> > Also, memories in the Arab world seem to have conveniently forgotten > the other occupation - the occupation of Palestinian lands by the > their Arab brethren - the likes of Jordan, Syria and Egypt.
All the other rights and wrongs aside, this is historically illiterate. None of these countries had enjoyed independence for any sustained period for quite a large number of centuries, having been passed from the Roman to the Byzantine to the Ottoman empires before they fell into British and French colonial hands after 1918. -T
