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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (76)	12/8/2001 10:00:40 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 6945

It is quite simple, after the league of nations divided the Ottoman empire in the Mid - East to "mandates", the lands in question were under British control, the UN, inherited the League's role to "give and take" lands to various national entities, and they are still doing that today, they just did in the former Yugoslavia. The UN job is to settle conflicts, including getting warring parties to negotiate safe and secure borders, and sometimes even "impose" such borders. That is what they did in 1947 (giving Israel a piece, 75% of which was desert, the rest to an eventual Palestinian state), and that was not acceptable by the Palestinians, so they decided, with the help pf "friendly Arab states neighbors", to "rectify the problem". They failed, and "Arab Palestine" was annexed to Transjordan ("occupied" by Transjordan" for some 20 years, during which, there was no national Movement for an independent Palestinian state) and lost some of that land (the Israeli also lost few chunks near and in Jerusalem). They tried again in 67 and 73 and each time lost a little more. Each infitada carried on resulted in even more loss of land. Some day, they may wise up. Zeev