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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: c.hinton who wrote (244772)10/12/2007 11:35:49 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
"Moreover, with the pronouncement of the Balfour Declaration6 recognizing a Jewish homeland within Palestine, Arabs felt yet again that they had been given hollow assurances for self rule. This betrayal by the West became the foundation for future mistrust of promises made by western governments."

As i read this, its not israel per se that bothered the arabs, it was the betrayal of their nationalism by Europe. If Balfour not only provided for a jewish state but for an arab state or states, little israel might not have been objectionable at all. The brunt of the hatred for this betrayal went to israel over time as the symbol of western perfidy. Imagine how it might have been if arabs had achieved their national objectives alongside the jews. And actually balfour declaration back then was a betrayal of the zionists as well as nothing happened until after WW2 and the euro refugee problem needed to be solved. See what i am getting at here---jews and arabs should have been natural allies but were manipulated into what has become this neverending cycle of violence. If you study US history much the same thing happened as southern landowning whites pitted poor whites against blacks to maintain their position both before and after the civil war.
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