Through appeals to honour, evil weaves
through nudge, small favour, to deceive
To overturn all rule of law
and in this stead, enslave our poor
False narratives of Holy Land
subdued through stealth, this ‘kerchief dry
Another’s home since time began
where eastern shore, meets desert sky
The King–Crane Commission: appointed at the request of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 – to determine the attitudes of the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine toward the post-World War I settlement of their territories.
This Commission? Recommended: “a national home for the Jewish people” is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish State; nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”
It is important to remember how (to US President Woodrow Wilson’s disappointment) – the US refused to join the League of Nations.
Nonetheless the US did join the United Nations Organization in 1945 and her successive US Presidential Offices bear a great deal of responsibility for the appalling extent of contemporary Palestine’s compromise. (Native-Palestine’s compromise at home and hence also, in the international arena.) This extent of Palestine’s compromise through US treachery is far from unique in the contemporary world – for the ongoing tragedy of West Papua and West Papuan ‘genocide’ readily springs to mind also.
