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own family, Jacob Schiff worked hard to establish a League of
Nations. It received a donation of 3,000 pounds from N.M.
Rothschild of the London branch of the family. As we shall see
there may have been an ulterior motive to this, as the League was
to play a decisive role in granting a mandate for Palestine to the
British Government, a decisive step along the road to granting "a
Homeland" for the Jews in Palestine. With that in mind I return to
Lord Balfour and his so-called "Balfour Declaration," based on
double-dealing, deception and secret deals behind the backs of
Colonel Lawrence and the Arabs.
Balfour made haste to explain that a "Jewish Homeland"
in Palestine did not mean the imposition of a Jewish state upon
the inhabitants of Palestine, but in the light of subsequent events,
this emerged as the goal of the Zionists. As Balfour put it:
. . . but the further development of the existing Jewish
community, in order that they may become a center in
which the Jewish people, as a whole, might take, on
grounds of religion and race, interest and pride.
What Balfour left out was that nothing the British did or
said could obscure the fact that Palestine was not theirs to give,
nor did the British Government have the slightest right to secure a
mandate for Palestine. But Balfour, backed by Lord Nathan
Rothschild, pressed ahead anyway, as if the two men had an
inherent right to act in the arbitrary manner which they saw fit.
The right of the Arab and other population groups, including
Christians that extended back for more than 7,000 years was
totally disregarded by Lord Balfour. No less an authority than
Walter Laqueur, one of the foremost experts on Zionism
confirmed that the bulk of the Jews who were to inhabit Palestine
under the Balfour Declaration came from Russia. They had no
previous connection to Palestine. Laqueur also pointed out that
Russian Jews were not overly