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Palestinian Campaign vs. Balfour Shows Hostility to Jewish State Undimmed after 100 Years
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - The Arab world opposed the Balfour Declaration from day one in 1917, opposed the UN partition plan, and sought to destroy the State of Israel in 1948. And on Monday, a senior member of the PLO formally launched a year-long campaign designed "to remind the world and particularly Britain that they should...atone for the big crime Britain committed against the Palestinian people." The Palestinians' new campaign shows an undimmed hostility to the very notion of Jewish sovereignty anywhere in the holy land. Here we still are, a century later, with the Palestinian leadership branding as a "crime" the start of a process that, had they accepted it, would long since have given them statehood. This is not Hamas talking. This is the supposed moderate, mainstream Palestinian leadership. When Netanyahu tells the international community that the root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the settlement enterprise, as the Palestinians claim, but rather the perpetual refusal of the Palestinian leadership and populace to internalize the Jewish people's right to sovereignty anywhere in the holy land, the Palestinians themselves provide ongoing confirmation. Palestinian leaders are telling the world that their opposition to our state in any borders remains greater than their desire for their own independent entity.