La N wrote:
"Vince" wrote in message
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Fred J. McCall wrote:
"La N" wrote:
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:"Vince" wrote in message
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: So in 1917 Britain had nothing to give
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And yet oddly they wound up with it.
Funny how that works, don't you think?
[No, you don't, which is your problem.]
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:Thank you. I'm going to read up more on this when I have the time.
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Just don't ask Vinnie's advice. He'll almost inevitably mess it up.
It's the same as a car thief stealing on demand
you sell what you don't own, so you go out and steal it
But, Vince, why? oh, why?
- nilita, trying to remember days when kids played fair ... 
Sucking up to the Zionist vote and lying to everyone in sight toplay
both ends against the middle
"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 one," he said.
"At that time the British were busy making promises. Henry McMahon had
exchanged letters with Hussein bin Ali, Sherif of Mecca in 1915, in
which he had promised the Arabs control of the Arab lands, exclusive of
the Mediterranean coast. The extent of the coastal exclusion is not
clear. Hussein protested that the Arabs of Beirut would greatly oppose
isolation from the Arab state or states, but did not, it seems, bring up
the matter of the Jerusalem area, which included a good part of
Palestine. This suggests either that the area of Jerusalem and Palestine
was not part of the inclusion and was promised to the Arabs, as shown in
some maps, and is believed by pro-Arab historians, or that Palestine was
included, but that Hussein did not protest. The latter version is
supported by Dr. Chaim Weizmann in his autobiography Trial and Error.
This interpretation was also convenient for the British , and was
supported explicitly by the British government in the 1922 White Paper."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour...iffering_views
Vince