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PALESTINIAN leaders marked yesterday’s centenary of the Balfour Declaration by demanding that Britain take responsibility for the Israeli occupation of their homeland.
Thousands of people attended protests across the occupied territories to commemorate then foreign secretary Arthur Balfour’s promise that Britain would help create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman empire.
A major demonstration was held in Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority, with thousands marching to the British consulate.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
