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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The UK were instrumental in giving birth to this settler-colony by issuing the Balfour declaration in 1917, taking Palestine over after World War 1, arresting and executing Palestinian nationalists during the Arab uprising in 1936, and training the ~~Irgun and~~ Hagana Jewish terror gangs and then promptly high tailing it out of there when the going got rough. So its no surprise that British politicians are hand in glove supporting this current genocide.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Not that the 1917 Balfour declaration was well written or overly centered on justice-- "The Balfour Declaration" was merely a very short letter from a british secretary to Lord Rotheschild after all (to curry favor), not an official policy document or government statement-- but zionists pretended it was more of a policy declaration than it was. Israel immediately violated what protections the Balfour letter imagined.

Balfour specified that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine".

Zionists immediately launched into violating civil and religious rights in minute #1 of the Israeli states existence and theyve never stopped for a single second of that states existence. There has never been an Israel there that wasnt based on hatred, racism, and vicious oppression that massively violates civil and religious rights.

You also said the UK trained Irgun. I think you are mistaken. Irgun was primarily trained by instructors from the Polish Armed Forces in 1938 and 1939, with supplementary instruction received at the Military Engineers School in Fascist Italy. The training was facilitated through partnerships forged by Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionist movement. Training Irgun was a nazi project. Irgun then became the IDF. Heres an interesting read on that: https://fpif.org/running-war/

Irgun was attacking the Brits with terrorism attacks right before Israel was formed. Heres a timeline of those many attacks against the British.

https://www.palquest.org/en/overallchronology?nid=139&chronos=139

I'd argue that Israel was as much or more a nazi creation as it was the UK.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Thanks for the clarification and link. Have crossed out Irgun.