Om författaren:
Mats Svensson befinner sig i Palestina och möter människors längtan, längtan efter det vardagliga, enkla, naturliga, längtan efter att inte känna smärta, efter att vara fri.
Det är 48 år sedan jag senast kände smärtan. Vaknade då och vaknade nu mitt i natten. Hade då just fått eget rum. När smärtan kom gick jag in till mamma och pappa, la mig mellan dem . Mamma vaknade, pappa sov som vanligt vidare.
Då hade jag drabbats av en vanlig barnsjukdom, öroninflammation. De flesta får den någon gång som barn. Alla mina fyra syskon kände någon gång av den brännande smärtan. Jag fick den ofta. Den började med ett litet molande, örat svullnade upp, smärtan ockuperade halva huvudet och trängde ned mot gommen. Trots min smärta var mamma lugn. Gav mig magnecyl. Jag grät intensivt, tyckte oändligt synd om mig själv. Men mamma lugnade mig och lovade att det snart skulle bli bättre. "I morgon går vi till Syster och så går det över", sa mamma. Jag blev lugn och somnade snart mot min mammas axel, sju år gammal.
Och nu 48 år senare, när jag åter får tillbaka smärtan är det mammas lugn jag kommer ihåg. Mamma visste ju att det fanns hjälp att få, visste att hjälpen skulle komma bara frukosten var avklarad och pappa hade gått till jobbet.
På morgonen, efter frukosten gick vi till syster Appelmo som undersökte mig och skickade oss vidare till doktor Westroth. Doktorn hade sin praktik i Värnamo, 12 km bort. Vi åkte buss dit. Doktorn tog emot mig före lunch. Undersökte mig med sitt svarta förstoringsglas som såg ut som en ficklampa. Westroth sa till mamma att "det ser inte så bra ut, men gå och hämta ut medicinen så kommer pojken snart bli bättre." Och mamma var hela tiden fylld av ett lugn när vi gick till apoteket och köpte ut tabletterna. Innan vi tog bussen hem firade vi på kondis.
Nu är värken tillbaka. Jag bor i Jerusalem och går jag till St Joseph sjukhus. Doktor G tar emot mig. Undersöker mig med ett svart förstoringsglas. "Oj" säger han, "det där ser inte bra ut." Han plockar fram den otäcka sugen. Det gör ont. Jag skriker inte men har svårt att ligga still. Doktor G skriver ut fyrar sorters mediciner, två tabletter, en salva och örondroppar." Kom tillbaka i morgon" säger Doktor G, "så rensar vi örat en gång till."
Jag har fem barn, de är alla vuxna. Alla fick de någon gång öroninflammation. Sara fick det fler gånger än de andra. Hon var ett "öronbarn". Det var på Sahlgrenska sjukhuset hon opererades, fyra gånger. Varje gång fick hon ta emot narkos och doktorn satte in ett litet rött rör som dränerade vätskan bakom trumhinnan. Doktorn tittade på mig och på Sara efter operationen och sa, "nu blir du snart bättre." Man gör så i en demokrati, man gör så att barnet snart blir bättre. På vägen ut, innan vi lämnade avdelningen på sjukhuset fick Sara välja ett Bamsemärke, de låg i en liten skål.
När jag blivit undersökt av Doktor G och fått den nödvändiga hjälpen började jag fundera på hur det är där borta, i Gaza. Dit jag nyss kunde resa. Jag frågade doktor G hur man löser smärtan i samband med öroninflammationer. Doktor G tittade på mig och utbrast uppgivet "vi talar om tusentals barn som har ont. De gråter sig igenom natten. De somnar av utmattning." Det finns bara mammor och pappor och grannar och de är förtvivlade. De vet att det inte finns någon hjälp, det vet att när solen bryter igenom saknas fortfarande det nödvändiga. Det är så under ockupation när man lever i ett ghetto under blockad och bakom murar, i krig.
Trots ständiga flygräder somnade Nayla tidigt men vaknade snart av att Fatima, hennes yngsta dotter skriker, örat värker, sjunde natten. Snart håller dottern hela familjen vaken. Grannar vaknar. Hela familjen går omkring som i dvala, i mörkret, rädda, i ett nedkylt rum, alla vill bara bort, bort från skriket och bomberna.
Och lugnet, mammas lugn, det som jag fick som barn, det kan Nayla inte ge. Fatima tittar på sin mamma, hon förstår inte vad som händer. Fatima ber om hjälp, men det finns ingen. Fatima gråter, Nayla gråter. Till slut gråter alla. Familjen somnar till slut av ren utmattning. Men lugnet varar bara en kort stund. Snart faller bomberna och alla vaknar, snart hörs skriken, ropen på hjälp.
Gryningen kommer, men ingen hjälp finns att få. Nayla har fruktansvärt ont. De som skapat helvetet, som skapat flyktinglägret, gettot, som byggt muren, som stängt portarna fortsätter med att inte ta ansvar. Apoteken är i stort sett tomma. Till sjukhuset är det för farligt att gå då bomber fortsätter att falla.
Att ockupera var lätt men att ta konsekvensen, att sörja för de ockuperades grundläggande rättigheter, det kunde man inte, det ville man inte.
BBC, CNN rapporterar timma för timma om antalet döda, antalet skadade. De har nu blivit så många att det internationella samfundet måste agera. Inte ens USA använder sitt veto för att rösta ner ett nytt resolutionsförslag.
Samtidigt som vi räknar antalet döda och skadade kan jag inte sluta tänka på alla tusentals barn med öroninflammation. Så litet i det stora dramat, så vanligt. Hur klarar man av smärtan, natt efter natt? Samtidigt börjar jag nog förstå vad som händer inom alla dessa barn. Börjar förstå vad smärtan skapar, vad sömnlösa nätter leder till.
Jag har själv mycket starka minnen av lugnet. Mammas och pappas lugn. Pappa behövde ju aldrig ens vakna när min smärta kom. De hade total tilltro, tillförsikt att det alltid fanns hjälp att få, trodde på ett system. Trodde på det demokratiska systemet. Visste att de som bestämmer, som har makten också kommer att använda den i det godas tjänst.
När barnen på Gazaremsan går ut i livet, stora nog att själva gå över gatan, har de inte fått med sig min känsla av lugn av trygghet. De har inte samma tro på samhället, på internationella regler, på diplomatin, på polisen, på militärer. Ingen har kunnat säga till dem att i morgon blir det bättre. Det de kommer att komma ihåg och det de kommer att prata om är alla dessa bomber, den höga gråa muren och smärtan i mammas förtvivlade ögon, fyllda av tårar och sorg.
When 3000 people died in 9/11 , the palestinian women danced. When Hamas trained children to kill Israel eventhough they were just 5-8 years old, no one on earth protest ! When Hamas sent the children to a battle field and died there, the world blamed Israel ! When palestinian women died because of Israel bomb in Gaza, the world blamed Israel that violate humanright and turn Gaza, the wonderful land for Hamas, to a hell ! The world media focus only how those palestian women and children were injured. The world wants everyone cries for Palestinian women and children but the world forget that they, these nice Palestinian women and children, danced when the world is perishing ! SEE MORE
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=JgfHbwEhjdg&feature=related
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Pauline Sturesson, 2009-01-12, 23:54
Detta youtube klipp säger det mesta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYtij4Q7sE
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Benny, 2009-01-13, 00:09
Pauline Sturesson,
Att du bär på så mycket hat och så lite medkänsla. Undrar vad du har gått igenom. Vad har du, vem har du lyssnat på.
Mats Svensson.
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Mats Svensson, 2009-01-13, 06:08
I have the truth that the world refuses to listen.
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Pauline Sturesson, 2009-01-18, 23:33
Pauline Sturesson, you have no truth, YOU ARE JUST PART OF THE ZIONIST PROPAGANDA MACHINE!!!
Det gäller dig också Benny!!!
Vill ni veta vad folk med samvete tycker, se då detta youtube klipp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJt33TmAKg&feature=related
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A.M.B., 2009-01-19, 11:24
AMB, I'm not just a part of the Zionist propaganda machine. You have to learn more if you want to know more. Just open your eyes and your ears and your eyes. OR...you want Sweden and European turn into "The Kingdom of Islam" that know only way to fight with violence and throw away all faults to Israel.
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Pauline Sturesson, 2009-01-20, 15:59
Hej A.M.B !
I deny your accusation. I'm not a part of the Zionist propaganda machine. You have to learn more if you want to know more. If you know more, you might be wiser than this. Just open your eyes and your ears and your minds. OR...may be you want to see Sweden and Europe turn into "The Kingdom of Islam" according to those fundamentalist muslims who proclaimed this.
I have never seen any Israeli commit a Suicide bomb to kill the Palestinian, I have never seen them teach the children to kill the Palestinian. Even though, of couse, some of them teach their children to hate palestinians because their sibling died from the palestinian torror attack.
I have never seen even a Jew teaches their children to be militants to kill the Palestinian, but I have seen a lot of muslims who did that just because they want to kill the jewish people and they are brainwashed to hate and to kill the jew since they were young or even since they were born!
I hope that the Hamas leaders are not coward and I hope the same that other fundamentalist muslim leaders are brave enough to do the same thing such as commit suicide bomb instead of convincing other muslim youngsters or muslim women to do that.
Can I ask, have you ever seen a Muslim fundamentalist leader committed a suicide bomb?... NEVER ! Muslim fundamentalist leaders all over the word are very good to convince their followers to do everything even to commit suicide bombs just to kill the Jew , american and all those whom they DO NOT LIKE! And it just only those who are totally brainwashed can do this! Why they, the fundamentalist muslim leaders, have never done something like that as a sample for their followers? They always say that if you kill the Jew, you will go to the heaven. And if you are a guy, you commit suicide bomb to kill the jewish people, you will have many (may be 72 ) vergin girls in the heaven! Have you ever heard a great idea about that?
The same in Gaza. I wonder why Hamas leaders did not tell their militants to stop shooting thousands of rockets to Israel before Israel decided to stop them in Gaza? May be you have to live in the south of Israel for a while. Do you think that it is justification for Israeli to died at the same number like Palestinian in Gaza? Israeli dead bodies would absolutely be more than the Palestinian in Gaza if Israeli government had no idea to protect them in advance. But because they create a lot of bunkers and shelters for their civilians, so it's a pity that you could not see so many Israeli die!
Can I ask, is it wrong for Israeli government to protect their people? If such things happens to Sweden, and the government creates shelters for the Swed, IS THAT ABSOLUTELY WRONG?
Who should take a responsibility if the swedish government do not create any shelter for the Swed? The enemy? YES, and the government too!
Just think !
How many people would die if a thousand of rockets came in the middle of the town without any shelters? You can think the same as people in Gaza. Why Hamas did not create any shelters for their civilians? Why many palestinians still walked around their houses even though they had got all informations from Israeli side to hide before the attacks?
Why Hamas leaders just hided themselves in shelters underground and let some of lower ranking of Hamas militants standing among the civilian to fight? I feel really sad for all Palestians who chose Hamas as their government. I have to say, it is a pity for them who were born as a palestinian but, anyway, they have the choice to choose, peace or war.
The world understood very well that Hamas really tries to create peace by shooting thousands of rockets to Israel, and it is Israel who does not accept such a nice peaceful offer by attacking Gaza !
You might be shocked! If you know more information about plans that Hamas did for their People.
I know some of nice palestinians too. They are muslim palestinians, and they are nice. I understand the suffering they have. All of facilities come from Israel sides. But when some problems happened because of the bomb or suicide bombs, the borders closed...then...the Palestinian blamed Israel !
I do not understand why they do not look at their own people and try to stop such a horrorable reaction? Why they do not teach their children to be friendly instead of creating such a hate idea that no one can reach!
Sometime I wonder why most of the palestinians say in the news, TV, and radio the same thing that contrary to the truth in every chances? They lie from a little thing to a big thing. They think that Palestinian come from Philistia in the Bible. And they forget totally that in the past even after the world war two, Israeli also called themselves the Palestinian ! That is because they live in the land that the Rome, in the past, called "Palestina" and called everyone who lived in Palestina, the Palestinian. Do you know that? If you have never heard such thing before, I recommend you to learn more.
If you ask the Arab, are the Palestinian.. Arab? I don't think all of them say YES. All Arabs in Israel have never called themselves Palestinian and I'm not sure that they want to accept the Palestinian as the Arab.
It's rediculous to hear many palestinians say and ask : All of the countries in the middle east are muslim countries, except Israel, so Why Israeli do not go away and let the Palestinian take over the land? Why Israeli still be there surrounding by muslim countries? Why the Israeli cannot give a very little piece of the land to the Palestian, as a muslim country like the others surrounded?
I wonder why the Palestinian have never asked for any little piece of the land from those big muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia or Egypt? One Palestinian said to me, we are muslim, we share everything as we are brethens. What about those big muslim countries, are they muslim, right? So, they are brethens, and they can share the land, right? But why they dare not to give any piece of the land to the Palestinian? Just think!
Palestinian leaders said that we have to believe the UN that the Israeli troop bomb the school. That means they give a respect to the UN and it means that no matter what the UN says, they have to believe. But why when the UN said that Israel is a country, the Palestinian refuse? Just think! Is that a lie?
I'm not a Jew and I have my own idea that no one can use me as a tool or a machine to blame such a wonderful organization like Hamas!
If you learn more, you might understand what is the reality. And I hope that you are not be in a trap or be a tool for muslim fundamentalist propaganda.
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Pauline Sturesson, 2009-01-20, 18:25
Pauline Sturesson, hav you heard about Baruch Goldstein? What would you think if I used him as a typical ex. of a jew? We palestinians, christians as well as muslims, do generally NOT hate jews, we do however hate zionists, and if you know some history you allso know why. The zionists stole our land, our homes, they murdered our people (and still do so), thy put illegal settelers on our land e.t.c.
It is however very important to make a clear distinction between jews and zionists, not all jews ar zionists. Antisemitism is should allways be condemnd.
Mybee we can sit down some day an find a sulution that is just for all parts, and live in peace without hate. I wish that day will come during my lifetime.
Best wishes!
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A.M.B., 2009-01-20, 21:01
Vad vet politikerna om hela Palestinafrågan ??..Vad vet media om hela Palestinafrågan??..
Varför talar inte politikerna om alla fakta till folket??.Varför mörklägger media alla fakta om Palestinafrågan????
Hur kan hända det att folket inte vet om alla fakta om Palestinafrågan??....Varför har inte skolan alla fakta om Palestinafrågan??...
Det var hela tiden falska fakta och lögner får folket höra..
Fakta från historien får inte komma till folket..
Mord och politiska mord har varit över hela världen ..Varför är politikerna så tysta om allt och om alla ??..
Varför försvarar politikerna Israel och Israels alla brott orättvist??..
Kan man försvara en mördare????..Politikerna gör med Israel.......
Nu är det slut på alla lögner och alla fakta ska komma fram..
UKs ord--Balfourdeklaration 1917--till sionisterna om Palestina.Uks utrikesminister ,Arthur James Balfour.
Foreign Office,
den 2 november 1917 Käre Lord Rothschild,
Jag har det stora nöjet att, å Hans Majestäts regerings vägnar, till Er överlämna följande deklaration om sympatier för det judiska sionistiska aspirationerna, vilken har underställts och godkänts av kabinettet.
'Hans Majestäts regering ser gynnsamt på grundandet i Palestina av ett nationellt hem för det judiska folket och kommer att göra sin bästa ansträngningar för att underlätta uppnåendet av detta syfte; varvid det är klart underförstått att ingenting skall göras som kan skada de medborgerliga och religiösa rättigheterna för de icke-judiska befolkningsgrupperna i Palestina eller de rättigheter och den politiska ställning, som åtnjutes av judar i någon annat land.'
Jag skulle vara tacksam om Ni kunde göra den sionistiska federationen underkunnig om denna deklaration.
Eder Högaktningsfulle
Arthur James Balfour
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Caroline Palmqvist, 2010-02-23, 10:35
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When 3000 people died in 9/11 , the palestinian women danced. When Hamas trained children to kill Israel eventhough they were just 5-8 years old, no one on earth protest ! When Hamas sent the children to a battle field and died there, the world blamed Israel ! When palestinian women died because of Israel bomb in Gaza, the world blamed Israel that violate humanright and turn Gaza, the wonderful land for Hamas, to a hell ! The world media focus only how those palestian women and children were injured. The world wants everyone cries for Palestinian women and children but the world forget that they, these nice Palestinian women and children, danced when the world is perishing ! SEE MORE
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=JgfHbwEhjdg&feature=related
Detta youtube klipp säger det mesta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYtij4Q7sE
Pauline Sturesson,
Att du bär på så mycket hat och så lite medkänsla. Undrar vad du har gått igenom. Vad har du, vem har du lyssnat på.
Mats Svensson.
I have the truth that the world refuses to listen.
Pauline Sturesson, you have no truth, YOU ARE JUST PART OF THE ZIONIST PROPAGANDA MACHINE!!!
Det gäller dig också Benny!!!
Vill ni veta vad folk med samvete tycker, se då detta youtube klipp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJt33TmAKg&feature=related
AMB, I'm not just a part of the Zionist propaganda machine. You have to learn more if you want to know more. Just open your eyes and your ears and your eyes. OR...you want Sweden and European turn into "The Kingdom of Islam" that know only way to fight with violence and throw away all faults to Israel.
Hej A.M.B !
I deny your accusation. I'm not a part of the Zionist propaganda machine. You have to learn more if you want to know more. If you know more, you might be wiser than this. Just open your eyes and your ears and your minds. OR...may be you want to see Sweden and Europe turn into "The Kingdom of Islam" according to those fundamentalist muslims who proclaimed this.
I have never seen any Israeli commit a Suicide bomb to kill the Palestinian, I have never seen them teach the children to kill the Palestinian. Even though, of couse, some of them teach their children to hate palestinians because their sibling died from the palestinian torror attack.
I have never seen even a Jew teaches their children to be militants to kill the Palestinian, but I have seen a lot of muslims who did that just because they want to kill the jewish people and they are brainwashed to hate and to kill the jew since they were young or even since they were born!
I hope that the Hamas leaders are not coward and I hope the same that other fundamentalist muslim leaders are brave enough to do the same thing such as commit suicide bomb instead of convincing other muslim youngsters or muslim women to do that.
Can I ask, have you ever seen a Muslim fundamentalist leader committed a suicide bomb?... NEVER ! Muslim fundamentalist leaders all over the word are very good to convince their followers to do everything even to commit suicide bombs just to kill the Jew , american and all those whom they DO NOT LIKE! And it just only those who are totally brainwashed can do this! Why they, the fundamentalist muslim leaders, have never done something like that as a sample for their followers? They always say that if you kill the Jew, you will go to the heaven. And if you are a guy, you commit suicide bomb to kill the jewish people, you will have many (may be 72 ) vergin girls in the heaven! Have you ever heard a great idea about that?
The same in Gaza. I wonder why Hamas leaders did not tell their militants to stop shooting thousands of rockets to Israel before Israel decided to stop them in Gaza? May be you have to live in the south of Israel for a while. Do you think that it is justification for Israeli to died at the same number like Palestinian in Gaza? Israeli dead bodies would absolutely be more than the Palestinian in Gaza if Israeli government had no idea to protect them in advance. But because they create a lot of bunkers and shelters for their civilians, so it's a pity that you could not see so many Israeli die!
Can I ask, is it wrong for Israeli government to protect their people? If such things happens to Sweden, and the government creates shelters for the Swed, IS THAT ABSOLUTELY WRONG?
Who should take a responsibility if the swedish government do not create any shelter for the Swed? The enemy? YES, and the government too!
Just think !
How many people would die if a thousand of rockets came in the middle of the town without any shelters? You can think the same as people in Gaza. Why Hamas did not create any shelters for their civilians? Why many palestinians still walked around their houses even though they had got all informations from Israeli side to hide before the attacks?
Why Hamas leaders just hided themselves in shelters underground and let some of lower ranking of Hamas militants standing among the civilian to fight? I feel really sad for all Palestians who chose Hamas as their government. I have to say, it is a pity for them who were born as a palestinian but, anyway, they have the choice to choose, peace or war.
The world understood very well that Hamas really tries to create peace by shooting thousands of rockets to Israel, and it is Israel who does not accept such a nice peaceful offer by attacking Gaza !
You might be shocked! If you know more information about plans that Hamas did for their People.
I know some of nice palestinians too. They are muslim palestinians, and they are nice. I understand the suffering they have. All of facilities come from Israel sides. But when some problems happened because of the bomb or suicide bombs, the borders closed...then...the Palestinian blamed Israel !
I do not understand why they do not look at their own people and try to stop such a horrorable reaction? Why they do not teach their children to be friendly instead of creating such a hate idea that no one can reach!
Sometime I wonder why most of the palestinians say in the news, TV, and radio the same thing that contrary to the truth in every chances? They lie from a little thing to a big thing. They think that Palestinian come from Philistia in the Bible. And they forget totally that in the past even after the world war two, Israeli also called themselves the Palestinian ! That is because they live in the land that the Rome, in the past, called "Palestina" and called everyone who lived in Palestina, the Palestinian. Do you know that? If you have never heard such thing before, I recommend you to learn more.
If you ask the Arab, are the Palestinian.. Arab? I don't think all of them say YES. All Arabs in Israel have never called themselves Palestinian and I'm not sure that they want to accept the Palestinian as the Arab.
It's rediculous to hear many palestinians say and ask : All of the countries in the middle east are muslim countries, except Israel, so Why Israeli do not go away and let the Palestinian take over the land? Why Israeli still be there surrounding by muslim countries? Why the Israeli cannot give a very little piece of the land to the Palestian, as a muslim country like the others surrounded?
I wonder why the Palestinian have never asked for any little piece of the land from those big muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia or Egypt? One Palestinian said to me, we are muslim, we share everything as we are brethens. What about those big muslim countries, are they muslim, right? So, they are brethens, and they can share the land, right? But why they dare not to give any piece of the land to the Palestinian? Just think!
Palestinian leaders said that we have to believe the UN that the Israeli troop bomb the school. That means they give a respect to the UN and it means that no matter what the UN says, they have to believe. But why when the UN said that Israel is a country, the Palestinian refuse? Just think! Is that a lie?
I'm not a Jew and I have my own idea that no one can use me as a tool or a machine to blame such a wonderful organization like Hamas!
If you learn more, you might understand what is the reality. And I hope that you are not be in a trap or be a tool for muslim fundamentalist propaganda.
Pauline Sturesson, hav you heard about Baruch Goldstein? What would you think if I used him as a typical ex. of a jew? We palestinians, christians as well as muslims, do generally NOT hate jews, we do however hate zionists, and if you know some history you allso know why. The zionists stole our land, our homes, they murdered our people (and still do so), thy put illegal settelers on our land e.t.c.
It is however very important to make a clear distinction between jews and zionists, not all jews ar zionists. Antisemitism is should allways be condemnd.
Mybee we can sit down some day an find a sulution that is just for all parts, and live in peace without hate. I wish that day will come during my lifetime.
Best wishes!
Vad vet politikerna om hela Palestinafrågan ??..Vad vet media om hela Palestinafrågan??..
Varför talar inte politikerna om alla fakta till folket??.Varför mörklägger media alla fakta om Palestinafrågan????
Hur kan hända det att folket inte vet om alla fakta om Palestinafrågan??....Varför har inte skolan alla fakta om Palestinafrågan??...
Det var hela tiden falska fakta och lögner får folket höra..
Fakta från historien får inte komma till folket..
Mord och politiska mord har varit över hela världen ..Varför är politikerna så tysta om allt och om alla ??..
Varför försvarar politikerna Israel och Israels alla brott orättvist??..
Kan man försvara en mördare????..Politikerna gör med Israel.......
Nu är det slut på alla lögner och alla fakta ska komma fram..
UKs ord--Balfourdeklaration 1917--till sionisterna om Palestina.Uks utrikesminister ,Arthur James Balfour.
Foreign Office,
den 2 november 1917 Käre Lord Rothschild,
Jag har det stora nöjet att, å Hans Majestäts regerings vägnar, till Er överlämna följande deklaration om sympatier för det judiska sionistiska aspirationerna, vilken har underställts och godkänts av kabinettet.
'Hans Majestäts regering ser gynnsamt på grundandet i Palestina av ett nationellt hem för det judiska folket och kommer att göra sin bästa ansträngningar för att underlätta uppnåendet av detta syfte; varvid det är klart underförstått att ingenting skall göras som kan skada de medborgerliga och religiösa rättigheterna för de icke-judiska befolkningsgrupperna i Palestina eller de rättigheter och den politiska ställning, som åtnjutes av judar i någon annat land.'
Jag skulle vara tacksam om Ni kunde göra den sionistiska federationen underkunnig om denna deklaration.
Eder Högaktningsfulle
Arthur James Balfour