Will it ever regret its current support for the genocidal “Palestinian” jihad? Probably not.
“Referring to its then editor, CP Scott, the paper said his support of Zionism ‘blinded him to Palestinian rights.'”
Maybe CP Scott was “blinded” to “Palestinian rights” because in 1917, there were no “Palestinians.”
The appalling display of “Palestinian” victimhood propaganda by the Guardian, as well as by Islamic supremacist and Leftist politicians, ignores the manifest fact that there never was a state of “Palestine” at any time in history, or a “Palestinian” people until the 1960s, as The Palestinian Delusion explains. At that time, a certain segment of Levantine Arabs were so designated for political purposes, to create a people even tinier than the people of the State of Israel, so as to offset the public sympathy for the underdog Israel surrounded by giant and hostile Arab Muslim states. PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said this in 1977:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.
Nor are there any “Palestinian” refugees. Refugee status was never before granted to the refugee’s children and children’s children; only the “Palestinians” have the honor of never settling anywhere else and getting on with their lives, so consumed are they with jihad-inspired hatred for Israel that they are interested in pursuing nothing else — as are all the Arab states surrounding Israel, none of which except Jordan granted the “Palestinians” citizenship or a chance to live a normal life: they, too, wanted to maintain “Palestinian” “refugee” status as a stick they could use to beat Israel. And you can see from this resolutely doctrinaire and clueless Guardian editorial how well it has worked.
“The Guardian: Backing Balfour Declaration among our ‘worst errors of judgment,’” Times of Israel, May 8, 2021:
Over a hundred years after backing the UK government’s Balfour Declaration, The Guardian newspaper said it regrets its enthusiastic support for the famous statement recognizing a national home for Jews in historic Palestine.
In an editorial published Friday to mark its bicentennial, the Guardian listed the “worst errors of judgment” the British daily has made since its founding in 1821.
These “mistakes” included supporting the 1917 declaration issued by then foreign secretary Arthur Balfour, a document seen as a key milestone in the State Israel’s establishment and which the Guardian described as having “changed the world.”
“The Guardian of 1917 supported, celebrated and could even be said to have helped facilitate the Balfour declaration,” the left-leaning newspaper wrote.
Referring to its then editor, CP Scott, the paper said his support of Zionism “blinded him to Palestinian rights.”
“In 1917 he wrote [an editorial] on the day the Balfour declaration was announced, in which he dismissed any other claim to the Holy Land, saying: ‘The existing Arab population of Palestine is small and at a low stage of civilization.’ Whatever else can be said, Israel today is not the country the Guardian foresaw or would have wanted,” the column stated….
born saturday says
guardian, good for toilet paper… again, they are sure the muslims will not use it as such cause the muslims dont use toilet paper at all as their satan prohibits…. so there you go there is a use even for writers of the sewer in the future, the political leg of islam in europe and nothing more than that… the enemy of every non muslim…..
Rob says
What did this paper have to say when Jordan was established out of the same territory in 1925?
Raja says
I am sorry for all the mistakes I made in life but should institutions be sorry for their act of commission or omissions of over 100 years? What a pathetic virtue signalling !!!
Left should do some soul searching and LOOK for more of their blunders especially when they ignored truth, justice, fairness, commonsense and so on.
Perhaps they should regret being alive and take a jump in Atlantic ocean, that will save lots of heartache for saner population.
gravenimage says
Besides, no one should feel guilty about having supported Israel at one time.
Infidel says
In 1917, there were ‘Palestinians’. They were the Jews!
Maybe the Guardian could cancel itself in the same spirit as the woke culture where people have to forego life opportunities such as a new job, a job promotion, a marriage and so on for committing ‘crimes’ that were not ‘crimes’ at the time they were committed. Like the Bachelor’s Rachael Kirkconnell who after winning the competition was denied the marriage b’cos years ago, she dressed up like Scarlet O’Hara at a Southern Belle themed party. Similarly, since CP Scott supported the Balfour declaration, the Guardian should abolish itself, return all money to its shareholders and give all its employees severence checks
After all, don’t the Palestinians deserve justice for this heinous oversight of the Guardian?
gravenimage says
Good point.
tim gallagher says
That’s a good way to put it, Robert Spencer, “back when it was sane”. From my point of view, I hear a lot of the leftist crap, on many issues (a lot of this nutty woke garbage and the cancel culture’s bullshit) and I often think, that’s insane. A lot of the left wingers” agenda seems to be completely out of touch with reality.
nicholas tesdorf says
The Grauniad is best used as a fish-and-chip wrapper.
maria says
the Guardian is stalinist and mohamedan organization. They should be treated like the nazis because they are ne nazis and racists
somehistory says
I can apologize and/or regret my own mistakes. I cannot do the same for mistakes/errors that my parents or grandparents or great-grandparents, etc. made and it mean a blooming thing. Nor can I regret what the original owner of a business I worked for several years ago; a business that was started way back in a previous century…not last one, did that some may say was a mistake.
My great grandfather may not feel as though he made the mistakes that I believe he made; he may view them as good decisions, great actions, worthwhile pursuits.
The guys who are running the paper now are not the same guys as ran the paper a hundred years ago. If so, they would be further on the road to senility due to old age than is joe biden.
The guys at the helm now are idiots…in more ways than one. One is saying it was the “worst” thing to support it, and another is “apologizing” for something that someone else did…not even a relative, most likely. And something that they would not consider a mistake.
mozlums are playing Chicken and the foolish of the world are clucking first.
Andrew Blackadder says
Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away from reality in Olde England Land, there stood a newspaper of renown called the Guardian, and their name said it all, however things change, generations come and go, and today we see that this once great Newspaper, that wrote BOTH sides of a story, imagine that, and now the entire paper from the top down are really just a bunch of trashy, self righteous, morons that have their collective heads stuck up each other arses.
This is how I describe the paper when Im feeling compassionate towards them..
Jayell says
The Grauniad is the house magazine of the BBC – well, it might as well be, because it’s only the revenue from advertising BBC jobs that’s keeping it from total bankruptcy.
Infidel says
Why, they couldn’t get someone like Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook to buy it and pour money into it, like Bezos does w/ the Washington Post?
Norman Gardner gardner says
The author of the report criticizing the 1917 support of the Balfour declaration was written by a Muslim so in my opinion it is a worthless and insulting criticism of a mature and moral decision by J.C. Scott. The Guardian has turned into a worthless rag and should be shunned since it does not represent journalism or facts, just leftist garbage attempting to undermine democracy.
gravenimage says
Thanks for noting that this story is from a Mohammedan.
gravenimage says
UK’s hard-left Guardian sorry for the time when it was sane, regrets support for Balfour Declaration
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Just appalling.
guest says
PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 1977:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.”