Why Does Congress Want to Celebrate the Balfour Declaration?
“Recognizing the deep and abiding friendship between the United States and Israel” (H.Con.Res.92)
H.Con.Res.92, the “Recognizing the deep and abiding friendship between the United States and Israel” joint-resolution was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. The bill was sponsored by Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA) and co-sponsored by Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA), Steve Russell (R-OK) and Henry Cueller (D-TX) in yet another glaring example of the pervasive influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington.
This short bill is couched in Zionist terms of the Jewish people having a divine right to the territory of Palestine, while ignoring the fact that the assertion of that right requires displacement of people who had been living there for generations. Those people, of course, are the Palestinians, who had been living in Palestine for millennia prior to the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinians are also the people whom Israel continues to displace from their homes by force to this very day.
The bill reads as a fawning restatement of the Zionist position on Israeli settlement of Palestinian land, at one point declaring that “Israel serves as a beacon for democracy by holding free and transparent elections and promoting the free exchange of ideas.” This, of course, completely ignores the fact that Israel is an apartheid state that codifies the discrimination of one ethnicity and one religion over all others within its territory. Only the Jewish members of this Jewish state are allowed to participate in the free exchange of ideas within its borders. Not what most Americans would describe as a “beacon for democracy”.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
As the bill states, on November 2, 1917, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Lord Arthur Balfour, wrote a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild basically promising Palestine to the Zionist Federation “as a home for the Jewish people”. Palestine at the time was part of the Ottoman Empire, who had entered World War I alongside Germany. Balfour’s letter provides support for the assertion by some researchers that it was Zionist influence, and their promise to bring the United States into the war on the British side in exchange for Palestine, that prevented the U.K. from accepting an armistice extended by Germany nearly two years before the end of the four year long war.
World War I was one of the deadliest wars in history with over 18 million dead and 23 million wounded. Had the U.K. accepted the German’s offer to end the war, millions of deaths could have been prevented. However, this conflicted with the financial interests of the Rothschild banking family. Rothschild-owned banks were already entrenched in the government finance of Germany, the U.K. and France by the start of World War I. Lord Walter Rothschild, whom the Balfour letter is addressed to, was a member of the very same Rothschild family.
Countries borrow like crazy during times of war and a premature end to World War I would have cut into Rothschild family profits. But, who can turn down the promise of getting your own country? Not Lord Walter Rothschild, who was closely aligned with a Jewish supremacist organization known as the “Zionist Federation”. Their purpose was the creation of a Jewish-only state. The fruit of their efforts is present-day Israel.
The “deep and abiding friendship”
While this bill affirms the “deep and abiding friendship” between the United States and Israel, it pales in comparison to other more costly proclamations of America’s devotion to Israel like the $38 billion military aid package approved by Washington in September of 2016. Nothing indicates a “deep and abiding friendship” more than the leaders of a country that is $20 trillion in debt (that’s the United States if you weren’t aware) gifting $38 billion of their taxpayers’ money to another country. Especially when the recipient country is in the top 10% of nations in terms of wealth.
Then again, making it into the top 10% of the wealthiest nations on Earth should be easy when you can buy off American politicians, like Tom Graves, Cathy McMorris and Steve Russell, to force Uncle Sam kiss your ass at every opportunity.
You can read the text of the proposed joint-resolution here on the Congress.gov website at https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/92/text
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