In a message dated 6/13/2003 12:46:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> What right did the UN have to tell Arabs how they would be governed, or > to take away their homes? For whatever its worth; Palestine was part of the british empire after the breakup of the Otomen Empire. The Zionest movement began in ernest in the late 19th century in response to increasing virulent anti-sematism throughout Europe (with the notable exception of England which was very pro-jewish at the time). Theodore Herzel the "father of modern zionism" became a zionist because of the Dreyfus affair. Jews began to buy up as much land in Palestine as they could often with the financial support of wealthy Jews such as the English branch of the Rothschild family. The Jews bought as much land as they could. When the Britain promished the Jews a state they were not dividing a previously existent state they were giving the Jews part of the Land they controlled. Now you can argue that the British and then the allies had no right to do this but it was certainly not same as giving away part of a pre-existent country. > >
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