Analysis of the Balfour Declaration

In 1917, over a hundred years ago, Arthur Balfour, the

British Foreign Secretary, a card-carrying anti-Semite, a man who had

denounced the evils of Jewish immigration into the UK, a man who

referred to Jews as an alien and hostile people, he issued his

Balfour Declaration.

Balfour. We heard him quoted to you earlier,

ladies and gentlemen.

Well, let's be clear about that quote and what,

uh, was changed, or at least misrepresented,

because I think this is gonna give a

really strong indication for what is coming out of the opposition as a

whole. We were told he'd referred to Jews as

alien and

hostile. In fact, that he was therefore an anti-Semite.

Well, I'm gonna read you out the quote, and you make up your own minds.

He said,

"Mitigate the age-long miseries created for Western

civilization by the presence in its midst of a body

which it too long regarded as alien and

even hostile, but which it was equally unable to

expel or absorb."

So I encourage you very strongly not to take for granted what the opposition are

telling you tonight.