I'm literally in shock having read above article written by you, both gentlemen. A misleading and un-accurate recent Jewish-Zionist history in a nutshell. No colonial power was behind the State of Israel's establishment, but rather the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, who strongly opposed the will of the two main colonial powers, Britain and France, to create new colonies in the Middle-East, after World War I, suggested and was accepted by the League of Nations, the creation under a Mandate System of three new independent states, two Arab, Iraq and Syria-Lebanon, and a Jewish state, with the most incredible words in the Preamble of the "Mandate for Palestine", League of Nations, 24th of July 1922, " Whereas recognition has thereby be given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country". The tragedy of the Jewish people was that the Left majority of the Zionist movement disowned the idea of an independent Jewish state (in fact Herzl's doctrine) that could have been created, as was Iraq, in the early thirties and by this way preventing the Shoah! A Mandate is a TRUST! But the British snapped one's finger to the "Mandate for Palestine", the road map they had to follow, they behaved as a colonial power, betrayed and the League of Nations and the Jewish people, and made all efforts to torpedo an eventual Jewish state. The British Marine imposed a blockade on the Palestine shore, preventing Jews fleeing Europe, to land, while hundreds of thousands Muslims entered illegally the country through all none guarded territorial borders, in fact illegal migrants that created the actual bluff of a Palestinian nation. The November 1947 UN partition proposal was of no value, as all United Nations' General Assembly resolutions are just none-binding proposals. And the Green Line is just the cease-fire line drawn with a green pencil by Israeli and Jordanian military, and both declared that this line will never be considered as a final border. Should we conclude that Israel has no international recognized borders? No! It is the League of Nations that drew the borders of the Jewish state. The "Mandate for Palestine" gave the Jewish people the IRREVOCABLE RIGHT to settle anywhere between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights, to create their Independent Jewish State. This right became International Law, valid to this day, and reaffirmed by Article 80 of the United Nations' Charter. A rather different history, Dear Gentlemen, then yours written down in you article.

I happen to disagree with the professor, it was the colonial powers, Britain, Allied Powers that favoured creation of Israel in violation of article 22 of League of Nations mandate, Far from Colonial powers ,I happen do agree with the view he ascribes to Palestinians and in an thesis to his assertion argue that The Foreign powers were indeed , the main impetus and gravitational push and force behind the establishment of Israel and its current and contemporaneous existence is largely an external colonial project and an on-going Neo colonial dependent client state for US , without UK and US who even after 1948 have continued to support Israel with nuclear technology , arms, US alone has been covering up Nuclear programme, Germans gave Israel submarine, EU special trade enables Israel to survive so historOn Recent Maliki comment on Balfour Declaration, many others have since 2013 raised the issue and many Palestinian people, including Historian and Lecturer James Renton in an article thesis in Hareetz 2013 ; had proposed the question as to whether Britain should apologize for the Balfour Declaration? ; Palestinian Refugee centre later also requested an apology and since then centenary celebration and remembrance of First World War continues and next year 2017 is decisive 100 years in Belfour Declaration, Jury is still out…….There is a widespread view both in academia and throughout middle east and globe by international scholars that "The Balfour Declaration, and its implementation by the British mandate in Palestine from 1920, culminated in Israel's creation in 1948, and the wholesale dispossession of the Palestinian people. As such, every anniversary of the declaration should be used to highlight Britain's central responsibility for the Palestinians' plight, and its continued refusal to right a monumental wrong. This compelled Al Maliki to join the debate. [Al Jazeera]y shows the opposite of his assertion which echoes Ben Gurion, ....... .....I have written extensive rebuttal of his assertion and it can be found in my face book. .....Revision of history is by the Zionist , at firts they stated Israle was a land without its people, themn myth was debunked and now new scholars are self deceptively revising history and as for what Palestinian teach children, they have right to self determination, how about Israel does it teach teach about ethnic cleansing ?....Al Maliki is right Israel was given illegally to a people who had no history there in last 2000 years and under international law allied powers and Britian violated international law and that is why Palestinians remain stateless.