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To: Ackackadack
Modern Israel would likely not exist without the help of the Brits. See “Balfour Declaration”.

Check your facts, Abdul.
Israel exists IN SPITE of the Balfour Declaration, combined with no military help from the brits PLUS the Brit blockade to prevent badly needed European and Russian Jews from entering Israel.

The mandate of Palestine (there has never been a country of Palestine) was to be divided equally between Jew and Muslim. Israel got less than 15%, as I recall.

With friends like that...

10 posted on 07/21/2012 1:11:59 AM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: publius911
That’s a comment on how divided Britain was back then, never mind even more so now.

Remember how things were on the side of Chamberlain versus the side of Churchill? Liberal/Marxist/even Nazi-sympathizing streak very strong on that side in those days; that’d be the side that worked against what Balfour was about.
11 posted on 07/21/2012 1:37:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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