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To: Ilaine who wrote (17380)	1/27/2002 8:05:41 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "I don't have a problem with the Jews buying land from the Arabs. Maybe you can explain how that gave them the right to declare independence?" Texas became independent in a fashion somewhat similar. Of course Texas might not have made good its break without the backing of an important global power and neighbor a few years later. There's probably many other examples in history. -- Carl

To: Ilaine who wrote (17380)	1/27/2002 9:08:23 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 281500

Before the Second World War, neither Israel, Syria, Lebanon, nor the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, were independent countries. Egypt was granted "independence" earlier, but was occupied by the British.

To: Ilaine who wrote (17380)	1/27/2002 10:21:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't have a problem with the Jews buying land from the Arabs. Maybe you can explain how that gave them the right to declare independence? The British and their Hashemite allies okayed the original Zionist program when Palestine came under the British Mandate in 1918. Then the UN voted for the partition of Palestine in 1947. The Jews accepted the partition, the Arabs rejected it. When the British Mandate ended in May 1948, Ben Gurion declared independence. Both the US and the Soviet Union recognized the Jewish State. There was a war, which the Jews won. It established the borders of Israel for the period 1948 - 1967. So: UN partition + winning the war + international recognition. That's how.