Balfour Declaration Essay

Israel belongs to the Jews by religious and documented rights. From 1948 to this day, Jews and Palestinians have been fighting over the land of Israel. Both sides have been claiming that the land is theirs by numerous rights. One of the main reasons that the land should belong to Jews is the Balfour Declaration. Another is that Jewish people have strong religious ties to the land. Also the fact that this land is a safe haven for jews after being discriminated against. The Balfour Declaration, a letter sent from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in 1917, stated the British’s support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. In the letter it specifically announces, “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people…” This quote accepts that Jews need a home for themselves and shows that the British are willing to help. The Palestinians did not have this right. …show more content…
Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Qu'ran but is mentioned over 650 time in the Torah. While paying Jews face towards Jerusalem and Palestinians face away.It specifically says in Genesis 13:14-17: "The Lord said to Abram/Abraham, "Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee." Abraham then moved his tent down and into Hebron, West Bank where God would appear and say “I am giving you this land.” Giving the land to Abraham, and giving the land to all of us. We are looking at this as a political battle, where it is in fact just whether we believe the word of God is true. Jews are tied to the land