You didn't need to be literate or 'well versed' to have heard about something so radical as the idea that peoples might perhaps govern themselves in the future ... if there hadn't been a term in arabic to describe 'self-determination', or 'home rule', something like that, there sure as hell would have been invented one in short order
Your attempt to spin illusion of 'internal contradictions' in my post is duly noted, as risible
' ... it cannot be denied that fear of indefinite Jewish immigration is widespread amongst the Arab population and that this fear has made possible disturbances which have given a serious setback to economic progress, depleted the Palestine exchequer, rendered life and property insecure, and produced a bitterness between the Arab and Jewish populations which is deplorable between citizens of the same country. If in these circumstances immigration is continued up to the economic absorptive capacity of the country, regardless of all other considerations, a fatal enmity between the two peoples will be perpetuated, and the situation in Palestine may become a permanent source of friction amongst all peoples in the Near and Middle East ...'
- from the MacDonald white paper ... it's on that page i posted upthread, url is too long, it stretches the SI page
[Tim, you are hereby invited to note the use of the word 'country', before there was a formal state] |
