Gardener,
et al,
You guys get this wrong almost every time.
So how about giving your version of why you all did not accept statehood in 1948 and why you think you deserve one now.
palestinians made up 67% of palesgtine's population/
jews made up 33%.
so why did the UN give the jews 60% of the land?????????????????
the palestinians had a right to be piseed at this unfairness.
(COMMENT)
Of the Mandate of Palestine: (Close Approximation)
- 77% of the Mandate Territory went to form the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- 12.7% of the Mandate Territory went to form the State of Israel.
- 10.3% of the Mandate Territory went to form the Arab State (rejected).
So, a total of 87.3% was partitioned to form Arab States.
There was an intent to reconstitute the Jewish national home from the very beginning. Of the entire set of territories in the proximity of the Region we call the Middle East, renounced and surrendered by the Ottoman/Turkish Empire, today including the states of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, were ultimately created by the League of Nations (UN) and the Allied Powers. Even the Kingdom of the Hedjaz
(now part of Saudi Arabia) was declare a free and independent State through action already taken by the Allied Powers.
I know it is not in the nature for the Arab Palestinian to look at the larger picture
(we get that), but when it comes to the question of "fairness," they really have a myopic view of the territory, region and the world.
Most Respectfully,
R