People’s Assembly: The ominous Balfour Declaration is the reason for what is happening today in Palestine

Damascus (ST): The People’s Assembly affirmed Syria’s continued support for the Palestinian people until the full restoration of their legitimate rights. The Assembly said in a statement issued on the 115th anniversary of the ominous Balfour Declaration: “This false promise was given to those who do not have to those who do not deserve, and it is a flagrant violation of the most basic values and standards of international law, and an explicit and clear attack on all rules related to the Convention of Human Rights and international humanitarian law.

The Assembly considered that what is happening today in Palestine is a reflection of the repercussions of this promise that Britain gave to the global Zionist movement on November 2, 1917, through its then Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, which included the establishment of a national home for the Jews on the land of Arab Palestine, where the Palestinian people would be subjected to the harshest forms of oppression. The Palestinians are still suffering from the Zionist practices including plans for Judaization and forced displacement, demolishing homes over the heads of their Palestinian residents, and confiscating their lands in continuous and brutal attempts by the usurping entity to subjugate the Palestinians and thwart any efforts to reach a solution to the Palestinian issue.

The statement stressed that the Palestinian cause has always been Syria’s first central issue, and this explains to the whole world the reasons for the fierce aggressive terrorist attack, and the unjust economic measures that followed it.

K.Q.