Balfour’s shameful legacy: UK government must say sorry and protect Christian churches in Palestine
NOVANEWS
Open letter to a Secretary of State
By Stuart Littlewood
To: Rt Hon David Mundell MP [pictured above], Secretary of State for Scotland
Dear Mr Mundell,
It was a pleasure meeting you at the Dumfries Agricultural Show. If you recall, we talked briefly about Mrs May’s perverse plan to celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration “with pride” and invite Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to the jollifications.
The infamous declaration was a pledge contrived by Zionists inside and outside the British government. It was in effect a “promissory note” to the Zionist movement for their help in bringing the US into World War I; and it was made with utter disregard to the consequences for the majority Arab population in Palestine. Worse, it amounted to a betrayal of our Arab allies,...