in the holocaust and many more classic works the balfour declaration makes clear that all group dead even though national rights are being given to the jews to return to their ancient homeland everyone will be treated equally and everyone will have civil rights and this was an absolute. revolution for the world and for the middle east and that's why the balfour declaration and its text was done adopted by the sand remote convention which was the foundation of the. international law and that established along with the league of nations and the mandate for palestine all of these various states i'm sure that you know sean and you know that i know that these maps were also made by people who controlled the oil companies and so it was a british petroleum and to a large extent standard oil and told tal which decided to create arab states in syria lebanon and ultimately jordan was invented by winston churchill in one nine hundred twenty with a memo. you know it's really interesting because what do you know i don't think a lot of people pay enough attention to how you know this chain of even

britain should be with this hundred year anniversary of the balfour declaration the press of the creation of israel well if she considers colonialism racism apartheid and genocide something to be proud of then yes that that was really the ball for declaration began this process of one hundred years into it in which the palestinians have been the victims of dispossession of forced exile of genocide this really genocidal policies living under a brutal apartheid regime if this is something that she feels proud of the then by all means i would recommend that the british parliament begin a process of attracting the balfour declaration and doing everything they can to help the palestinians and they're sending forces to iraq and afghanistan and all these strange places they should send an aircraft carrier to force the siege on gaza to be opened you know and to give people water and to give people medicine at will before the britain's aircraft carrier the new queen elizabeth sails there are others that activists are using you're wearing the b.d.'s badge they're. just tell me about how the boycott

would you know would make justice with the palestinians and not celebrating balfour declaration because this declaration. was displaced and and was exiled and here it was living in a you know different. a place from his origin a village and he got you know he had a very you know hard hard life to rebuild his life from this the killer is in the village destroyed destroyed the disorder now there is a settlement chords. which is near the lands of so for myself me i'm and i'm coming from the same same refugee family you know from other village which my grand brother other my grandfathers was the same story of and this is you know this is started with but for the liberation like the green line was to you know it's. about to happen it was it was the this declaration which was will you people if people maybe maybe their excuse could be ignorant because they're not watching plays like the ones you guys are involved it. talks about the b.b.c. educating them in these day in the village in the war to be before. before the forty eight and then later actually. what do you think make of the way mains

speak to the grandson of a signatory to israel's independence about teresa mayes pride in the balfour declaration and taking the usa to court for terrorism and are doing time like a spy nearly three years to the day that moscow allowed n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden to move to russia with john kiriakou who exposed u.s. torture programs how he used his cia training to survive an obama administration jail sentence but some headlines well review some of the banking baloney when azeris a get out of jail free card for tony blair again the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first there's often violent uprisings in the east end of the british capital continue to protest the perceived injustice of the death of twenty year old black father rush on charles at the hands of metropolitan police the city of london has been eagerly awaiting today's results from weapons dealer be a systems it's a taxpayer funded arms company tendering for contracts with london's police and the way the bailed out city of london's favorite channels have covered be a systems goes something like this area sear

in official balfour declaration if you will in germany and turkey that actually owned the land and havethe right to make sovereign decisions and so of the many states that were created by the map makers in the post world war one. they made syria they made lebanon. and other states iraq they also made the jewish national home which at that time was known as palestine. so what we see here is there was a real opportunity in one nine hundred twenty to have permanent peace it's true the oil companies had a hand in drawing the lines but there were no national borders in the middle east there were no nations in the middle east there were colonies and those colonies. were run by the ottomans and within those colonies were tribes and so what the british did was they actually invented states and allowed the arabs to go into nationhood many of the arabs however did not wish to go into the nation the best way really for to bring peace to the middle east. is remove the moneybags take the cash out. if gutter can remove its fun and the rand could remove its funding for hamas if the united states can s

. >> saying that, you know, arabs favor the balfour declaration and favor the creation of a jewish homeland for which frankfurter took an outsized amount of credit for whatever value it has, but, is it fair to say that frankfurter's devotion to zionism was more in the nature of an assignment? >> very much so. >> frankfurter was -- both brandeis and frankfurter and goldberg, your book recounts beautifully how unbelievably tied in they were to the presidents that appointed them and probably no one more profoundly and integrally as felix frankfurter, i mean, given the long scope of fdr's tenure. >> sure. you can say that probably nobody more profoundly who seemed to spend more time in the white house and the national security council and actually in the supreme court to the point that his law clerks felt free to take naps in the supreme court because they were sure he wasn't going to show up. >> by the way, something i didn't know before this and it was abe fortis who drafted lbj's 1966 state of the union address. >> okay. there's no reason to think that felix frankfurther had an overwhelming

. >> saying that, you know, arabs favor the balfour declaration and favor the creation of a jewish homeland for which frankfurter took an outsized amount of credit. >> credit, and -- >> for whatever value it has. >> yeah. >> but is it fair to say that frankfurter's devotion to zionism was more in the nature of an assignment? >> yes, very much so. >> okay. i'd like you to -- frankfurter was -- both brandeis and frankfurter, and fortas, for that matter, and goldberg were -- your book recounts beautifully how unbelievably tied in they were to the administrations of the priso presidents that appointed them, and probably nobody more profoundly and integrally than felix frankfurter, i mean, given the long scope of fdr's tenure. >> sure, sure. >> i mean, you can say that probably nobody more profoundly than abe fortas, who seemed to spend more time in the white house and in the national security council than actually in the supreme court. >> and by the way -- >> to the point that his law clerks felt free to take naps in the supreme court -- >> that's right. >> -- because they were sure he wasn't g