Why the Balfour Declaration Matters Today
And how the Palestinian narrative seeks to undermine it.
March 14, 2017
A dirty little secret.
Last week, controversy broke out among Palestinians over an advertisement by Israel’s civil administration in the West Bank that appeared in Al-Quds, the leading Palestinian daily newspaper. The Palestinian Writers’ Union condemned the publication of the advertisement as “normalization” of relations with the Jewish state, and a group of journalists demonstrated outside the offices of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, which is controlled by Fatah and itself fiercely opposes any hint of normalization. Bassam Tawil comments:
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The Golan Liberation Brigade.
A dirty little secret.
The lottery of the Vilna Gaon.
The Empire’s Road.