The Cellar - View Single Post - Who doesn't want a Palestinian state? Palestinian leaders, that's who

Undertoad · 06-20-2002, 09:34 AM

The source obviously ignores the context of the time:

- The land the Brits historically owned and was considered Palestine included a MUCH larger chunk of what is now Jordan than what is now Israel. In 1923 they restricted Jewish immigration to west of the Jordan river, allotting 75% of that area specifically to Palestinian Arabs. (Why don't the Palestinians have a beef with Jordan? Duh.)

- The Jewish people suddenly had a rather compelling reason to start moving there in bigger numbers; unfortunately, their numbers had sorta, um, dwindled in the decade previous.

- The raw amount of land was not really all that important at the time. The land changed hands repeatedly at the whims of the politics of the time. In 1947 most of the land was worthless. In 1948 the surrounding nations decided it suddenly had massive value since a ton of people they hated lived on it. Today it has much more value since it was developed by a major free economy.

06-20-2002, 09:34 AM	#32
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The source obviously ignores the context of the time: - The land the Brits historically owned and was considered Palestine included a MUCH larger chunk of what is now Jordan than what is now Israel. In 1923 they restricted Jewish immigration to west of the Jordan river, allotting 75% of that area specifically to Palestinian Arabs. (Why don't the Palestinians have a beef with Jordan? Duh.) - The Jewish people suddenly had a rather compelling reason to start moving there in bigger numbers; unfortunately, their numbers had sorta, um, dwindled in the decade previous. - The raw amount of land was not really all that important at the time. The land changed hands repeatedly at the whims of the politics of the time. In 1947 most of the land was worthless. In 1948 the surrounding nations decided it suddenly had massive value since a ton of people they hated lived on it. Today it has much more value since it was developed by a major free economy.