On the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which was issued on November 2, 1917, and resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, I went to read the letter of the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to the Zionist Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community.

While reading the letter, I found out that the Balfour Declaration is itself strong proof that Palestine is the land of Palestinians and that some conspirators stole it. The use of the word “Palestine” in the following letter from James Balfour to the British Zionist Rothschild (Balfour Declaration) testifies for the theft that took place a century and seven years ago, testifies that such pledge was issued by He (Arthur Balfour) who does not own, for he (Rothschild) who does not deserve the land of the Natives (Palestinians). In other words, the Balfour Declaration promised Jews a land where the natives (the Palestinians) made up more than 90 percent of the population.

It was one of three controversial wartime British promises; the British promised the Jews a national home in Palestine, at the same time, they promised the Arabs independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1915 Hussein-McMahon correspondence; and in a separate treaty known as 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, they promised the French, that the majority of Palestine would be under international administration, while the rest of the region would be split between the two colonial powers after the war.

That Declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly promised to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there.

The British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, on November 2, 1917, made the following pledge in a public letter to a known British Zionist, Lord Walter Rothschild:

"Balfour Declaration 1917"

November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,

Arthur James Balfour"

That declaration was made during World War I (1914-1918) and was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

The main goal of the British Mandate in Palestine was to pave the way for the establishment of a Jewish “national home”, where Jews constituted less than 10 percent of the population at the time.

It is important to note that France was also involved and declared its support for establishing a national home for the Jews before the issuing of the Balfour Declaration.

A May 1917 letter from a French diplomat called Jules Cambon, to Nahum Sokolow, a Polish Zionist, expressed the sympathetic views of the French government towards “Jewish colonisation in Palestine”.

Also, Germany played a significant role in the establishment of the Jewish state on the Palestinian Lands. The hidden relations between the government of Adolf Hitler and German Zionists go back to 1923. From the first years of the Nazi regime, Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party (1920 -1945) shared the goal of many Zionists to encourage the Jews to embrace Zionism and immigrate to Palestine.

Hitler and his Nazi Party cooperated with Zionists to get rid of German Jews by encouraging them to move to Palestine.

In 1933, The Nazi regime signed with the Zionist German Jews the Haavara Agreement or "transfer agreement" on 25 August 1933. That agreement was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews from Germany to Palestine over the following six years. The agreement allowed the Jews to move with their assets to Palestine.

Despite many Western powers working against Palestine, the Balfour Declaration has been a subject of debate for many decades. Some argue that many in the British government at the time were Zionists themselves, others say the declaration was issued to get rid of the Jews who were hated in Europe, discriminated against, and seen as inferiors. So giving Palestine to the Jews was a solution to the “Jewish problem”.

It could be said that many Western powers worked against Palestine. They aimed at getting rid of the European Jews at the expense of Palestinians, at a time when Palestinians were in the depths of sleep, as Khalil Sakakini, a Jerusalemite Christian Palestinian writer, described Palestine in the immediate aftermath of the war as follows: “A nation which has long been in the depths of sleep only awakes if events rudely shake it, and only arises little by little … This was the situation of Palestine, which for many centuries has been in the deepest sleep, until it was shaken by the great war, shocked by the Zionist movement, and violated by the illegal policy [of the British], and it awoke, little by little.”