@salmon_rushdie said in #4:
> People be hating on Balfour but he was very adamant in his proclamation of “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”
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> I think he was just a dude trying to solve a very long term problem of where Jewish people could live and not be subjected to discrimination.. It also was not about establishing a specifically Jewish state.
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> And honestly - if it wasn't for the Nazis there likely wouldn't have been such problems in Palestine to begin with - immigration only surged in 1933 when they took power.. Things would've taken place at a slower and more peaceful rate because people wouldn't have been desperate to immigrate.
If I remember correctly, the British did slow Jewish emigration to Palestine - which did end up making life quite difficult for those left behind for the Holocaust.
Was not Britain caught in a double promise to both the Arabs and the Jews? Where the land they thought they had promised to the Jews only, they had actually promised to the Arabs as well? And now that misunderstanding carries in to modern times...