Balfour at 109: Britain must answer for the abuses in Palestine it now condemns

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A Palestinian petition seeking acknowledgement and redress for British colonial abuses has gone unanswered for more than a year. The government must take responsibility On 8 October, workers in East Jerusalem took down the sign reading "British Consulate General". Britain has had a diplomatic presence in the city since the 1830s: under the Ottomans, under its own rule from 1917 to 1948, and through nearly 60 years of Israeli occupation. Israel ordered the consulate closed in retaliation for the