Palestine, Back to the Future

ISRAPUNDIT ^ | January 29/12 | Ted Belman

[tedbel]

There was a time when the lands now known as Israel, (including Judea and Samaria and Gaza), and most of Jordan were called “Palestine”. In fact, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 declared

“His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.

There followed considerable cooperation between the Jews, represented by Chaim Weizmann and the Arabs living in Mesopotamia, now Iraq, and Jordan, represented by Emir Feisal. As a result, the Feisal-Weizmann Agreement was signed in January 1919, in which it was agreed that the Jews would get the lands lying west of the Jordan River watershed to the Mediterranean. Two months later Faisal wrote to Felix Frankfuter, the then leader of the American Zionists, extending a welcome:

“We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organisation to Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.”

Unfortunately that initial agreement and embrace were overtaken by events. The British and the French had other plans.

Finally in 1920, the allied powers, Britain, France, Italy and Japan adopted the San Remo Resolution in evidence of their agreement

[F15Eagle]

“There was a time when the lands now known as Israel, (including Judea and Samaria and Gaza), and most of Jordan were called “Palestine”.”

And there was a time that it wasn’t. Up until about 100 years or so after Christ when Syria renamed it in response to a Jewish rebellion against a pagan temple to Jupiter.

[onedoug]

Philistia -> Palestine -> Israel.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................