tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post5617354620425228858..comments2023-10-31T12:43:06.690-04:00Comments on NishmaBlog: Balfour DeclarationNishmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237299801109329429noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3314914268727443114.post-63456468849969115072017-11-22T23:48:05.238-05:002017-11-22T23:48:05.238-05:00While we must appreciate the British recognition o...While we must appreciate the British recognition of the Jewish desire to return to its homeland, as presented in the Balfour Declaration, and recognize the many important points made in this posting, the difficulty with applying the Balfour Declaration today must also be acknowledge. It was a product of a world that accepted colonialism, even thought it admirable. In our world today, colonialism is now seen as wrong. The Jewish right to Israel should thus not be defined as based on the propriety of Britain and the League of Nations giving land to establish a homeland for the Jews. In the present political climate, it would, as such, be better defined as based on a right of an indigenous population (the Jewish nation) forcibly being exiled from its ancestral homeland to return to its land -- and this is the truth.<br />RBH Rabbi Ben Hechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13424122479105225620noreply@blogger.com