "Campbell-Bannerman document" but reported in 2017 that he "found no trace or source of it!" Salah exposes how Dr. Anis Sayegh, "one of the leading researchers in modern Palestinian history, and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Research Center between 1966 and 1976," spent a whole month in the British National Archives, the British Museum library, and Cambridge University where Campbell-Bannerman had studied and deposited his entire private documents collection, as well as The Times newspaper archives, but found nothing about the document. The writer is the Head of Legal Strategies for Palestinian Media Watch.
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