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DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
All told, governments killed more than 262 million people in the 20th century outside of wars, according to University of Hawaii political science professor R.J. Rummel. Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Few documents in Middle Eastern history have had as consequential and controversial an influence as the Balfour Declaration of 1917. But who was it named for, and what was the meaning of the declaration, and does it remain such a contentious chapter in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict?

The Balfour Declaration was actually a 67-word statement contained within a brief letter attributed to Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary, dated Nov. 2, 1917. The declaration recognized the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It statement read as follows:
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Balfour addressed the letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a British banker, zoologist and Zionist activist who, along with Zionists Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, helped draft the declaration much as lobbyists today draft bills for legislators to submit. As such, the declaration was in line with European Zionist leaders' hopes and designs for a homeland in Palestine, Rothschild and others believed would be realized through intense immigration of Jews around the world to Palestine.

Liberal Britain’s Sympathy for Zionism

Balfour was part of the liberal government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. British liberal public opinion believed that Jews had suffered historical injustices, that the West was to blame, and that, therefore, the West had a responsibility to enable a Jewish homeland.The push for a Jewish homeland was aided, in Britain and elsewhere, by an ironic, if bigoted, twist. Fundamentalist Christians, from whose ranks European anti-Semitism drew its inspiration, encouraged the emigration of Jews as one way to accomplish two goals: depopulate Europe of Jews, and fulfill Biblical prophesy (Christians believe that the return of Christ must be preceded by a Jewish kingdom in the Holy Land

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