109 years since the Balfour Declaration, Palestine lives displacement and settlement

On the 109th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the article reviews its ongoing repercussions on Palestinians through settlement, displacement, and land confiscation in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and destruction and displacement in Gaza. It notes that the declaration resulted from negotiations between Britain and the Zionist Organization, and received prior American approval and international support, ignoring the existence and rights of the Palestinian people.

On the 109th anniversary of the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the article reviews its ongoing repercussions on the Palestinian reality, from continued settlement, displacement, and land confiscation in the West Bank and Jerusalem, to the widespread destruction and displacement in the Gaza Strip. The article notes that the declaration was the result of negotiations lasting about three years between the British government and the World Zionist Organization, which presented its project as a tool to protect Britain's strategic interests in the Middle East. It mentions that the draft declaration received prior approval from US President Woodrow Wilson, before France, Italy, and Japan announced their official support between 1918 and 1919. The article emphasizes that the declaration was not merely a transient political stance, but an official announcement of the adoption of the Zionist project in Palestine, and that it ignored the existence of the Palestinian people and their historical and political rights, merely referring to them as the 'non-Jewish communities'.