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Thread #92618   Message #1780530
Posted By: beardedbruce
10-Jul-06 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
CarolC,

We will have to disagree. I was refering to the 1923 treaty, the LAST time that an Arab government agreed to national borders with a Jewish Homeland.

I dispute several of your assurtions, as you are aware. Does it serve any purpose to debate the causes of the 1967 war, when you dispute what I present, and I dispute what you have stated?

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918p/lausanne.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BritishMandatePalestine1920.jpg



And since the Palestinians refused the original partition, why should they be allowed to go back and accept it now? They had their chance, and turned it down.

"UNSCOP considered two main proposals. The first called for the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states in Palestine, with Jerusalem to be placed under international administration. The second called for the creation of a single federal state containing both Jewish and Arab constituent states. A majority of UNSCOP favoured the first option, although several members supported the second option instead and one member (Australia) said it was unable to decide between them. As a result the first option was adopted and the UN General Assembly largely accepted UNSCOP's proposals, though they made some adjustments to the boundaries between the two states proposed by it. The division was to take effect on the date of British withdrawal.

The partition plan was rejected out of hand by the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs and by most of the Arab population. Most of the Jews accepted the proposal, in particular the Jewish Agency, which was the Jewish state-in-formation. Numerous records indicate the joy of Palestine's Jewish inhabitants as they attended the U.N. session voting for the division proposal. Up to this day, Israeli history books mention 29 November, the date of this session, as the most important date leading to the creation of the Israeli state."