Editorial Note
If Israel & Palestine are unwilling to come to the negotiating table of the present, they will be condemned to live in the past in the future.
In the fall of November 1917, Lord Walter Rothschild, the influential British banker and pre-eminent leader of the Zionist Movement, coaxed the British imperial government to sign the ‘Balfour Declaration’. It pledged a home in Palestine for the scattered Jewish diaspora around the world. Little did the British cabinet know that this categorical approval of ‘Jewish Homecoming’ into the ‘Promised Land’ of their ‘Tanakh’ (Jewish Bible) and the Arab- Israeli war of 1948 that followed, would trigger human rights violations and ruthless evictions of indigenous Arab families in the Palestinian heartland.