Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of engla |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 2002-04-13 23:37 (2002-04-13 23:37) |
| Message-ID | <6z1u8.1228$iB4.3392@nntpserver.swip.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | AC |
| Followups | Russ (15m) |
AC wrote:
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ACThe state of Israel was created by a UN resolution in 1947. The same reolution also provided for a Palestinian state in the former British mandate of Palestine - NOT in Jordan or on the Sinai Peninsula. The reason that state was not created was the opposition of the Arab countries in the region to the creation of a Jewish state on what had been Arabic (or Muslim) territory for over a millennium. In the war that followed, as we know, the Israelis won, and Jordan annexed the West Bank and did not renounce its claim to it until some years after 1967, when Israel captured it. The Israelis then offered a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza if the PLO and the Arabic states would acknowledge the state of Israel. They refused. Now they are willing to do that in return for a Palestinian state in those territories, and now Israel refuses. I think that the UN, led by the US, should tell them all to stop their antics and implement a Palestinian state, stationing peace-keeping troops to keep the Israelis and the Arabs from cutting each other's troats.
Well, I'm a supporter of Israel, and I don't think it is because of some historical Hebrew claim to the region. Fact is that the British created the state (somewhat unwillingly) and at the time, the Arabs agreed. Israel just didn't appear out of nowhere. Once it was a recognized state, it was afforded the same protections of international law as any other state. Unfortunately, the corrupt leaders of the Arab world, always looking for some way to divert attention from their own incompetence, thought differently. Why doesn't anyone ever ask them why they couldn't drive the Israelis into the sea?
?jevind
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