And it was that revolt that started causing them problems. I've read the link you posted before.Wow, no shit Sherlock, That's why it was called the "ARAB revolt in Palestine". Oh, BTW, go argue with Phoney, HE claims "Palestinians" were what Arabs called Jewish people at the time.Thanks for posting thag link. If you read it, you will see that the revolt was started by the Palestinians. ...P F Tinmore, et al,
OK --- the claim is:
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- gun in their face
- foreign money ring in their nose
- say that they cannot build a state
- they are incompetent
The Arab Palestinians started out at the very same point in the sovereignty and independence process as did the Israelis. The two parties made different choices. The outcome of the nation that each party has established over the last half century is the practical and tangible evidence and answer to: "Where do you get that crap."
This is a case where the parties could have a benevolent relationship, or --- a belligerent relationship. The extent to which "gun in their face" was an issue --- is based on the threat posed by the Arab Palestinian to the Israelis. The Palestinians have not made any effort to conceal the fact that they are in a jihadist and armed struggle with the Israelis.
The extent to which "foreign money ring in their nose" is an issue --- is based on the Arab Palestinian acceptance. This money is not forced upon them at gun-point. The Arab Palestinian can turn-down the money at any time.
Periodically --- Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatens Israel with disbanding his government or some portion of it. Palestinians living under Israeli rule are increasingly questioning whether the PA is truly looking out for their interests. What is different this time around is the threat to discontinue security coordination. There is no question that there is an increasingly unpopular attitude, as many Arab Palestinians feel the arrangement assists the Israeli military in control over the occupied territory.
The fact that the Palestinians, after a quarter century, still don't have full recognition of the state, is a epitaph to its competence.
Most Respectfully,
R
Well no they didn't. By the 1940's the Palestinian attempt at independance, begun in 1936 had been all but brutally suppressed by the Mandatory power charged with facilitating that independence with the aid of Zionist Jewish militias and death squads. The Palestinian leadership was either dead, in prison or in exile and Palestinian civil society/institutions in ruins. Meanwhile the Zionists had greatly strengthened their position, gaining training and experience from the British. By the time the British abandoned the Mandate, the Zionists in Palestine were the strongest military force in the region and more than ready to take over. The threat had always come from the Zionist Jewish colonists; the Palestinians merely tried to defend themselves as best they could. Characterising this as a "jihadist and armed struggle with the Israelis". Is pandering to Zionist propagandist/Hasbarist historiography. There was never any possibility of a "benevolent relationship" with Zionism, whose aim from the outset was ethnic cleansing of the native population in favour of European Jewish colonisation.
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1936 39 Arab revolt in Palestine - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia