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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (143588)3/27/2002 3:19:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1584001
 
Z, come on........England annexed the land, I think, during the time of the crusades

Many years before the crusades Byzantium ruled the area. Then Muslims conquered it. During the crusades there where a few (I think 3 or 4) small Christian kingdoms set up in the area. They where all eventually conquered by the followers of Islam. The area changed hands between different Islamic countries/empires. From 1517-1917 it was under the Ottoman empire. The British too it over in after WWI, and where granted a Leage of Nations Madate over the area. In 1923 the British split the mandate of Palesine in to two administrative districts one of which became Trans-Jordan (and later just Jordan) and the other of which was still called Palestine.

"Arafat tried to overthrow King Hussein in the late '60s, and King Hussein killed over 5,000 Palestinians. The Palestinians haven't tried that again. Israel would never do anything like that to the Palestinians, and the Palestinians know it. That's why the Palestinians aren't afraid of Israel and feel free to keep attacking."

At the same time, Hussein became more enlightened.....he married American and his heir..his son...is even more enlightened and is putting into place significant reforms in Jordan. As a consequence, Jordan is a speck of hope in an otherwise dark situation.

The killing of thousands of Palestinians was what enabled Hussein to stay in power. You would have had a Palestinian state if he didn't resist. I might be called Jordan, or maybe they would have changed the name to Palestine.

Tim
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