Declaration of sympathy

In the course of the current anti-Israeli excitement, much is being written about the Balfour Declaration. I re-read it (see left) and it is a simple declaration of sympathy, not much more. People are writing that the Declaration must be annulled, as if this postcard created the State of Israel, and it could be erased by retracting it. The then-inexistent Palestinian Authority is trying to extort billions for the supposed damage caused to it by England's sympathy in 1917. These days, the United Nations is declaring the existence of a State of Palestine, as if all were a question of declarations and counter-declarations. 

Where are they living? asked an Israeli politician. Certainly not on this planet.