"La N" wrote:

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:"Vince" wrote in message
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: 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.
: :
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: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to be thought stupid
: by those who did.
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: Balfour Declaration. Look it up.
:
:
: Right
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: UK happily giving away what didn't belong to it
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:

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

:
:I wasn't really familiar with the Balfour Declaration but looked it up in
:Wiki
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:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour...ration_of_1917
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:Excerpt:
:"In his November, 2002 interview with the New Statesman magazine, the UK
:Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw blamed Britain's imperial past for many of the
:modern political problems, including the Arab-Israeli conflict.[5]
:
:"The Balfour declaration and the contradictory assurances which were being
:given to Palestinians in private at the same time as they were being given
:to the Israelis-again, an interesting history for us, but not an honourable
ne," he said."
:

The history of the world (and particularly the Middle East) is
littered with the lies and double-dealing of the UK. This is not news
and is frequently behind modern troubles.

:
:Anyway, it does confirm that Weatherlawyer is wrong if nothing else.
:

Which was rather the point.


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