Another Balfour Declaration
Another Balfour Declaration History repeats itself—do you recall the infamous Balfour Declaration, when Britain during World War I pledged support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine? It was, as many said, a promise from those who had no right to give, to those who had no rightful claim. And yesterday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado played a similar role when she bestowed upon Trump her own version of a “Nobel Peace Prize”—a prize he long coveted, even to the point of igniting wars just to claim he ended them. Norway, unsurprisingly, is embarrassed. The prize’s reputation has already been tarnished, especially after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won it in 2019, only to plunge his country into a devastating civil war in Tigray within a year, leaving hundreds of thousands dead. The moral of this chaos? Our world floats atop a poisoned lake, surviving in the illusion of order while drowning in concealed disorder. وعد بلفور آخر: م...

