| superchunk said: @kasz216 Seriously nice spin man. You should do PR for Sony. |
What spin? That was obviously what it meant.
The original drafts basically just stated they were going to establish a homeland for the jews... and they had to soften it up.
Once again... your own link backs me up on that.
"he initial draft of the declaration, contained in a letter sent by Rothschild to Balfour, referred to the principle "that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people."[4] In the final text, the word that was replaced with in to avoid committing the entirety of Palestine to this purpose. Similarly, an early draft did not include the commitment that nothing should be done which might prejudice the rights of the non-Jewish communities. These changes came about partly as the result of the urgings of Edwin Samuel Montagu, an influential anti-Zionist Jew and Secretary of State for India, who, among others, was concerned that the declaration without those changes could result in increased anti-Semitic persecution. "
In otherwords the british were saying as nice as they could "We're going to rob you of a lot of your land."
You can argue it all you want and see it through your own goggles.... but the british were the ones doing the "spinning."
The intent of the Balfour Declaration was simply to remove non jewish people out of areas of Palestne which they were planning to give to the Jews.
Probably even more then they ended up getting.
