PA official blames Balfour Declaration [i.e., basis for Israel’s establishment] for the current "disasters of war and instability" in Middle East - Denying Israel's right to exist

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PA official blames Balfour Declaration [i.e., basis for Israel’s establishment] for the current "disasters of war and instability" in Middle East
Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida - Nov. 2, 2015

Headline: “98 years since the ominous Balfour Declaration”
“Today [Nov. 2, 2015], Monday, is the 98th anniversary of the promise in which British Foreign Minister Balfour gave the Jews the right to establish their national home in Palestine. The ominous promise – in which one who does not have ownership gave the land of Palestine to one who does not have the right – was given by the British government of that time, and it worsened the tragedy of the Palestinian people from day to day… It should be noted that the Zionist movement used the Balfour Declaration as a pretext for establishing the Zionist entity, through the placement and expansion of settlements which turned into large cities after 1948, as a result of the takeover of large territories of Palestine’s lands, and expropriation of them from their legal owners. This was done using all inhuman means, such as massacre, uprooting, and expulsion, against the Palestinian people, which increased its suffering and placed it in ongoing conflict with the occupation from that day on… Secretary-General of the [PA’s] Islamic-Christian Council for Jerusalem and the Holy Places Dr. Hanna Issa clarified: ‘Britain played an illegal role, which began 3 years before it announced the Balfour Declaration, when it promised the Zionists that it would give the Jews a national homeland in Palestine. Since that date, terror operations in the Middle East region are becoming more and more severe as a result of this promise, which dragged the region into the disasters of war and instability.”
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The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that “His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and is seen as the basis for later international commitments to establish the State of Israel.