P.A.: Balfour Declaration 'Mark of Cain' on Humanity

JERUSALEM, Israel – The Palestinian Authority says the United Kingdom owes them an apology for issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which supported the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people.

P.A. spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh labeled the declaration "the crime of the century."

The Palestine Liberation Organization, the P.A.'s parent group, said it's considering suing Great Britain for its issuance nearly a century ago on November 2, 1917.

Rudeineh called it an "historical mistake" that brought misery and injustice to the Arab population.

It's similar in spirit to the P.A.'s annual Nakba holiday, which refers to Israel's establishment as modern nation-state on May 14, 1948, a "catastrophe."

Rudeineh says it represents a "mark of Cain on the forehead of humanity."

Islamic holidays often reapply biblical text, such as on Eid al-Adha, the holiday that substitutes Ishmael, Abraham's son by his wife's Egyptian handmaid, for Sarah's son, Isaac, whom God calls the "son of promise."

According to Islamic theology, Allah instructed Abraham to sacrifice Ishmael, not Isaac, as recorded in Genesis 22.