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To: Thomas M. who wrote (4577)	9/25/2001 12:35:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

This division forgets about Eastern Palestine (now called Jordan). Jordan was part of the original Mandate of Palestine referred to by the Balfour Declaration. Jordan has always considered that it is part of the same country as Palestine. That is why Jordan alone gave citizenship to the Arab refugees of 1948 (indeed, at least 200,000 of the refugees had migrated from Jordan into Western Palestine in the previous 20 years). Arabs of Palestine were culturally indistinguishable from Arabs of Jordan, nor at the time did they think of themselves as belonging to a country called 'Palestine'. That all came later.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4577)	9/25/2001 4:45:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

The UN Partition Plan recommended that 55 percent of Palestine, and the most fertile region, be given to the Jewish settlers who compromised 30 percent of the population. The remaining 45 percent of Palestine was to comprise a home for the other 70 percent of the population who were Palestinians. You forgot to mention that 75% of the Jewish partition was in the Negev desert! The other 25% was the land they already owned in the coastal plain and the Galilee.