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The Balfour Declaration and Failings in Palestinian Leadership


(Guardian-UK) Mark Regev - Following the 1917 Balfour Declaration, Sharif Hussein, leader of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman empire, urged the Arabs to "welcome the Jews as brethren and cooperate with them for the common welfare." Those wise words were ignored by the Palestinian Arab leadership then, and continue to be ignored by President Mahmoud Abbas now. Britain repeatedly put forward proposals that would have led to Palestinian independence. Even when, in 1937, Britain tabled a partition plan offering the Jews a mere 15% of the land, the Palestinian leadership refused, believing that negating my people's right to self-determination took precedence over sovereignty for their own people. The writer is Israel's ambassador to the UK.
2017-11-03 00:00:00
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