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To: roadcat

No, actually the Jews were promised ALL of the Palestinian Mandate held by Britain under the Balfour Declaration (based on their help fighting the Turks in WW1 - it wasn’t for free). What later transpired is that Transjordan (today’s Jordan) was sliced off to appease the Arabs (how’s that working out?), and Transjordan was 7/8 of that land area. Then the Jews didn’t even get all of what was left - Egypt grabbed Gaza, and Jordan kept the “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria), so the Jews got less than 1/8 of what they were promised in the Balfour Declaration.


34 posted on 06/01/2018 4:28:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr
Then the Jews didn’t even get all of what was left - Egypt grabbed Gaza, and Jordan kept the “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria), so the Jews got less than 1/8 of what they were promised in the Balfour Declaration.

That's what I said. The Jews got a tiny fraction of what was promised. The arabs took most.

42 posted on 06/01/2018 8:34:06 PM PDT by roadcat
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