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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237063)7/19/2007 12:02:14 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
that's just another way of saying that creating an Arab state in Palestine would have been legitimate, but creating a Jewish one was illegitimate, despite (or because of?) the fact that the Jews were interested in having a state and the Arabs weren't.

No, the legitimacy or lack thereof had to do with the flux of people into the region. The British decided that a recent large influx of people with the promise of many more to come should count as equal with the rights of those who had lived there for generations. That was the mistake.

You have a hangup for obvious reasons on the concept of a State. That is the same sort of reasoning that says the USA was not stolen from the NA, because the NA didn't have the same concept of land ownership that the new immigrants brought with them, hence they didn't really own their own country. The concepts of new arrivals should not be given preference over the concepts of the original inhabitants.
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