Quotation from George [Lord Sydenham] Clarke “We have … to start a running sore in the East,” — June 21 1922
British soldier then colonial governor (1901-1913), elevated to Lord in 1913, wrote in 1922 in response to Lord Balfour about the Mandate over Palestine:.
- Clarke, George [Lord Sydenham] (1848-1933) ( 1 quotation )
- No Zionism without colonialist protectors ( 41 quotations )
- Palestinians are at home elsewhere... ( 39 quotations )
"Zionism will fail, the experiment to which the noble Earl referred will fail, the harm done by dumping down an alien population upon an Arab country – Arab all around in the hinterland – may never be remedied…what we have done is, by concessions, not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, to start a running sore in the East, and no one can tell how far that sore will extend.
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British Government, Hansard's Reports, House of Lords, 21 June 1922, p. 1025
Quoted by Monique Chevillier-Gendreau, Rendre impossible un état palestinien, Textuel, 2025, p. 22.
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