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Thread #145515 Message #3368737
Posted By: MGM·Lion
27-Jun-12 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gloves off - Jews and Catholics at war!
Subject: RE: BS: Gloves off - Jews and Catholics at war!
Jack ~~ Agree the situation complicated. A complication you appear to have overlooked is that, prior to Allenby's invasion of 1917, about simultaneous with the Balfour Declaration [wiki if you need] followed by the post-WW1 British Mandate of Palestine from the League of Nations, the land in question had not been any sort of Arab state for 500 years, but a part of the Ottoman Empire. Large parts if its previously desert regions had been colonised, from late C19 on, by legal purchase with approval of the legitimate Turkish government, by Jewish pioneers: there had been no Arabs in these parts, because there had been no anybodys there.
The government of Israel, when declared, accepted the UN-resolved land disposal to which you refer in your last post; it was the combined Arab invading neighbours who rejected it, leaving the Israelis in possession by right of conquest, of more of the land than they had bargained for, but which they had of course to continue to occupy for self-protection in case of any more such abortive invasions by aggressive but fortunately inefficient, loot-seeking, Arab hordes.
I suggest you study a bit more of the history of the region; say no more about ambitions of your own imagining to occupy the whole of the land from the Med to the Euphrates or whatever the hell it was; and stop pontificating on a basis of pathetic ignorance.
You are only succeeding in making a fool of yourself!.