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Monday, October 16, 2017
Fatah calls for demonstrations to protest Britain’s Balfour Declaration celebrations

[IMRA: "country’s sovereign status"? When??]
Fatah calls for demonstrations to protest Britain’s Balfour Declaration
celebrations
Publish Date: 2017/10/16
http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=OjrsVta92161098249aOjrsVt

RAMALLAH, October 16, 2017 (WAFA) – Fatah Central Committee called on Monday
for demonstrations outside British embassies everywhere to protest its
intention to hold celebrations marking 100 years for its infamous Balfour
Declaration.

A statement issued by the Central Committee said its members expressed their
grave dismay at the insistence of the British government to celebrate the
anniversary, which marked the start of the Palestinian dispersion and
dispossession from their homeland.

On November 2, 1917, years before Britain had occupied Palestine, then
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour promised in a letter to Jewish
leaders in the United Kingdom a homeland in Palestine for Europe’s Jews
totally disregarding that country’s sovereign status and the existence of
its indigenous Palestinian Arab population.

The Central Committee called in its statement “on our people as well as Arab
people everywhere to demonstrate outside British embassies to express their
utter rejection of that promise and its ramifications, as well as British
government refusal to apologize to the Palestinian people and to recognize
their right to an independent state and for compensation.”

It recommended litigating this declaration at British and international
tribunals.

M.K.

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