West Asia is at another crossroads as it approaches the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration supporting "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". Israel cannot have been displeased when Hamas expelled Fatah from Gaza in a bloody 2007 coup.Now the world is applauding another peace agreement between the two groups. The co-existence that  Balfour proposed represented the essence of the two-state solution that the Oslo process recommended, and which is today Spring making machine the only answer to the Palestine stalemate.The Balfour Declaration coincided with Vladimir Lenin’s coup in Moscow in November 1917.The secret Sykes-Picot pact carved out those same territories between Britain and France.The kidnapping and murder of three Jewish youths in the Israeli-occupied West Bank some weeks later provoked fierce Israeli reprisals and a war that killed over 1,500 beleaguered civilians in Gaza. Britain believed the Bolshevik leaders were all Jews.Possession, not dispossession, lay at the heart of the declaration on November 9, 1917 by Arthur Balfour, then British foreign secretary. Contentious issues such as national elections, reform of the PLO, Hamas’s arsenal of weapons and the status of its armed wing are to be considered in late November. The sanctions imposed by Mr Abbas since the spring to tightly limit the entry of fuel, cutting Gaza’s electricity supplies to a few hours a day, will end.

The Sheriff of Mecca was promised all the Arab lands that the Ottoman sultans had ruled since 1517, with each of his sons king of a different brand new country, if they attacked Turkish installations. France and the United States endorsed the document. They are right to the extent that London’s announcement alone would not have created Israel if militant Zionist organisations backed by the fortune of international Jewry had not acquired Palestinian properties, run illegal Jewish immigrants, and smuggled weapons for Jewish terrorist outfits like Hagannah, the Stern Gang and Irgun that contemptuously disregarded the Balfour Declaration’s pious commitment "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities" (meaning indigenous Arabs). Even some Jewish rabbis were horrified at atrocities like armed Zionists storming Deir Yassin village of 600 Arab men, women and children one night. When the Arabs did decide to fight, they squabbled over who was to be commander-in-chief, the honour going to Egypt’s corrupt and debauched King Farouk.

It was the end of the unity government.In recent years, the bitter enmity among the three main groups — Fatah, Hamas and Hezbollah, which is active in Lebanon — has played into Israeli hands."I am a Zionist", Balfour had declared to curry favour with the billionaire Cousinhood (related Jewish financiers like Rothschild, Montefiore, Sassoon and Samuel), whose money sustained the war effort.Palestine was cleansed of Palestinians before the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was coined. Moscow hoped for a socialist satellite. Egypt, to which the Gaza Strip belonged before Israel seized it, was responsible for brokering the agreement. Each Arab army was more anxious to seize territory for itself than to enable the Palestinians to stay where they were.It’s only a partial agreement, addressing civil and administrative matters. There are also fears that Mr Netanyahu might try to engineer another confrontation to sabotage the agreement. When Hamas and Fatah ended their deadly rivalry in 2014 and formed a united government, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denounced it as a "vote for terror". Kaiser William was anxious to get rid of German Jews.Today’s Israelis are loath to acknowledge any debt to the Balfour  Declaration.Gaza’s police force will be reorganised to include 3,000 Palestine Authority officers.It can compel Mr Netanyahu to respect and work for a sovereign Palestine, which alone can save dispossessed Palestinians who have nothing left to lose from falling prey to terrorist organisations like Islamic State. Above all, the Arabs were thoroughly disunited. His strategy has always been to ensure that the West Bank and Gaza remain divided so that there is no pressure on him to negotiate. That alone can right a grave injustice and spare the world further bloodshed if it saves Palestinian youths from the clutches of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist outfits.8 million people, who are entirely at Israel’s mercy. Under this, Hamas will give up its exclusive control of Gaza and join a unity government based in the West Bank along with Fatah. At the same time, Hamas officials in Gaza are to be integrated into PA ministries. Winston Churchill sought the advice of Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist chief, on manufacturing explosives.

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