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**La N**

"Vince" wrote in message
...
Fred J. McCall wrote:
"La N" wrote:

: :"Vince" wrote in message
... : Fred J. McCall
wrote: : Weatherlawyer wrote: : : :
:One has to remember that if it wasn't for the Germans, there wouldn't
: :have been an Israel. Like fatherland like son. : : : : Those
who fail to learn from history are doomed to be thought stupid : by
those who did. : : Balfour Declaration. Look it up. : : : Right
: : UK happily giving away what didn't
belong to it : :

Except, unfortunately for Vinnie's thesis, it sort of did. See
'Palestine Mandate'.

check the dates son

Check the dates

Balfour declaration was 1917

" In the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, Britain and France had proposed
to divide the Middle East between them into spheres of influence, with
"Palestine" as an international enclave.[7] In a meeting at Deauville in
1919, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau revised this agreement,
with Palestine and the Vilayet of Mosul in modern-day Iraq falling into
the British sphere in exchange for British support of French influence
in Syria and Lebanon.[8] According to historian Ilan Pappe,

"The borders of mandatory Palestine, first drawn up in the
Sykes-Picot Agreement, were given their definitive shape during lengthy
and tedious negotiations by British and French officials between 1919
and 1922...In October 1919 the British envisaged the area that is today
southern Lebanon and most of southern Syria as being part of British
mandatory Palestine...In the East, matters were more
complicated...[Transjordan] was part of the Ottoman province of Damascus
which in the Sykes-Picot agreement had been allocated to the French."[9]

At the San Remo Conference (19–26 April 1920) the Allied Supreme
Council granted the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia to Britain
without precisely defining the boundaries of the mandated
territories.[10][11] Although the land east of the Jordan had been part
of the Syrian administrative unit under the Ottomans, it was excluded
from the French Mandate at the San Remo conference, "on the grounds that
it was part of Palestine."[12]

British victories during World War I and years of delay before formal
treaties were ratified left the bulk of this territory under British
military occupation from 1917 to 1920.

The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World
War I Allied Supreme Council, held in San Remo, Italy, in 19-26 April
1920. It determined the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations
mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the
Middle East.

The decisions of the conference mainly confirmed those of the First
Conference of London (February 1920), and broadly reaffirmed the terms
of the Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement of 16 May 1916 for the
region's partition and the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917.[13]
Britain received the mandate for Palestine and Iraq, while France gained
control of Syria including present-day Lebanon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...ration_to_1923

So in 1917 Britain had nothing to give

Vince

Thank you. I'm going to read up more on this when I have the time.

- nilita