1.Dünya savaşı, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun çöküşüne, İngilizlerin Filistin'e girmelerine ve 1917'de musevilere ulusal devlet sözü veren Belfur bildirisine neden olacaktı.
Balfour Deklarasyonu ise tüm muğlaklığı ve sınırlılığına rağmen Yahudilere Filistin'in kapılarını açacak ve onları hakimi yapacak altın anahtarı sunmuştu.
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Just like Zionism, Palestinian and other Arab national identities were modern and contingent, a product of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century circumstances, not eternal and immutable. The denial of an authentic, independent Palestinian identity is of a piece with Herzl's colonialist views on the alleged benefits of Zionism to the indigenous population, and constitutes a crucial element in the erasure of their national rights and peoplehood by the Balfour Declaration and its sequels.
Sayfa 43 - Epub
Banned publication of the Declaration
After British troops occupied Jerusalem in December 1917, the military regime banned publication of news of the declaration. 26 Indeed, the British authorities did not allow newspapers to reappear in Palestine for nearly two years. When reports of the Balfour Declaration finally reached Palestine, they trickled in slowly via word of mouth and then through copies of Egyptian newspapers that travelers brought from Cairo.
Balfour declaration
For Zionists, their enterprise was now backed by an indispensable "iron wall" of British military might, in the words of Ze'ev Jabotinksy. For the inhabitants of Palestine, whose future it ultimately decided, Balfour's careful, calibrated prose was in effect a gun pointed directly at their heads, a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population. The majority now faced the prospect of being outnumbered by unlimited Jewish immigration to a country then almost completely Arab in its population and culture. Whether intended this way or not, the declaration launched a full-blown colonial conflict, a century-long assault on the Palestinian people, aimed at fostering an exclusivist "national home" at their expense.