Abbas: UK must apologize for Balfour Declaration

22 September 2016, 7:14 pm

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Abbas says the British government should apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which lays out London’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

“We ask Britain, as we approach 100 years since this notorious declaration to draw the necessary lessons and to bear its historic, legal, political, material and moral responsibilities for the consequences of this declaration,” he says, “including an apology to the Palestinian people for the catastrophes, miseries and injustices that it created, and to act to rectify this historic catastrophe and remedy its consequences, including by recognition of the State of Palestine.”