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To: Lent
Okay, fine. Show me a document, British or League of Nations, that says the Jews are entitled to the entire area west of the Jordan. I read the text of the Peel Commission report and it does not such thing, anywhere, so contrary to your claim, you have not done so yet.
20 posted on 06/18/2002 2:09:40 PM PDT by traditionalist
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To: traditionalist
Okay, fine. Show me a document, British or League of Nations, that says the Jews are entitled to the entire area west of the Jordan. I read the text of the Peel Commission report and it does not such thing, anywhere, so contrary to your claim, you have not done so yet.

Here again you wish to constrain by your language. The Jews were "entitled" to settle anywhere under the rubrick of the "National Home for the Jews" - both east and west of the Jordan. In fact, the Declaration was explicitly sanctioned and accepted at the San Remo Conference by the League of Nations in 1920. Therefore, the "National Home for the Jews" was a legally binding notion which explicitly gave the Jews the right to settle anywhere in the British Mandate. That was what you prefaced your initial query on. The fact that the "National Home" became progressively whittled down by British compromise and duplicity doesn't vitiate the right given under Balfour and sanctioned at San Remo. The inevitability from "National Home" to statehood is almost implicit in the concept.

Finally, your statement about the "Peel Commission" is puzzling as:(1) I asked you to show me where this quote has been misread or misused from the Peel Commission;(2) You have misread the quote.

21 posted on 06/18/2002 2:20:02 PM PDT by Lent
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