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Thread #106771   Message #2262479
Posted By: CarolC
14-Feb-08 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
"nomadic Arab Tribesmen" – Bedouins? – You mean they moved about? How did their villages move about CarolC?

They weren't defending their villages. They were defending the borders of their country.

The borders had not been decided in March 1920 CarolC, in fact they weren't decided until 1923. However In 1919, the British relinquished the northern section of the upper Galilee containing Tel Hai, Metula, Hamrah, and Kfar Giladi to the French jurisdiction.

Precisely. The Arabs in question were defending this land (that they wanted to remain a part of the French jurisdiction) from the encroachment of the Jewish settlers who were settling there in order to establish 'facts on the ground', in order to absorb it into what they hoped would become the Jewish state. The settlers were trying to help build the state of Israel and it was their intention that this area would become a part of that state. The Arabs in the area didn't want that.

You keep using incredibly dishonest methods to try to gain the upper hand in this discussion, but the problem is that you get all of your information from supremacist propaganda websites (and books, no doubt), so there is clearly a wealth of well documented information that you are totally unaware of, and when you try to argue using the propaganda you have fallen for, you just end up making yourself look foolish.

I think I've humiliated you enough on this thread. I've got better things to do with my time.