Falastin / La Palestine: special English edition for Lord Balfour's visit, 'J'accuse!' (Jaffa, 25 March 1925)

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[Arabic line above masthead] عدد خاص باللغة الانكليزية صدر يوم قدوم اللورد بلفور

Prop. and Responsible Editor
I. D. Elissa
Jaffa
P. O. B. 194
Tel. No. 94

فلسطين
La Palestine

Jaffa, March 25th, 1925.   Wednesday   يافا في ٢٥ اذار سنة ١٩٢٥ الاربعا

A Special Edition in English issued on the occasion
of the visit to Palestine of LORD BALFOUR,
the statesman with whose name is associated the Declaration
which to the Arabs signifies the death knell of
all the hopes they cherished when the victorious
British Armies entered their country in 1918

"FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES".
Ephesians VI. 12.

J'ACCUSE !
1. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, of having allowed itself to become a tool in the hands of the Jews for the purpose of furthering their Nationalist aims in Palestine.
2. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, of seeking to administer in Palestine a Mandate which is incompatible with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League under which the Mandatory system is set up.
3. THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE, of pursuing with open eyes a policy which, by granting a favoured position to the Jewish minority, is unjust to the Arab majority in Palestine.

I call upon
The British Parliament, the people of the British Empire, and the League of Nations, to demand of the Government of Palestine, that the words of the ROYAL PROCLAMATION read in Jerusalem and Haifa in July 1920 by the High Commissioner for Palestine; and those of the ANGLO-FRENCH DECLARATION of November 1918, issued in Palestine by Lord Allenby, shall be respected, viz:-

a. THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION
" TO THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE "
« I desire to assure you of the absolute imprtiality with which the duties of the Mandatory Power will be carried out, and of the determination of My Government to respect the rights of every race and every creed represented among you.... »
GEORGE R. and I.

b. THE ANGLO-FRENCH DECLARATION
« The object aimed at by France and Great Britain ... is, the complete and definite emancipation of the peoples so long oppressed by the Turks, and the establishment of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the initiative and free choice of the indigenous populations.... »

Imperium in Imperio
«It is not Great Britain which is taking the Jewish International into its service, as the head of the Government in London imagined; it is more likely that Jewish international finance is attempting to take Britain into its service so as to assure world control for itself.... We are actually facing a gigantic effort on the part of Jewish international imperialism to win the game; it is the victorious undertaking of pan-Judaism. Far from being favoured, as England has secretly imagined, she is the first to be menaced.... [remainder of the excerpt, ending 'it is the duty of these to arise and not permit it to do so', not transcribed]
( From " Le problème Juif " by Georges Batault. Paris.)

[Also not transcribed: the Newton letter, 'Zionist Colonisation' with the Rothschild interview extract, 'The Balfour Declaration' paragraph and its Fortnightly Review (Jan. 1924, Capt. C. D. Brunton) footnote, and faint reverse-side bleed-through.]

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Arabic lines: masthead 'Falastin' ('Palestine'); 'Special issue in the English language, issued on the day of the arrival of Lord Balfour'; proprietor and responsible editor 'Issa Daoud al-Issa'; Jaffa, P.O. Box 194, telephone 94; 'Jaffa, 25 Adhar (March) 1925, Wednesday'. The rest is English as printed.

Read from 1280 px crops of the committed image. English verbatim, including the printed typo 'imprtiality'. Columns other than those shown are summarised in square brackets, not transcribed. Arabic read directly from the short masthead lines; translation machine-made, not checked by a fluent reader.