The UK government marked a “day of ultimate shame” by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which led to Israel’s creation, says a scholar in London.
Dr. Rodney Shakespeare made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, two days after UK Prime Minister Theresa May commemorated the 1917 declaration by holding a series of events attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
After throwing a banquet for the occasion on Thursday night, May said that her country was “proud of our pioneering role in the creation of the state of Israel,” as well as the “relationship we have built with Israel.”
The document, signed by then British Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour emboldened Israel to proclaim existence after capturing huge swathes of Arab land in a war in 1948.
In 1967, it proceeded to capture more Palestinian territory in another war and then started propping up scores of…