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Thread #90673   Message #1726579
Posted By: CarolC
24-Apr-06 - 11:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: suicide bomber murders 9 in Tel Aviv
Subject: RE: BS: suicide bomber murders 9 in Tel Aviv
So, as of 1945 the population of 31% Jews was supposed to get 23% of the Mandate Palestine Territory. The UN resolution gave them less than that, and the Arabs still refused to agree.

Considering the fact that as of 1917 the population of Palestine was only 8 percent Jewish (and the fact that in 1945, many of the European Jews in Palestine were illegal aliens), I think I can understand why the "Arabs" (the indegenous Palestinians) refused. They knew what was going to happen to them. They knew the plan was to displace them, and they had every reason and every right to not agree to be displaced.


Or will you declare that the borders of Turkey, determined at the same conferences, should be invalid?

I have no opinions at this time about whether or not I would condiser the borders of Turkey to be valid or invalid. However it certainly looks to me like you consider them invalid. Or at least you consider the decision that was made "the same conferences" with regard to how land should be allotted in Palestine to be invalid.

Personally, I wouldn't necessarily disagree with the borders as defined by the UN resolution, but clearly you do disagree with it.