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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					03/11/2010 &#8211; 10:28 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; First deputy speaker of  the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Baher stated that  apologizing for the Palestinian people and providing them with all forms  of political and economic support are the minimum atonement accepted  from Britain for its political and moral crime represented in its  Balfour declaration.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a statement on the 93rd anniversary of  Balfour declaration, Dr. Baher said that Britain is fully responsible  for all crimes and calamities that have been befalling the Palestinian  people since it pledged to give Jews a homeland in Palestine.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He added that Britain&#8217;s crime did not end  with its Balfour declaration, but it persisted in giving all kinds of  support and protection for the establishment of Israel and is still  providing it with political cover for its crimes and racist stands  without any regard for freedom values and human rights principles which  it (Britain) brags about in public.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;This painful anniversary constitutes an  essential stimulus to full national rallying around the inalienable  Palestinian constants and rights, especially the refugees&#8217; right of  return,&#8221; the Palestinian lawmaker said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;Adhering to our right to resist the  occupation, protecting our national unity and providing elements of  steadfastness and fortitude for our people are the optimal guarantee for  sustaining our national process and saving our just cause from being  liquidated and targeted by the American administration and its  international and regional allies in cahoots with some of our  compatriots, the lawmaker highlighted.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For his part, senior Hamas official Ali  Baraka stated that the emergence of ill-fated Balfour declaration in  November 1917 confirmed the Euro-American conspiracy against the  Palestinian people and Britain&#8217;s support for the Zionist gangs which  committed massacres against the Palestinian people and displaced them  from their homes.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a press release on Tuesday, Baraka held  Britain historically and morally responsible for the plight (Nakba)  that befell them in 1948.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;The Nakba happened when Balfour  declaration was implemented, so Britain bears responsibility for all  disasters and tragedies of the Palestinian people that resulted from the  Balfour declaration,&#8221; the Hamas official emphasized.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He demanded the British government to  redress the past mistakes, do justice to the Palestinian people and get  them back their historical rights, primarily their right to return to  their homes they were expelled from.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7xlA82vpzIyKYZ9X5L1kIiUvka%2fjPwEp%2f0d0OA1QvkYsbmsUjqmo6adauC0CxFau0uAuOMJpx9lp6Vd8%2bwFvs%2f2PF%2f5nGfy6C1%2f0NLJ921Bc%3d">Baher: Apologizing is the minimum penance accepted from Britain</a>.</p>
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