Grendel,
Quote:We've been over the Palestine thing aboo and you admitted you lied, were wrong incorrect... ok
Umm, no actually I just let you claim another hollow victory, because you obviously didn't understand the basic concepts involved. ie. that there was no Arab nationalities prior to the arrival of the British, Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian whatever.
Quote:The Mandate palestine was created by the Brits.
It is now mostly Jordan.
The British mandate consisted of both Palestine and Transjordan, that land which was west of the jordan and that which was east of it, respectively, please go and do some research.
Quote:there were no Palestinians b4 then
There were people living there. That's akin to dividing Australia up into littlle countries, the one south of the Murray being known as Yarraland, and claiming there never was any Yarralanders all throughout history, what a nonsensical argument. Just like there are Victorians, there were always people who lived in the Sanjack of al-Quds (ie. the Ottoman name of the province that became known as Palestine, under British mandate and today as Israel)
Quote:The tribes that inhabited the area from way back were not only Muslims.
Not only, but largely.
Quote:BTW Muslims are a much more recent arrival.
They are? When did they arrive? My history shows me Muslims arrived about 1300 years ago... Guess it depends on what you mean by recent.
Quote:Hence the Jews/hebrews whatever you want to call them have as much right to be there.
The last Ottoman census, taken in the late 1890's show the Jews to be no more than 2% of the population. Do 2% of the population of a country have a right to expel the majority and turn it into their own racially based state?
Funny, because in our other discussions where the tables are turned, you don't think the 2% minorities have any right to even have their own culture, let alone to expel anyone who doesn't belong to it. You know Muslims are about 2% of Australia's population... Do we have the same rights to do in Australia what you seem to think the Jews had to do in Palestine?