UK ambassador: Balfour would support 'two state solution'

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Source: The Jerusalem Post
November 07, 2006

Britain's ambassador to Israel, Tom Phillips, wants Israelis to believe that Lord Arthur Balfour - the Christian Zionist politician who helped resurrect the Jewish national homeland by drafting the 'Balfour Declaration' - would today support the global effort to create an Arab state on ancient Jewish lands.

According to Phillips, who was addressing a meeting of the British-Israel Commonwealth Association in Tel Aviv Monday, "if Lord Balfour were here today, he would see such a solution as the right way in the modern world to achieve the balance he sought in his declaration."

The envoy's speculation was based on the text of the Balfour Declaration:

"His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" provided that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

What Phillips failed to acknowledge, however, is the declaration never referred to the national rights of those non-Jewish communities.

This is simply because, at that time (1917), no other nation existed inside the Land of Israel.

The people today universally called "the Palestinian nation" was a non-entity before the 1960s.

Notwithstanding this inconvenient fact, Phillips and the government he represents are determined to see halved that part of Israel's land currently under Jewish control, there to bring another Arab state into the world.

The fact that this will be done at the expense of the hated Jewish people, who will be even more vulnerable once "Palestine" has been born, is of little apparent consequence to Whitehall.

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