yeah so? In 1946 my hubby was living in PALESTINE----his government
papers and passport issued by the brits designated him "PALESTINIAN"------He was born in a muslim/arab country. He was not designated "arab"-----if he was
a muslim born in that same muslim/arab country-----he would have been
designated on his passport "ARAB" ---not Palestinian. In 1946 the ONLY
people called "PALESTINIAN" were jews
What did the Brits gain from their "iron wall" in Palestine?
Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF
"Following the absorption of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the British set about shoring up their rule by the tried and true strategy of pitting ethnic group against ethnic group, tribe against tribe, and religion against religion.
"When British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour issued his famous 1917 Declaration guaranteeing a 'homeland' for the Jewish people in Palestine, he was less concerned with righting a two thousand year old wrong than creating divisions that would serve growing British interests in the Middle East.
"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire:
'It will form for England,” he said, “a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'
"Storrs’ analogy was no accident.
"Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."