Israel/Palestine

Uncle Joe

(63,087 posts) Sun Sep 7, 2025, 08:46 PM 21 hrs ago

The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate did not promise the Jews a State

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Unlike the vague language of the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate Charter clearly affirmed Palestinian self-determination as a core principle of international law — and promised independence at a time when Palestinian Christian and Muslim Arabs made up 90% of the population. This video explores how British duplicity, driven by imperial interests, planted the seeds of a conflict that still reverberates today.

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The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate did not promise the Jews a State (Original Post) Uncle Joe 21 hrs ago OP

Is that source credible or inherently problematic? If the quality of the research in that video is similar to the... xocetaceans 20 hrs ago #1

As far as I can tell, this is accurate history. Uncle Joe 20 hrs ago #2

Locking per I/P guidelines Lithos 5 hrs ago #3

xocetaceans

(4,268 posts)

1. Is that source credible or inherently problematic? If the quality of the research in that video is similar to the...

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:48 PM

20 hrs ago

...quality of the video's title, wouldn't the latter raise a few red flags as to the quality of the presented research? After all, since when is the blanket labeling of people not stereotyping them, and when is that ever acceptable in an honest, respectful discussion or discourse? Isn't it always appropriate to draw careful distinctions lest stereotypes become the common parlance? Historically, that sort of careless referencing has allowed hatred to thrive in many situations, and it probably should be clear by now that the practice is corrosive to the well-being of humanity as a whole. One could probably easily plot the effect of such casual language from as recently as the late 19th century in Germany to what is happening today between the State of Israel and the Palestinians.