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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (78053)	7/14/2006 1:27:59 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Did the Palestinians believe that Britain was the "legal manager"? Back in 1920, there weren't any Palestinians in the sense you mean. There were just Arabs of the regions of southern Syria and Palestine. They identified themselves by town and clan, not country. If you asked them what country they were living in, most would have answered "Syria.". They had been governed by the Ottoman Turks from Istanbul for over 400 years. They were not organized as political entity. They did not fight the British because Ottoman rule had been pretty awful and British colonial rule was a distinct improvement. A man could at least make a living and not be taxed to death. The idea of a right to self-rule was just being bandied about by Woodrow Wilson but it was a novel idea in the Mideast. Some of the more modern Palestinian Arabs hoped to start an Arab nationalism, to compete with what the Young Turks were doing in Anatolia. Back then, they hoped that Jewish nationalism would help give Arabs the idea. Some of them welcomed it; others did not.

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