HaAretz Channeling the Palestinian Liberation Organization

The newpaper HaAretz acts as if joining enemy campaigns to isolate and weaken Israel they are doing a great service to the world. Today, they publish an article dedicated to justify, to legitimize, to transmit and to amplify the PLO's latest attack on Israel. The PLO strategy is to impress the world that the State of Israel as the creation of the British Government. The British Empire is considered, in the UK most of all, unrivaled evil, and everything related to it is nefarious and sinful and against the laws of Nature.

Gideon Levy, HaAretz's chief columnist, denounces the unheard and unprecedented evil of the Brits promising and delivering a country they did not own to a people that did not exist and did not live there. The PLO line is that Israel is an imperial creation, illegitimate, and they imagine that retracting Balfour's personal note to Rothschild, time will flow backwards and Israel will evaporate as if never existed. That dream is infantile, because apart from "seeing with favor" (from the distance) the gradual in-gathering of the Jews here, Brits did little or nothing to create Israel. On the contrary, they established the Arab Legion with British officers and finance, to fight the Jewish Defense Forces, and negated half of Eretz Israel to Jewish settlement.

During wars and elections it is common practice to make promises to gather support. Politicians (Balfour, above) will promise what they do not possess and do not intend to deliver. Journalist Levy never heard of such thing.The Pope's division of unexplored and unconquered America between Spain and Portugal  in 1494 (pic. "En el nombre de Dios Todopoderoso...") comes to my mind. Should Trump blame the Pope for the creation of Mexico?

Notwithstanding the stupidity of the PLO's campaign to pressure post-Brexit Brits to retract - a hundred years later - Balfour's ambiguous note, HaAretz is harming us by joining the initiative. I would like to believe that Levy is sincerely convinced that by taking the enemy side, he is doing his best to help his country, but cannot. Levy is intelligent and writes so well that it is inconceivable that he is also sane and true.