This is why UK sanctions against Israel’s West Bank settlers are seismic
- The UK’s decision to impose sanctions on Israel’s project to build illegal Jewish colonies on the occupied West Bank is economically meaningless, mostly impossible to implement but symbolically it is a seismic event.
- Britain’s 20th century history with Israel and the Palestinians has held a special grip on both communities at least since 1917 - the year when a Zionist dream was made real, on paper.
- The so-called Balfour Declaration, a letter sent by then Foreign Secretary James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, has been seen by the Arab world as the original betrayal, a colonial project that has saddl
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- The UK’s decision to impose sanctions on Israel’s project to build illegal Jewish colonies on the occupied West Bank is economically meaningless, mostly impossible to implement but symbolically it is a seismic event.
- Britain’s 20th century history with Israel and the Palestinians has held a special grip on both communities at least since 1917 - the year when a Zionist dream was made real, on paper.
- The so-called Balfour Declaration, a letter sent by then Foreign Secretary James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, has been seen by the Arab world as the original betrayal, a colonial project that has saddl
Sources: The Independent