"A country that did not exist"
Sarman,
A "country" is a political and legal fiction. Countries were essentially "created," in a legal sense, in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia, as a way of attempting to forge political order in Europe. If you wish to talk about "countries that did not exist" you would have to speak of "Palestine" as well. Indeed, as I wrote in the previous post, there were plenty of Arabs who didn't think that Palestine existed either, including Assad. Nor did "Lebanon" or "Jordan" (or Transjordan, as the area was known then). Indeed, if you accepted the pan-Arabist line of Egypt's Nasser back in the 50s, there was only one Arab "country." But of course, no one could ever figure out who would be in charge of it.
The UN partition was, like the Treaty of Westphalia, an attempt to bring some political order to an area that was bitterly conflicted. It was Arabs who rejected that compromise first and foremost.
Sarman, you are the one who doesn't know anything about political history. And either you don't know much about Arab political history of the mid 20th century, or you pretend you don't in order to project a "righteous" stance on this board. |
