29 Nov 2011 11:55:09
That was the terms of the united nations deal ed so blame them. Similar deals have been done in other places. {Ed001's Note - doesn't mean it is fair or right though. You can't blame Palestinians for not wanting to be abused and mistreated and forced into losing their homes and livelihoods.}
{Ed033's Note - The Balfour Declaration of 1917 allegedly started the ball rolling for the creation of Israel. But at the time there was already a place in Russia the size of Switzerland called Birobidjan that was set up to be the Jewish homeland.}
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{Ed033's Note - One of the questions is did Britain have the right to take a part of the middle east that was allegedly "occupied" by "Arab" peoples and give it to someone else to create Israel even when there was another place that was assigned for Jewish people to go called Birobidjan?
The answer maybe whether the alleged covenant with "god" is real
The answer maybe whether the alleged covenant with "god" is real
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Ed33 how safe would this Birobidjan place have been given that at the time Russia was the most anti-Semitic country in Europe and had already carried out several Pogroms?
The Covenant thing, well depends on how religious you are, but certainly many Jews do believe it and it founds most of their claim. How do you disprove something like that in legal terms?
As for the British role, well you have to look at the influence of certain prominent Jewish banker families especially given as by 1917 the war was having a massive effect on the treasury as not only were we paying for own war effort we were also susbidising a large chunk of the Fench, Italian and Russian war efforts and aslo had lost a lot of rpe war trade due to the fact we were fighting one of our largest trading partners.
So i think there was a certain amount of horse trading with a certain group of bankers and that was their price.
{Ed033's Note - I don't know. I was adding to the conversation. Obviously it's too late now and obviously the ruling class did what they did for their own reasons.}
The Covenant thing, well depends on how religious you are, but certainly many Jews do believe it and it founds most of their claim. How do you disprove something like that in legal terms?
As for the British role, well you have to look at the influence of certain prominent Jewish banker families especially given as by 1917 the war was having a massive effect on the treasury as not only were we paying for own war effort we were also susbidising a large chunk of the Fench, Italian and Russian war efforts and aslo had lost a lot of rpe war trade due to the fact we were fighting one of our largest trading partners.
So i think there was a certain amount of horse trading with a certain group of bankers and that was their price.
{Ed033's Note - I don't know. I was adding to the conversation. Obviously it's too late now and obviously the ruling class did what they did for their own reasons.}
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Ok cheers Ed
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