Balfour declaration.
The 1917 expression of favor for “a national home for the Jewish people” in their ancestral homeland, made by the Foreign Secretary of the British Empire.

There are many ways the Anti Zionists have expressed about this declaration, but the average sentiment can be seen through a quote by Edward Said- the Palestinian-American cultural theorist:
​"What is important about the Balfour Declaration is that it was made by a European power... about a non-European territory…”

Yes… because this is so unique, right?

Even before we address the morals behind this declaration-
Literally every major empire during WW1 engaged in a strategy of partition plans, territorial bribes and independence pledges to cause proxy revolts and unrest in places that very often were outside the European continent.

Some of those promises, became artificial countries that never existed before- such as Iraq and Jordan.

When it comes to Britain:
➡️ In 1915 they promised the Tsarist Russia- Constantinopol, the Turkish straits and portions of Ottoman Anatolia.

➡️ In 1915 they also promised Italy parts of Ottoman Anatolia, South Tyrol, Trieste, Istria, Dalmatia, Dodecanese islands and parts of Northern and Eastern Africa.

➡️ In 1916 they promised to the Sheriff of Mecca an independent Arab kingdom spanning from Greater Syria (mind that Syria is not exactly Arabia) to the Arabian peninsula.

➡️ Later that year they directly contradicted that promise by signing the Sykes-Picot with France.

➡️ In 1917 they promised India a “gradual development of self-governing institutions”.

➡️ In 1918 they had to falsely reassure the Sheriff of Mecca that Sykes-Picot won’t get in the way of the great independent Arab kingdom.

➡️ Later that year they contradicted that reassurance as well, by signing the “Declaration to the Seven”. A commitment to seven Syrian political leaders guaranteeing full sovereignty for Arab territories liberated by native Arab armies.

➡️ In 1918 cane the Anglo-French declaration promising the “complete and final liberation” of populations under Ottoman rule and the establishment of local national governments based on self determination.

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And like I said earlier- You know about Britain because they issued the Balfour declaration (and because they were on the winning side).

However here are more promises made by other parties in that war:

Germany.
➡️ In 1917 they offered Mexico- Texas, New Mexico and Arizona- in exchange for engaging in war against the U.S.

➡️ In 1916 together with Austro-Hungary they promised to create an independent kingdom of Poland, carved out of Russian territory.

➡️ The same year, India got a promise of independence from them.

➡️ In 1918, they already “recognized” the independence of Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia.

You want more? There you go:

France.
➡️ In 1916, they promised Cilicia to the Armenians.

Russia.
➡️ In 1914, promised to grant an autonomous Polish state.

And this is far from being a full list.

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So what is it with the Palestinian cause trying to inflate its victimhood for decades- while at almost any given moment being hardly a minor incident on the global scale?

Those pro Palis who are cheering for the imperialistic rhetoric by Turkey’s President Erdogan, about “freeing Jerusalem” just because this rhetoric is anti Jewish- as usual need some historical reminder.

If they think that the Palestinians are mistreated by Israel, and need Turkey to free them- oh sweet child of mine.

Historically, even the idea of Arab nationalism- let alone an obnoxious one as the Palestinian cause has been made to be- was suppressed brutally by the Ottoman empire, that Erdogan wants to revive.

Want some examples? There you go:

➡️ 1811-18, The crashing of the First Saudi State.

Emir Saud bin Abdulaziz managed to expand across most of the Arabian peninsula, including Mecca and Medina. Such strive for independence has brought an invasion by Ottoman’s proxy forces- resulting in the destruction of the Saudi capital, thousands of casualties, the execution of Emir Abdullah bin Saud (the successor of Emir Saud), and the dismantling of Najdi self-rule.

➡️ 1870s-1910s
Freedom of expression? Nope.
Instead- censorship and banning of Arab cultural and political societies.
The Arabic press in Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo was censored by the state. Intellectuals were exiled.

➡️ 1904-14, Asir (today’s Saudi Arabia) and Yemen.

Imam Yahya and Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi in the Yemeni highlands and in Asir-sought local autonomy. The Ottomans weren’t too excited about the idea and deployed thousands of troops to suppress both movements.

➡️ 1910, Karak and Hawran.

To enforce centralizing “Turkification" policies, Ottomans launched heavy military campaigns against Druze and Bedouins across Transjordan and Syria. It ended in massacres of thousands of people, public hangings, and forced enlistment into the Ottoman military.

➡️ 1913-14, Putting the Paris Arab Congress participants under surveillance.

When Arab intellectuals and politicians met at the First Arab Congress in Paris to demand official recognition of Arabic in government and regional administrative decentralization, the Ottomans placed key attendees under state surveillance.

➡️ 1914, Arrest and purge of Arab officers.

The Ottomans arrested Major Aziz Ali al-Misri, a decorated officer and co-founder of the nationalist society Al-Ahd, and sentenced him to death by a military tribunal on charges of sparking public protests across Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad.
Later, a diplomatic pressure forced them to exile him instead.
Alongside him- dozens of Arab officers were forced out of their positions.

➡️ 1914–1915

After the outbreak of World War I, The Ottomans seized document archives left behind in the French consulates in Beirut and Damascus. After finding correspondence between local Arab leaders and European diplomats regarding Arab administrative reform- raids, mass arrests, and military tribunals followed.

➡️ 1915–1916 Public Executions in Beirut and Damascus. 32 Arab nationalist leaders publicly executed by hanging.

➡️ 1915-18 Systematic Exiles and Mass Deportations.

As collective punishment for real or suspected Arab nationalistic sympathies, the Ottoman military regime deported thousands of prominent Arab families, civil servants, and military personnel from the Levant to central Anatolia.

➡️ 1915-18, The Siege and Famine of Mount Lebanon.
To neutralize potential Arab insurgencies, the Ottomans imposed a blockade around Mount Lebanon, preventing the entry of supplies- leading to the death of ~ 250000 civilians-nearly half the region's population.

➡️ 1916-19, Depopulation and Repression in Medina.

When Sharif Hussein bin Ali declared the Great Arab Revolt in June 1916, Ottoman forces deported over 40,000 Arab residents of Medina to Syria and Anatolia, took grain reserves, and executed revolt sympathizers.

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To repeat the words of the wannabe Sultan- Erdogan:
“In our history, there is no genocide, no massacres, no opression, and no colonialism. Throughout our entire… history, there has been only justice and compassion”…

Yeah… you can hardly even call it gaslighting when so many useful idiots want to repeat the history they don’t know.

Saudi Arabia, makes a pact with Turkey and Pakistan:
“If there is any aggression against one member state, all three member states will respond”.

The Houthis advance in Yemen and attack Saudi infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia:
“Trump, help!”

“It was promised to them 3000 years ago…”

Having a hard time to accept pro Israeli arguments based on the bible? That’s ok- me personally too. That’s why I like archaeology so much- it scientifically confirms, and sometimes even quotes parts of the bible- without telling me to simply believe in it.

The example in the Substack article below, is one of the dozens of findings that do exactly that- explicitly mentioning entities, incidents and names- described in the bible.

https://talkingpointil.substack.com/p/the-stele-of-tel-dan

“But Herodotus called it Palestine!”

An argument I hear too often from pro Palis who feel that they have hit some jackpot of a historical argument.

To those unfamiliar:
Herodotus was a Historian and Geographer who lived in the 5th century BCE.

Now, if he already referred to the land as “Palestine”, then the Israeli argument about the name Palestine being given to Judea by Romans in the 1st century CE- would sound inaccurate.

But did he?

First-
Even if he did-
Palestinians are Arabs, Philistines were European.
Meaning, modern day Palestinians still have nothing to do with ancient Philistines and with whichever name the land was contemporarily called.

Second- what land exactly did he refer to?

It most certainly was not the “West Bank”:
• Not Judea, which was part of autonomy called- Yehud Medinata, which literally translates from Aramaic as “Judean province”.
• ⁠Not Samaria, which was called Shamrayn Medinata- “Samarian province”.

It also wasn’t Jerusalem,
Which also was part of the same Yehud Medinata autonomy.

Here is the quote by Herodotus himself:
“And from Phoenicia this peninsula runs beside our sea [the Mediterranean] by way of the Syrian Palestine and Egypt, which is at the end of it..."

So, in other words:
“Between Phoenicia in the north and Egypt in the south”.

The Phoenician southern limits under the Persian rule in the 5th century BCE- included the sea ports of Jaffa and Ashkelon.
The center of Ashkelon is less than ten kilometres away from Gaza…

So, when Herodotus said “Palestine”, he roughly meant a widened version of the Gaza strip-
where 700 years prior to that, the seafarers from Crete have settled.

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And to restate the obvious- the modern day Palestinians have nothing to do with those seafarers.

I knew that NAZA “documentary”- blaming Israel for various crimes while using exclusively anonymous sources with distorted voices-
Reminded me of something.

Teddy Katz.
Another Israeli that decided to make himself useful to the anti Zionist cause.

The guy was an academic who chose for his thesis to interview veterans of the IDF Alexandroni brigade about the battle of Tantura.

Once he had it all on tape, he heavily distorted much of what they said- to fit the predefined narrative of a “massacre”.

In his case- he wasn’t experienced enough in the business, in order to claim that he got all his information from anonymous sources, while recording some random guys saying what he wanted to hear.
Due to that blunder- he was eventually stripped of his degree for heavy fabrications, after the actual veterans whom he has interviewed under their real names- sued him for defamation.

The NAZA producers have learned and implemented his lesson:

Have you ever seen a live stream from a biblical battle?

The Lachish letters are as close as it gets to such experience-

2600 years old documents giving us an insider’s perspective on the Babylonian assault against the fortified cities of Judea in 587-586 BCE.

The same assault that was described in the book of Jeremiah in the bible, while using surprisingly similar expressions, names and chronological order.

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Go to the Substack article for details:
https://talkingpointil.substack.com/p/the-lachish-letters

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Has anyone seen any Palestinian kingdom’s coins lately?

I assume many of you have seen the footage of what looks like a mass walkout, that happened the moment Netanyahu took the stage for his speech in the UN.
That did look dramatic.

However, as it usually goes with anti Israeli actions-
It is enough to have just a little context to understand how staged the entire thing is.

Here are just a few numbers:

• 193.
Is the total number of the UN member states.

• ⁠~70.
Is the number of countries that were reported to actively get up and leave.

• ⁠~30-60.
The approximate average number of countries represented in the main hall during a speech of an average country leader. (According to diplomatic observers and journalists who cover the UNGA).
Many of these 30-60 countries are routinely represented by junior diplomats and placeholders. Each delegation might consist of one to six delegates.

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Hold on…
So routinely we have 30-60 countries, many times represented by 1-3 junior diplomats,
But Netanyahu’s speech began with an exodus of ~70 full delegations?

Well, this is where it gets interesting:
According to outlets like LA Times, The Irish Times, AFP and The Guardian-
The Palestinian Mission to the UN, messaged many of the UN member states with the request to “bring as many staff as possible” into the General Assembly hall and to “collectively walk out” once Netanyahu is announced.

So yeah- it was a staged virtue signalling performance- like most of the pro Palestinian circus.

Anyway, back to the numbers:
• 35.
The least number of countries that were confirmed to have been actively represented during the speech.

That’s not including many of the remaining unlisted UN member states likely having low-level staffers sitting as placeholders, and the EU delegation.
(Surprising as it may be- there is no full official list).

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Bottom line:
Netanyahu’s speech had a very much average attendance - at least.

That’s when we speak about the physical attendance.
When it comes to broadcasts and livestreams- many of them reported higher ratings for Netanyahu than even for Trump.

In the opening round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad, 119th-ranked Pakistan was drawn against Israel- a former top-five chess power and multi-time Olympiad medalist currently ranked 18th in the world.

​The average player in Israel's top 10 is a Grandmaster.
The average player in Pakistan's top 10 is a Candidate Master…

​Unsurprisingly, the Pakistani team boycotted the match.
​As a result, they were handed a 4–0 forfeit loss, but secured their own portion of virtue signaling.
​Had they sat at the board, the outcome would have been the same but without the patting on the back.

Like any other boycott action against Israel, this one mirrors the others pretty well-
The ones practicing it, can’t possibly reach anywhere near the level of what they are trying to boycott.

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Oh and.. do not forget that Pakistan was one of the only three countries to recognize the Jordanian sovereignty over the West Bank at the expense of the Palestinians.

On top of the future Pakistani President Zia Ul Haq- leading a brutal assault against the Palestinians during the Black September in 1970.

It was only a matter of time before the Islamic regime’s propaganda and their useful parrots started saying that the “Fly Dubai” hijacking attempt was in fact “a false flag by the Mossad”.

Evidently, the Iranian state propaganda outlet “Fars”, has already published a statement made by the Iranian intelligence claiming that the Mossad has prepared “an operation under a foreign flag” against airplanes or airports in the region, in order to place the blame on Iran.

Well, as the popular saying goes: “The thieve’s hat is on fire”.

But it is nothing new, really-
As the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman said:
“Tell me what you accuse the Jews of- and I'll tell you what you're guilty of”.

Nearly every country that accuses Israel of a certain malpractice, simple testifies against itself of what it has done wrong.

See for yourself:

➡️ The Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Calls Israel (and the U.S.) “Epstein coalition”.
• ⁠Permits marrying off girls younger than 9 years old without prohibiting marital rpe.

➡️ Turkey.
• Accuses Israel of occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
• ⁠Currently occupies 36% of Cyprus and 8% of Syria, while committing ethnic cleansing and population replacement in both. Not to mention the Genocides against the Armenians, Assyrians and the Greeks.

➡️ Pakistan.
• Accuses Israel of being a colonialist invention, created through ethnic cleansing and massacres.
• ⁠Pakistan was literally made up by Great Britain. Its creation lead to one million casualties and fifteen million (!!) refugees-according to conservative estimations.

➡️ Russia.
• Officially pointed out that permanent territorial changes made by force are unacceptable.
• ⁠mmmkay…

➡️ Saudi Arabia.
• Blames Israel for the humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
• ⁠The blockade imposed by the Saudi led coalition in 2015-22, caused a quarter of a million people (!) to starve to death in Yemen.

➡️ North Korea.
• Blamed Israel for human rights violations.
• ⁠Bruh…

➡️ Indonesia.
• Describes Israeli actions as colonialism, expansionism and oppression.
• ⁠In 1969, Indonesia occupied West Papua through threats and a staged voting. Since then, the indigenous population lives under repressions, constant military interventions and a crippling ethnic cleansing. To understand the scale of it- this is an area 70 times larger than Judea, Samaria and Gaza combined.

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And I can continue this list on and on and on…

“False flag!”
Was naturally among the comments I found under posts talking about the recent hijacking attempt.

When you challenge those who write those comments, by asking - “how do you know?”,
The answer is essentially the same every time:
“Because Israel has a history of blaming their attacks on others”.

Does it?
Because if challenged further, regarding specifics- those useful parrots are always able to come up with only a single 70 years old incident, that did not target Israelis nor Jews.
(The Lavon affair which was aimed at convincing the British not to leave Egypt).

Some of them go further and quote pseudo historians who claim that the 1950-51 Baghdad bombings, were a false flag aimed at convincing the Iraqi Jews to leave for Israel-
Heavily relying on the fact that the Iraqi government blamed the bombings on two Iraqi Jews and executed them.
Worth noting that the latter have denied everything until the very end.

Those who make this claim, conveniently ignore the Nazi propaganda that prevailed in Iraq, the Farhud pogrom, the apartheid against the Iraqi Jews, the state hostility and surveillance, the arbitrary arrests, the economic pressure, the denaturalization law, the assets freezing and above all:
The exit visa deadlines the Iraqi government has set, after which the Jews would not have been allowed to leave while still being stripped of most of their possessions.

The vast majority of the Iraqi Jews rushed to meet those deadlines anyway.

Oh and the peak of the irony here, is that the deadliest of those “false flag” bombings, was carried out against a crowd of Iraqi Jews who have already gathered to register for leaving the country…

Bottom line:
No matter how hard they try to support the claim of a “History Israel has with false flags”-
They manage to squeeze out a single 70 years old incident that never targeted Jews nor Israelis,
And a 75 years old fabrication.
That’s the “rich history of false flags” they are talking about.

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You gotta give it to the Pro Palis - they very rarely let facts and reality get in the way of their narratives.

The automatic reaction for a normal person here- is to call the Palestinians thankless. Which they are, but that is not the main point:

➡️ Saudi Arabia gains nothing from the Palestinians, while it would have gained a lot from a full scale cooperation with Israel.

➡️ The Palestinians, as you can see, at best- do not care about Saudi Arabia.

➡️ Evidently, the main point is that supporting the Palestinian cause these days- is surely not about supporting the Palestinians themselves, but about buying temporary quiet.

It is relevant for both- Europe and the Middle East.
It is about knowing that the Palestinian cause is tied to the most vile, aggressive and at the same time- well coordinated parts of your society,
And that openly turning your back on it- comes with a cost.

Naturally, appeasing the bully makes it only worse in the long run.
But I guess most politicians care first and foremost about their time at the political apex- passing by with the least friction possible.