The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111301   Message #2348561
Posted By: CarolC
24-May-08 - 11:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestinian 'facts'
Subject: RE: BS: Palestinian 'facts'
Yes, but Palestine was part of Jordan at the time of Isreal's creation in 47. The Palestine people were Jordanian and it was Jordan that excluded them and must bear some of the blame. Isreal should have probably been carved out of Germany as retribution but that was snot what happened. Somehow we must go forward in peace!

Palestine was never a part of Jordan, Sandy, and the Palestinians are not originally from what is now or what has ever been Jordan.

I agree, however, that Jordan bears some responsibility for the fact that the Palestinians have not ever had self-determination. Jordan had an agreement with the leaders of what is now Israel to divide the land that had been given to the Palestinians in the partition plan and split it with Israel. And that is exactly what happened until, in 1967, Israel took the part that Jordan acquired as a result of that agreement. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that Jordan decided to take that land because they knew that the Palestinians didn't have the military resources to defend it from being taken by Israel.