Great clarifications, and clearly I'm no expert. However, I think the
basic points apply. You're also right about Palestine being a British
protectorate, although it was still effectively it's own country.
Unfortunately the Palestinians have been called "the worst led people
of the 20th century" and that's probably true: their leaders supported
the Kaiser in WWI, Hitler in WWII, and now they've got Mr. Arafat.
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:45:58 -0400, Larry C. Lyons
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gus,
>
> The Israelis did not start a terrorist campaign to get independence.
> The British had already announced that they were turning over
> Palestine to the UN for resolution well before the formation of the
> Stern Gang or Irgun. The campaign waged by those two groups (the Stern
> Gang's leadership included btw former Israeli PM Begin) was intended
> to accellerate the withdrawal of British forces.
>
> Also it was not WW2, Britian had control of Palestine since 1918 with
> the formalization of the Versailles treaty and the withdrawal of
> Ottoman Turk forces in 1917. Palestine was officially assigned to the
> British as a protectorate in 1920 or 1922 - forget which.
>
> larry
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:20:58 -0500, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I get the feeling that if the current excuse was removed, another would
> take its' place.
> >
> > There's only ever been one reason - US foreign policy that favors one
> > terrorist over another: The Shah over the clerics; Iraq over Iranian
> > clerics, Saudi Arabia over Iraq, Israel over Palestine.
> >
> > The problem started with implicit US support of the jewish terrorist
> > organization, The Irgun. After WWII, Britian was put in charge of
> > Palestine who had supported the Axis during the war. The Jews,
> > however, thought that the region was due to them and began a terrorist
> > campaign against the British to get it.
> >
> > After numerous attacks and disruptions the Irgun had their coup. They
> > hijacked a milk truck, killed it's Palestinian driver, filled it full
> > of explosives and detonated it in a hotel many British soldiers were
> > bunked at.
> >
> > The blast killed about 30 British soldiers and 70 others. Britain
> > prompted pulled out of the region leaving the Irgun with the country.
> > The Irgun's leader, Menahem Begin, eventually became the Prime
> > Minister of Israel.
> >
> > To Arabs the lesson was, if you conduct a terrorist campaign against
> > the occupiers they'll pull out and you'll get the country. This has
> > been the policy, on the whole, that Arabs have pursued ever since.
> >
> > This began to change in the mid-ninties with President Clinton who
> > negotiated for peace in both Palestine and Northern Ireland. The Arab
> > view of the US began to grow favorable and spiked when al Qaeda
> > attacked the US.
> >
> > The unilateral dismissal of the UN and invasion of Iraq, however, has
> > probably pitted an entire generation of Arabs against us.
> >
> >________________________________
>
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