The Balfour Declaration's impact, 100 years on
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- The Balfour Declaration was penned 100 years ago, but its legacy still resonates in the Middle East today. How did a letter, only 67-words long, ignite 100 years of conflict?
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100 years ago this week Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary, penned a letter that would change the face of the Middle East. The letter published on November 2nd 1917 led to the creation of the State of Israel and would spark almost a century of conflict.
The American Colony Hotel has hosted guests in Jerusalem for over a century. This place has a unique perspective on the region's history because it's played a part in it. Presidents and peacemakers, spies and journalists, use this space, often in secret, to hatch plans and discuss the future.
The hotel sits close to the former border separating East from West Jerusalem. Today, the whole city is under Israeli rule but Jews and Arabs are still divided.
This place is a haven from the troubles all around. Jeremy and Ahmad have both worked here for more than 30 years. Jeremy Berkovits is the hotel's chief financial officer. He is an Israeli. Ahmad Shakarneh is the head of housekeeping. He is a Palestinian.
Balfour's letter has had a profound impact on both of these men. They live on opposite sides of Israel's security barrier. The letter’s crucial clause read “His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. But it also warned “it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish communities in Palestine”.
Here in the hotels archive Jeremy and Ahmad view the letters legacy very differently. The letter was a declaration of support for Zionists who wanted to create a Jewish state. In the carve up of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War the League of Nations gave Britain a mandate to rule Palestine. But the Arabs who had been living in Palestine for centuries turned increasingly to resistance and violence, culminating in a revolt in 1936.
As they crushed the uprising, the British tried to win over the Arabs by restricting Jewish ambitions. Jewish anger also turned violent. The British gave up and handed the problem over to the United Nations. In 1947, the UN voted to partition Palestine - but the Arabs rejected this and fighting broke out.
As the last British soldiers left Palestine in May 1948, the moment had come for the Jews. They declared the State of Israel. Neighbouring Arab countries invaded immediately. In the armistice of 1949, Israel and Arab states divided up the land but there was no Palestinian state, just two regions controlled by Egypt and Jordan, now known as the West Bank and Gaza.
An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were pushed out of their homes. They called this the Nakba - the Catastrophe.
Since then there have been wars, uprisings, terrorist attacks and diplomatic deals. Nothing has brought lasting peace or a State for the Palestinians. Since the war of 1967, many Palestinians now live in the West Bank under permanent Israeli occupation, cut off by the Israeli security barrier. They have autonomy in big cities and towns but are surrounded by Jewish settlements. Others are locked away in the Gaza Strip the scene of repeated wars.
A century on from Lord Balfour's letter his 67 words have left a profound but mixed legacy.
The conflict between Arab and Jew remains intractable. The Balfour Declaration helped to create Israel, but the state of Palestine is not yet born
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Hat off to the person who decided to make this through the eyes of two managers of the American Colony Hotel, and also to Messrs Berkovits and Shakarneh for participating.
1. Samuel Herbert Memorandum 1915
2. McMahon-Hussein Correspondence 1915-1916; The Arab Revolt 1916
3. Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916
4. Balfour Declaration 1917
They'er all related.
In 1914, after lobbying from Jewish community in Britain, the British government agreed to create a Jewish home, in Palestine area. But for 100s of years, Turkish-Ottoman Empire ruled that region (including Palestine), so the Brits came up with the idea to ask the Arabs (also living in Palestine for 100s of years) to fight the Ottoman, in exchange for their own land. The Arabs fought and won, but the Brits instead gave the land to Jewish people.
So part of the problem is, it was build by deception.
@@itseveryday8600 I thought that in 1936 the Brits proposed a 2state solution with 80% of the land for the Arabs and 20% of the land for the Jews?
@@itseveryday8600 thats lie
@@itseveryday8600 so are we just gona conveniently miss out the fact that the ottomans & mufti sided with the nazis & lost 🤔
@@snowwhite7704 what are you even talking about? Did you read the time line? This all happened way before Hitlar. He wasn't even in politics during 1915 ~1917. The arabs had a pact with the British, who they fought with against the Ottoman empire & won, this war was over by 1917.
Promising something that you don't own to someone who doesn't deserve..
Don't deserve? Brother our ancestors had built that place
@@dorbitan2935 but its still own land ... read the history mate
@@dorbitan2935 The moussad killed the Egyptian writer Jamal Himdan cause he proved in his books that you’re not the same jews in the fairy tale books
@@dorbitan2935 you mean when they were in euorpe
@@dorbitan2935 thousands of years ago and you don't even know if your ancestors were there. People who shared your religion yes, your ancestors, not necessarily. People lived there and have been for centuries. Some are probably descendants of Muslim converts or Christian converts.
I swear it’s literally always the British fault
Exactly. Look at every place they went to and the mess they did. Iraq and kuwait, india / pakistan, china/taiwan, palestine.
That's British Imperialism for you. The saying "the sun never sets on British soil" demonstrates the magnitude of what Britain did to the majority of the world.
I'm Irish I hear ya ✌
Which should mean the English should not be selling arms to Israel and should be using their influence at every chance possible to atone for their sins but its the opposite. No wonder England can't win the world cup. It has the curse of millions who England has occupied and plundered. Today Palestinians are paying with their blood.
No it is not always the fault of the British. But this one is of lesser of their faults but nevertheless has to acknowledged by the British.
They created a state that didn't need to exist on a land already occupied to be a state for population to be transferred from Europe.
Colonisation full stop.
British imperialism REALLY caused so much lasting conflict.
It worked very well for fifty years of sharing with trust, but the influx of European refugees during the forties unbalanced the number of voters. I suggest you look at the role of Zionism in the takeover by stealth.
it would have been the best for all, that the british would have been away from these places, yes?
You miss the point of colonialism. So easy to criticize it. Yet in one form or another, colonialism is always with us - especially including Muslim beduin coming to Palestine after the Muslim conquest.
British colonialism freed the world of slavery, caused industrial revolutions en masse, and stopped countless barbaric practices. Some British men were greedy and violent, some righteous. Islamic colonialism as classically failed - and with it, created nothing :D
@@jayline3606 how did it free the world of slavery? british colonies were full of slaves and the british along witht the Portuguese were the largest transporters of slaves? Which barbaric practices were stopped? India and Ireland faced huge famines caused by British colonialism
The Palestinians shouldn’t be punished for the crimes of the Nazis. It wasn’t up to the British to partition the land. Palestine didn’t belong to the British.
The British Empire: Using divide and conquered at it's finest throughout the world.
they (the British empire) did here in America
What people shouldnt forget though, is that the British did this under the influence of the Rotschilds. Look up the Balfour declaration. One of its authors is a rotschild
Missing point:
Why did Balfour offer British support for the zionist cause?
A historian unable or reluctant to ask the essential historical question cannot be taken seriously.
Because of Chaim Weizmann - he singlehandedly saved Britain in WWI by developing the Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol fermentation process to produce acetone, a solvent required to produce the smokeless explosive Cordite. Without him, the British would have run out of ammunition. Weizmann is considered the father of industrial fermentation - he was later offered the (ceremonial) position as the first President of Israel in 1949
@@iphoneiphone9079 sooo, the British decided to gift him a country?
@@ahmadzenji6559 it wasn’t “the British” per se, it was the Zionist bankers who were behind this. Obviously Balfour had to sign it, but I am unclear if he was a Zionist or whether he was bribed/rewarded or “persuaded” but 2 world wars were fought to make the creation of Israel happen and was planned out by the Zionist bankers
Benjamin Freedman seems to think he knows :)
The Jewish Lord gave the British empire a loan of 12 million ounce of gold in the war and before that his grandfather helped the British buying Egypt share in Suez canal
So they occupied the land based on Religion not on origin ethnicity or ancestry. Wow
A few things:
1. It wasn't an occupation
2. Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrachi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians all derive 50-60% of their DNA from ancient Israel/Canaan, so Jews do have origin through ethnicity
3. They moved there because of persecution they faced (not for religion or ethnicity)
@@yonboi6644 it is an accupation just denying it won't change the truth
@@yonboi6644 2- most of the jews now are mostly european so few are Actually from that land, then there are black jews man , like whaaat??
they didn't build this place. They were there with every other ethnicity That already lived there, they didn't own the place, they weren't kings or queens. They didn't own anything they owned their homes only, tiny little Neighbourhoods , And let me tell you this.
Jews don't produce that much. So those who still have a drop of jewish blood are so little in number
@@user-cd9bm1bo5t Not the entirety of Israel
@@user-cd9bm1bo5t I wouldn't call immigration occupation.
Peace is rich man's victory
amit krishnani How? Common man is the most affected by war. Rich man only loses his assets temporarily.
Potated Human read the comment again
amit krishnani ??? Isn't peace better for both?
Potated Human true, but it's idealistic,
Realistically it won't happen, govwwnts don't do anything until there is scope for corruption or extreme emergency
because as we all know the poor love to be silenced, harassed and mascaraed by someone else. It would appear that no sane person likes war. Other than armed, dealers who are rich.
Nobody asks what the British received in payment for the Balfour agreement? Surely the British didn't give the land away for free. What did they receive as payment?
100 years loan of poor innocent souls.
Getting America to join the world war against Germany
@@ahmedfelhi5999BINGO!
The entire banking industry
Getting ride of the jews
The world’s most tragic no win situation. Sadly.
I wonder what would would have happened if they sent them to a rural part of the US, like Montana, Colorado, or Alaska. Or sent them to Canada. Or tried buying the land of modern day Isreal
Was the land not given to them by the English no? Why would America have to give them some land?
@@darraghkelly1744 there were several locations considered at the time, they ended giving this one.
btw it wasnt thers to give in the first place...
@@abdul5814 no they want this one
@@abdul5814Ofc it was the right of victors to give away the land they won thru war. Unless you want to suggest that Mohammad, the Rashidun caliphate and all subsequent muslim empires did wrong by confiscating land from Christians who fled from war and giving it to Arab soldiers.
I can't believe I got a kids bop 36 ad on this
“nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” So Israel did not honour it's agreement under the terms of Balfour Declaration, and that seems to have set the pattern for the illegal settlements, the extra-judicial killings by Mossad and the IDF, and the brutal oppression of Palestinians under an apartheid policy of ethnic cleansing.
Israel was not a signatory. Under the mandate, nothing WAS done to prejudice the Arab population. However the Arabs saw things differently, due to their own prejudices and bigotry. Israel came into existence as a necessity. The alternative was the violent eradication of the Jewish community in Palestine. Would that have been a better in your opinion?
@@hagaiabeliovich4276 You are a liar, period,
@@RobPires well said
There's no apartheid in Israel, and it's by far the country in the middle east with most human rights for Arabs.
The Mossad only takes part in assassination of high Hamas ranking terrorists (the fact that you even mention them is weird and suggest you have poor understanding of Israel).
And the IDF only targets terrorists.
Also, it's beyond absurd that you say there is ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, while their population is growing rapidly and Israel has some of the most capable militaries in the world.
Overall you seem very brainwashed and have a very poor understanding of the conflict. The only point you bring up which is somewhat reasonable is the settlements that began after '67 when the Arabs started another war and lost again (clearly they don't want to coexist).
Shut up u fuking backing murderes ALLAH will give us victory 1 day back
So unfair to the Palestinians.. What did they do to deserve all this suffer for 100 years!!
Many would argue that THAT IS EXACTLY how Jews suffered on being exiled from their home (some) and others made to suffer when Arabs went out to conquer Israel (which did not belong to the Arabs in the first place).
History does not forget.
Colonialism all over again. It's not knowledge that we lack.
It's even worse than colonialism because they didn't even fight for the land themselves, it was illegitimately given to them at the expense of Palestinians.
@@ibnfulan9773 hey welcome to the history of the world. Strong nations take over land and do what they want with it.
@@thedukeofswellington1827 maybe not on the world stage but in the Middle East it’s arguably one of the strobgets
I have given shelter to a persecuted
homeless friend in my house. After a while, the friend forced me out from my house!
Then I stand at the door of my house crying for my house, trying to get back my home and then all around me are telling that I am a terrorist, I am not belong to my home anymore!
The so called friend is #Israel
And I am #Palestine
#Jerusalem_is_palestin_capital
Are you serious? The Arabs took it from the Jews in the first place! The West bank is Judea and Samaria FFS!!
@@dehe82 hahahah what a typical Zionist liar you are. No Arab has ever taken a Jewish home. The ones that did were the Romans. Before you even existed. Before the Khazars converted to Judaism.
@@kal_ash_nikov "no arab has ever taken a Jewish home"... NOW who's the liar?
@@dehe82 where's the proof? Of your claims? Are you one of those people who will quote the Bible? Because the book told you it was a Holy land? Another one of your made up stories? Man made by human and made to use to steal others land? Where you are born is your country. With the logic you're using the whole World belonged to Africans then because all the DNA proofs the evidence that it came from Africa so why don't you go back to your homeland? The place everyone came from : Africa. Atleast these claims have proof of evidence than a book that is man made, that book is better called as the book of conspiracy theorist. Everything thought out of assumptions and was taken as the truth.
Vlad Igor history. NOT religion. There’s your proof
The US has vast land, why not declare a place for the Jewish over there??
The Arab world has vast land, why not declare a place for the Palestinians over there?
@@eretria-amorosa
1. Not as vast as US
2. Currently the Palestinians are in Arab land, but being evicted from the Arab land, so back to point no 1.
✌🏼
@@utubebeena Also, if Arabs dislike Jews, why move them there when there were plenty of them in America already, a place where they'd be accepted much faster than the Arab world. That would be my 3rd point.
Saudi Arabia has always been there.
That's where the Arabs came from. They left their land there, and went to conquer another land and people.
Mecca is a very holy site for the Muslims and Arabs, and the Kabaa.
It is only fitting that Saudi Arabia take back the people, their descendants that conquered Israel, back into their land of Saudi Arabia.
As for USA, that is not where the Jews came from. The Jews came from Israel, and should go back to Israel.
@@utubebeenawhat is Arab land? That can only be Saudi Arabia. Israel is not Arab land. Saudi Arabia is. You have only to consider the word "Arabia". Remember that the Arabs went on a war rampage to conquer land? They even conquered Israel, which did not belong to them.
You cannot go out and just steal land? The Jews are returning to WHAT WAS STOLEN from them!
How would you feel if they suddenly gave a big portion of America back to the native america s
atrackbtrack what “they” gave as a Homeland for Jews to live without fear of massacres is a tiny piece of land, a few miles wide and mostly arid desert. The area already had a million Jews - and would absorb millions more. Arabs then invaded the tiny new country and - guess what - still didn’t recognize a “Palestinian” country. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that Arab countries gave up claim to the land as their own.
JustJonas there were almost a million Jews in Israel in 1948. 5 Arab countries plus local militias invaded Israel and were pushed back. There are now 2 million Arabs living In Israel’s. How many Jews live in Arab countries? Ethnic cleansing is what Arabs and Iranians did to Jews.
@@felixdunkel2091 less than 500 000
Except these jews are mostly from eastern Europe and have 0 relations with the land of Palestine
Yea it would bring the second mexican american war but very bad for capitalism have its Pentagon machine in business in home soil jiji
“If I don’t steal your home, someone else will steal it,” Yakob 2021
Thank you for your video!
"Weizmann (the person who pushed for the declaration) had argued that the declaration would have three effects: it would swing Russia to maintain pressure on Germany's Eastern Front, since Jews had been prominent in the March Revolution of 1917; it would rally the large Jewish community in the United States to press for greater funding for the American war effort"
"In addition to its publication in major newspapers, leaflets were circulated throughout Jewish communities. These leaflets were airdropped over Jewish communities in Germany and Austria"
Hmmm I wonder why Germans were so mad about this after the war....
WOW WHY ISNT THIS IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA
This seems fairly unbiased as it considers both perspectives... I don't like CZcams videos that often
It leaves out a lot of vital information about the Arab Israeli conflict, although is good for understanding the individuals perspective of the war.
It also leave out that isreal has offered a state to the Palestinians many times. Inexchanhge for peace and hands are slapped away.
Thomas Burton And you left out the reason the Palestinians rejected Israel's offer.
It seems unbiased to someone who doesn't know much about this but they are biased, the reason they moved there was because that is the whole goal in their ideology. No other place but there.
@@thomasburton3848 Hey I took your house and I offer you this part of it that I chose. You only get the guest bathroom and the storage room. I get both bedrooms the main bathroom the kitchen the living room and everything else. Wait but it's my house no its my house now and I offer you a part of it. If you don't agree to these terms you're not peaceful.
The fact is that no people should be exclusively awarded land on the simple basis of "we appreciate it more than them" or "our ancestors descended from there". Sure, its true that many European Jews rightfully purchased land from Arabic speaking landowners - however, if the collective Jewish intention at Israel's founding was to build a unified state WITH the local Arabic speaking (who are ethnically and religiously diverse) people, instead of WITHOUT them, then maybe the situation wouldn't have turned so politically violent. A holy site like the Cave of the Patriarchs would not be in existence today if it were not for the respect and reverence from the local Arabic speaking population (i.e. the "Palestinians").
yes, and what saddens me is that the archeological evidence shows that many Arabs and Jews lived co-operatively side by side for centuries. No dysfunctional racism or apartheid, just human beings showing mutual respect and tolerance for others
@@ashoakwillow Turns out all it took was Europeans to mess it up. First the British for handing out land that wasn't theirs, and then Jewish Europeans (after the Holocaust) moving in and, in that way Europeans have of doing, deciding someone else's land belonged to them and they could get it without purchasing it.
The Palestinians were offered their own state on day 1 which they rejected. They’ve been grappling with that stupidity ever since.
THANK YOU
“...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..” is in the Balfour Declaration, but almost never mentioned . Pity.
And the reason for the jews having nowhere to go?????
It means something was bad in British. They gave them third party land. If it was love why they do not shared their own land
Egypt closes the border with Gaza and Israel you blame the siege?
Israel is a facist state
Lol u got the point... egypt just puppet to israel
@@UltimateProHacker How? Just how?
Very interesting! Thanks Steve.
Yeah thanks esau
The stab in the back legend is not a myth. It's objectively true.
Yes, which is why it's considered "anti-Semitic." You will soon learn that is a synonym for "true."
What a nice hotel
I love how they brushed over how the Arabs came to be in the region.
Are you referring to centuries of Arab conquests, in which indigenous peoples were displaced and enslaved by the Arabs?
@@johnaweiss I'd have to watch the video again, because I left my comment a year ago and have to go to work, but probably.
@@johnaweiss Your stupidity or your racism is unbelievable. Arabs are a cultural and lingual group, not a DNA group. Arab Palestinians in the West Bank are Jewish in terms of the DNA, but to what cultural group do the choose to belong to, it is non of your business.
@@ahmadrama9802 I'd say he's referring to the fact that the Muslim caliphate empires rapidly expanded and spread the Muslim faith quite quickly by conquering nearby lands. A great example would be the Holy Land, which of course sparked the Crusades. I don't see why everyone hates the Crusades/Reconquista when in my opinion it was the Christians just taking back the land that was theirs before the Muslim conquests.
You have absolutely no clue. Arab is a cultural identity first and foremost and a genetic identity second. On average Palestinians have 60% Levantine dna.
Great report thank you.
what has been taken by force should................................ !!!
So the british colonized palestine, brought their jewish allies in place and left!
If it was really for the safety of the jewish people, why not to give them a "national home" in britain it self?!
The turks brought stabilization and peace for this area, revolts and independence movement appeared in the british period as people refused the outside invaiders.
As for the arab revolt in 1916, it was a british made movement (link below), and against the westernized government in terkey (starting in 1908), but before 1908, arabs were satisfied and accepting the turkish rule (as muslims). They were loyal citizens and served in military.
Israel is actually a continuation for western colonization of the area (images of jews being transported from europe into palestine are all over the place)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Correspondence?wprov=sfla1
Self defense for normal people means protecting civilians when at all possible. Self defense for Arab supremacists means defending Arab colonial imperialism and ideology by blowing up buses and concerts full of children to "defend honour" and put fear into their enemy. Their so called honour and supremacism is more important than human life.
Motasem Salamah the british are responsible for everything that has gone wrong in the middle east from wahabi succession to power to the rise of khomeini and the submission of arab nationalism. If the turks hadnt defeated them at gallipoli they would have split up turkey as well.
+Alexplus20 so true, what a moronic statement;
"submission of Arab nationalism"
They think any spec of dirt their camel wanders in to is now part of not only the Arab race, but an Arab mega-state with undefined and constantly expanding borders, even into Europe it now seems. Islam is nothing more than a tool of Arab conquest.
Alexplus20 shut the fuck up. Copts and yazidis are religious groups. There are arab copts and yazidis as well. So shove your divide and conquer games up your ass. Worked with TE Lawrence maybe.
(Ball)four Declaration = The Declaration For Baal
Balfour was a Satanist President of British occult society ironically In 1905, he pushed legislation aimed at preventing persecuted Jews entering Britain on the grounds they were “undesirable.”
@@wisdommorepreciousthanrubi8321 what ? 😂
Same happened in Northern Ireland ,ireland was divided
02:30 you skipped the sentence before national home for the jews :' in Palestine'
Hello : interesting video
I have just finished reading this (against our better judgement) by (Alison Weir)
If what she said is accurate *****
I am an American of European decent. My ancestors came here seeking religious, political freedom and a degree of economic prosperty.
In exchange this country wanted my loyalty. Wilson was elected primarily on the promise to keep American out of ww1.
If what this book says is true a group of Americans actively worked to get my country into that war be sure of the (Balfour Deceleration).
That war cost 200,000 American lives.
Treason was committed,
Please read the book and tell me what you think.
WOW. Yes. Treason was committed. Thank you for the book recommendation!
!a declaration made of JUSTICE
The Balfour Declaration has been read as having 68 words and not 67.
And the Palestinians still paying a high price for that decleration
With the blood of their children....with their Hope's and dreams stolen. Yes your right.
One thing I love about this channel (and the magazine in general) is that their is a certain level of sophistication in the reporting and in the people who discuss the issues. Sadly, when The Economist grows in it's viewership, you get conspiracy theories in the comments and that sophistication goes out the window. I always found that when you have a video about Israel or Palestine you people coming with conspiracy theories from viewers of RT, it always happens.
lol, what a joke
Pompous word salad. Operation Mockingbird, enough said.
@@Migger_29 Operation Mockingbird is a real thing. There is a big difference between conspiracy theory, and something like Operation Mockingbird which is reference in official documentation and made visible to the public through FIA.
Utter elitist non sensense. The Economist is nothing more than a rag, it's irrelevant in any sophisticated conversation about world events.
Wer braucht im 21.Jahrhundert immer noch suggerierte Feindbilder? Es gibt auch die Evolutionstheorie und Relativitätstheorie.
What an atrocity of epic proportions!
The UN partition plan was illegal. UN General Assembly Res181 was a recommendation and referred to UN Security Council (where UN resolutions are ratified into law) where it died. In April 1948, when the Security Council became aware that Resolution 181 was unrealistic, it abandoned it. Even IF the Council had “re-affirmed” Resolution 181, that would not render it binding. While the [Security] Council has decision making power on some subjects, it does not have the power to dispose of territory. The UN was then deliberating what to do when 'israel' unilaterally declared itself into existence.
Well unbiased documentary I must say.
Not unbiased so much as omitting important historical bits such as the Zionist terrorist bombing of the King David Hotel
which succeeded in the English exodus from Israel.
The root of the all evil started then and there!!
Isn't it funny that the Rottschilds own The Economist?
The economist should stick to things it can cover without bias, like reporting GDP figures and not try to get muddled in complicated politics/history since a half assed attempt at glorifying one of Britain's biggest blunders is shameful for such a reputable publication. So much of complicated history is untold and what is shown is squeezed into tiny animations and soundbites for bigots of both sides to use in their trolling posts. Then again it's not unusual to see Brits trying to see themselves as a superpower when they are but a poor island in the 21st Century.
It completely ignored the fact that over 20% of Israel is Palestinian.
@@brennanando the whole of israel belongs to palestine, free palestine
Desmond Alloffo although I don’t agree with the treatment of the Palestinians. History will tell you this land originally belonged to the jews. It was taken away from them long before the land was occupied by Palestinians.
Mr LW The land belonged to the Semitic Jews who lived in the region, to begin with. Over thousands of years, Jews, Christians and Muslims were able to live side by side in peace within Jerusalem. I repeat, these are indigenous Semitic people. The Jews we are seeing today are not Semitic, they are Ashkenazi and are of European descent. They have no right to be bulldozing the homes of the indigenous SEMITIC Palestinians and certainly have no grounds to drive them out of their homes. I urge you to read more. You are gravely mistaken by the fabricated history books of the west.
It's always painful for you to hear a bite of truth. And why you keep hysterically repeat the expression "it's complicated...". A bunch of European people pushed the Palestinians out of their land. They call it Colonialism in school and believe it's so simple, ask Africans and Asians about it. They will simplify it for you.
"Piece" process: Demons devouring demons. Peace is what you get when there is nothing worth fighting for.
The Mighty Empire of Great Britain has shrunk to its original size but before withdrawing from the former colonies they left behind deliberately soring problems so as to leave the independent states to keep fighting for ever.
all my homies hold extreme hatred and plot revenge on Arthur Balfour's name
The usual suspects.
Glad to see dailywatch again
Man, thats one of the cooler hotels i seen in a while
This is called might is right
UK - talk about an evil empire.
'Dear Lord Rothschild'...
😐
This video didn't include all the lobbying that Rothschild did to get Brits to create the Balfour Declaration.
it's everyday 風呂 True that 👍 it's strange seeing one man's name on a declaration to create a country 😛
Oooze Creative damn that shit be heavy 😕
tell us what rothschild did , don't be a charlatan ..................
Niall Kilkelly uncle Rothschild needs to make me rich....I'm already putting effort to get rich by looking for him and asking for some pocket money look 😂😂😂😂
“Peace Process”
Can kinda see it from both sides
Who else noticed the economist posted this video a month before Trump made the claim on Jerusalem?
Wait, was that a drawing of Muhammad?
David Corleone where
Hamas and other Islamists there will probably soon be visiting that Palestinian man who showed the cartoon.
Was it a picture of a paedophile? If yes, then it was Mohammed.
Yara iLA this guy dont actually know what they are talking about when they use the knowledge of 5 minutes from internet surfing, and act like they are smarter than a student with 5 years of islamic courses
cecil123 thats where you wrong, kiddo. Mohammad didnt never rape aisha. as she actually married but staying in her parent's house until the age of puberty.
crazy story
“Pushed out of their homes…” Forced or massacred… but dispossessed regardless.
Every child in gaza that died is a murder
Every male and female that was slaughtered by israel occupation is a murder
Think not that those who are slain and who are die in the way of defending there life's and justice in Palestine is died ....
Yes they are a live , but you understand not how are the dead in gaza a live ?
Because when the breath left their bodies , their death and their pain of it went into the heart of those that remain to continue the struggle for the freedom of the Palestinian people.
My heart beats for the Palestinian people.
Love Palestine from kenya africa.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." - Baha'u'llah
prophet (pbuh) said: Your Father is one man, Adam and your God is but one God.
Tell that to Jews who have been expelled of every single country in history....
Looks like it would take much to get these two guys beating each other
This is so sad
6:42 That guy with his head tilted looks evil !
Who the heck are the Rothschild's?!?!?!
Any of y’all here for a project
2 state resolution
Palestinians “trapped”
Well one gains & holds all the wealth, another one works for it.
When does Turkey have to give back Constantinople (Istanbul) those Christians who were run out want their homeland back too.
No mention of Lehi or bombing of the King David hotel?
Same old story British Empire divide and rule no different
Some points you did not mention 1. The Arabs did not really live here for thousands of years and never in history did there exist a Palestinian Arab state (the name "Palestine" was given by the Romans to Judah after the suppression of the Jewish revolt) 2. Jerusalem has always had a Jewish majority 3. 850,000 Jews were forcibly expelled from Arab countries after the establishment of the State of Israel - they were settled in Israel. At the time, there were exchanges of millions of people between countries (Pakistan - India / Poland, Czechoslovakia - Germany / Greece - Turkey and more) 5. Arab pogroms against Jews began long before the Balfour Declaration .
Wtf is Israel again only jewish state is Auschwitz
Palestinians aren’t really Arabs. They’re 80-95% Canaanite. Ashkenazi Jews are 30-50% Canaanite.
That Europe and american colonialiste want you to believe same as Africa they draw border and they erase History of Africa from public knowledge thé only poeple who know thé true story IS thé local to that continent
Right on our FLAG💯
No mention of Rothschild and his role.
Also, the economist brought in a house keeper were his job is on the line as the opposite sign to this argument? Really? Wtf
Here is a fact, the British armed the Zionist movement and left the arabs defenseless just how Sunnis in Iraq were defenseless when isis took over... arabs fought back by having to change the age of the king in Jordan to lunar years to make him 18 and was lead to defeat by a British general who armed the opposition. Israel just like isis had their audience in Europe to recruit fragile people who were unjustly persecuted and gave them a cause... a sick one if you ask me...
the hell the economist just learn from others and turn a blind eye to what’s real in life and learn from the alternative facts model that has been evident since the past 100 years but please don’t normalize oppression.
2:22
“Dear lord Rothschild” 🤢🤮
Jealous of a Jew with money?
What's your point?
@@Nehmi for now ,
They survived the first genocide, but did not survive the second
It wasn't just Rothschild but Herbert Samuel'
He was the first nominally-practising Jewish to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party. Samuel had promoted Zionism within the British Cabinet, beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled 'The future of Palestine'. In 1920 he was appointed as the first High Commissioner for Palestine.
If you are not aware media will manipulate your mind to consider the hero as villains and villains as hero .
Why can’t we all live together in peace, with compromise ..relationships are about compromise
OMG!!! AT 3:01, THERE IS AN IMAGE OF MOHAMMED!!!!!!! That guy was so casual when he pointed it out!
It's just a symbolic drawing.
it's an image of an Arab man. the guy gave his own interpretation in an oddly abstract way
If we are to follow the logic of who owns what territory by the timeline in history, then someone else owns something. Before palestine, it was "owned" by the jews. Before the jews, it was owned by somebody else, and so on and so forth.
With such historical logic, we can say the Chinese has the rights to this and that, Romans, Greeks, Turks, etc... It would be a convoluted geo-political claim that will just ignite much more conflict.
In current times Palestine is actually Syria but they aren't saying anything since "Palestine" is as good a barrier and scapegoat, the same way China is using North Korea as a barrier to South Korea.
The first people who ever lived in the holy land was Palestinians I think you should read more about history
so who should be blamed?
what is it with Economist and annoying music?
Peace process lol
Couldn't be more biased. Those who recieved the declaration also happen to own The Economist.
The hotel is like John Wick!
It's not so much about the scriptures as it's about who has more power & control at the right time that determines a people's fate.
Balfour and Rothschild...follow the money
And what do arabs do with oil money...palaces, yachts, extravaganzas.
"Views with favor" promises nothing. It isn't a commitment.
Refusing to accept the original partitioning & several refusals later like turning their backs on the Oslo Accords has left these people with nothing to call home.
How u give what u don't have to who don't deserve?
Palestine for ever
@@joshmellott8013 Thats cause it didn't happen.