The Balfour Declaration , The Israel Lobby, and The Zionist-Saudi Connection

Today marks ninety years since the Balfour declaration had been issued. It is a simple letter from Lord Balfour to lord Rotschild, dated November 2, 1917, promising Jews a homeland in Palestine on which Great Britain had a mandate. Balfour had worked on the declaration with Chaim Weizmann, head of the world's zionist organisation. Great Britain, who tried to rally Arabs against Ottomans during WWI, thanks to the activities of Laurence of Arabia, was able to have on its side Faisal bin Husayn, from the Hachemite dynasty of Saudi Arabia, who later became king of Iraq, under the British mandate. It is this same Faisal who signed with Weizman, on January 3, 1919, the Weizmann-Faisal agreement accepting the Balfour declaration in exchange for kingdoms in the Arab world given to him and his sons under the British mandate.

Faisal is seen here on the right, with Weizmann dressed as an Arab for the occasion.


Much have been said about the motives behind this 'gift' from the UK to zionism. Many suspect that it was the price the UK paid to reward the efforts of zionists for convincing the US to enter war against Germany. But to do this, zionists relied on people placed at very high positions in Germany, the US and the UK.

There are documents showing that many British Jews preferred assimilation and integration to an immigration to Israel. An early dissenter is Edwin Montagu. He was the secretary of state for indian affairs and he told Prime Minister Lloyd George. "All my life I have been trying to get out of the ghetto. You want to force me back there."

What surprises me is that here we are ninety years later with zionists, and some Arabs, playing exactly the same games, speaking in the name of Jews, or in the case of Saudis in the name of all Arabs, leading countries to war, for the egoistic interests of the few...It strikes me also that there must be a structural flaw to that great democracy that was the US in order to have become, over the years, so much vulnerable to lobbying, against its own interests. Absolute power and money are against a healthy democracy and those are the main flaws in the US. The zionist lobby seems to have been playing this game from the beginning but it is in the US that the game became so successful, because of the US imperial aspirations and its money fueled 'democracy'. And what game the Saudis are playing ? Preserving their own dynasty by any means.

"Weizmann first met Faisal in June 1918, during the British advance from the South against the Ottoman Empire in World War I. As leader of an impromptu "Zionist Commission", Weizmann traveled to southern Transjordan for the meeting. The intended purpose was to forge an agreement between Faisal and the Zionist movement to support Jewish settlement in Palestine. The wishes of the Palestinian Arabs were to be ignored, and, indeed, both men seem to have held the Palestinian Arabs in considerable disdain. Weizmann had called them "treacherous", "arrogant", "uneducated", and "greedy" and had complained to the British that the system in Palestine did "not take into account the fact that there is a fundamental qualitative difference between Jew and Arab".[1] After his meeting with Faisal, Weizmann reported that Faisal was "contemptuous of the Palestinian Arabs whom he doesn't even regard as Arabs"."

A comment from Angry Arab on the Balfour declaration.

An update from a commentator on this post on the anti-semitism of Lord Balfour and on the early and continuing collaboration between zionists and anit-semites.

"The Zionists have ruthlessly exploited antisemitism to achieve their aims."

"Many European Jews who lived in Palestine from 1939 to 1945 would have offered anything to save the lives of their family members stuck in Poland and Germany who were doomed to death camps"

You need to read Ben Hecht"s book regarding Zionist collaboration witn the Nazis during WWII. He accuses the Zionist establishment of seeking young able bodied Jews for Palestine and sending others to the concentration camps in Hungary.

Zionism is the other side of the coin and can best be illustrated with a quote by its patron ,the antisemite Lord Balfour in 1918.

"For as I read its meaning it is, among other things, a serious endeavor to mitigate the age-long miseries created for Western civilization by the presence in its midst of a Body which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb. Surely for this, if for no other reason, it should receive our support."

Mr. Herzl, The father of Zionism also said:

"I will say to the German Kaiser: Let us go forth. We are aliens here".

In an editorial article in "Davar", the official newspaper of the governing Israel Labour Party (Mapai). Editor Sharun wrote:
"I shall not be ashamed to confess that if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men - intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with desire to help redeem Jews - and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears."(Lilienthal, Alfred; What Price Israel?, page 47)

As for the Russian Jews, many were economic refugees fleeing the collapse of the Soviet Union. Refugees only had to prove that one of their grandparents was Jewish.

Jews after the collapse of the USSR rose to prominence in politics and business. The First Lady , Mrs. Yeltsin was Jewish so it is hard to argue that the emigration was the result of antisemitism." (Thanks Issam)