Palestine condemns 100th anniversary of Balfour Declaration

'The British Prime Minister Theresa May's Oct 18 address in House of Lords, in which she referred to establishing the Zionist regime and having high-profile relations with that regime, indicates that even 100 years after Balfour Declaration, London does not recognize Palestinian people,' the statement reads.

'The UK act shows that the colonial and racist ideology still exists in London. Unfortunately, we face a position by the UK which is not what London should hold in the 21st century,' read the statement.

'The UK is not willing to shoulder the responsibility of the mistakes they have made and crimes they have committed against Palestinians in the past.'

The Balfour Declaration was a letter written in 1917 to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community and also a British Jewish MP, by the then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour.

In the letter, Balfour wrote that the British government “view 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 …”

Many believe that the letter was the birth point of the Zionist regime.

Thus, with betrayal of Palestinian natural rights on the part of global powers, the fake Zionist regime was established in May, 1948.

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