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Well, look. The original "Palestine" mandate covered the land that is now Jordan and Israel. Jordan for the Arab Palestinains and Israel for the Jewish Palestinians. Most of the Jews lived on the Israel part, most of the arabs on the Jordan part. The vast majority of the overall land was aloted to Jordan. This wasn't good enough for the arabs. They attacked Israel 2 days after getting thier own Arab Palestinan state. A war followed. Israel won the war. After wars fought over land end, population changes often occurr. In this case, the population change invovled an exchange of hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians to Egypt/Jordan/Syria in exchange from virtualy all of the Jews (also hundreds of thousands) from the arab countries into Israel. Then a strange thing happend. Egypt and Jordan and Syria refused to integerate their own people into their societies and brutally held them around in camps. I could go on with some more truthful history, but I'm not sure you're open to the truth.

Oh yeh, let me add something. The arabs that were exchanged left on their own free will becuase they were told by their fellow muslims that the war would be quick and all the Jews would be gone and another Islamic country formed. The Palestinan arabs were told to come to their lands temporarly so as to make it easier for the Arabs to kill as many Jews as possible during the 48 war. Unfortunenlty for the arabs, it didn't quite work out like that. However, on the other hand, the Jews that came to Israel were FORCED out by the arab countries. They came to Israel with virtualy nothing but the shirts on their backs. And they made a great prosperus bastion of western democracy and capitalism out of it.

Well, look. The original "Palestine" mandate covered the land that is now Jordan and Israel.

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Who decided the British, the Leage of Nations, or anybody else could come in and partitian land with a mandate, or create nations with a mandate? Suppose people already there don't recognize that right?

Suppose America were conquered and administered by France and Holland. Further suppose that they decided to take the states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, and Iowa and "mandate" them to the black muslims, encourage African immigration into those states, then recognize it as a separate nation. Also suppose you had been living there and were declared a minority citizen subject to the laws of that nation. How happy and peaceful do you think you would be? If a war occurred between France, or Holland, and anybody else, who do you think you would support?