The Hamas Movement has affirmed that the Palestinian people will remain adherent to their national rights and will continue to defend them until the liberation of their land from the Israeli occupation.
In a statement on Wednesday on the 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration Hamas said that “this [British] pledge and the subsequent political sins and human massacres against our people our rights and our historic land and the continued American bias and support for the occupation state are abortive attempts to entrench the Israeli project on the land of Palestine.”
Hamas described the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque as “the core of the conflict” with the occupation state which persists in its plans to Judaize them.
“This anniversary comes this year as the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank are making the most wonderful epics of steadfastness and struggle against the occupation in all arenas on the way to liberating Palestine from the desecration of the occupation” the Movement said.
It stressed that the crimes and atrocities that had been committed by the occupation state against the Palestinian people and their land since Balfour made his infamous promise are “imprescriptible” adding that “the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homeland and the areas they were expelled from is a legitimate and legal right that cannot be revoked waived or bargained over.”
Palestinians are marking today Wednesday 105 years since the infamous Balfour Declaration was issued — the crime Britain had committed in 1917 when it wrote a letter of 67 words that created the Zionist Jewish settler cancer on the land of Palestine.
The Balfour Declaration (“Balfour’s promise” in Arabic) was the first step for the Western world on the path of establishing a country for the Jews in Palestine.
The declaration was issued on November 2 1917 during World War I following three years of British talks with the World Zionist Organization and came in the form of a letter from Britain’s then-foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild a figurehead of the Zionist Organization and the British Jewish community.
Later it was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. That mandate system set up by the Allied powers was a veiled form of colonialism and occupation.
The Balfour Declaration resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians and it is generally viewed as one of the main catalysts of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 – and the conflict that has ensued with the Zionist state of Israel.
105 years on the Palestinian people continue to call on Britain to apologize for Balfour’s crime which has led to their displacement from their homeland and native areas and made them endure different forms of ongoing suffering and aggression at the hands of the Zionist regime its forces and settlers.
