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And perhaps of typical imperial arrogance? Who were we to assume that a pronouncement by the British government should determine the indefinite future of a piece of someone else's land?
And why does this particular British declaration have so much lasting validity, as if Balfour had been up a mountain and read it on a tablet, compared with all the other doomed pronouncements of British politicians down the ages?
Aren't we glad we secured the mandate for that territory, and hence the right to determine its future. Supposing it had been France, and a French politician had declared it should be a Palestinian homeland - perhaps that would have settled the matter the other way. :)
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