To: Terry Maloney who wrote (215626 ) 1/20/2003 9:01:49 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258 Terry I respectfully disagree. TransJordan is for the so called invention called palestinians and I wish all arab west of the Jordan River should be resettled back to the countries their parents arrived from and TransJordan. The US Congress decision from September 1922 were a Jewish Homeland west of the Jordan River was ratified by US Congress as evidenced in the September 12, 1922 US Congress (Public Resolution No. 73, 67th Congress, Second Session) U.S. Congress Endorses the Balfour Declaration Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled. That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which will prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected. _________________________________________________________________ ALL what is needed is for the US to enforce it's previous Congress Resolution _________________________________________________________________ "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it." — Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not" — Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946 "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." — Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956 "The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population "— British consul in 1857 Arabs just came to Israel if be being deported from their communities or to find opportunity and work were the Jews settled. ". . . Many Palestinians are descendants of Egyptian, Sudanese, Syrian and Lebanese migrants, who settled in the current boundaries of Israel during 1830-1945. . . . . Migrant workers were imported by the Ottomans and (since 1919) by the British authorities . . . . Illegal Arab laborers were also attracted by the relative boom, stimulated by Jewish immigration, which expanded labor-intensive enterprises (construction, agriculture, etc.). ". . . . The (1831-1840) conquest, by Egypt's Mohammed Ali, was solidified by thousands of Egyptians settling empty spaces between Gaza and Tul-Karem up to the Hula Valley. . . .30,000-36,000 Syrian migrants (Huranis) entered Palestine (in 1934) Syrian rulers have alwaysconsidered the area as a southern province of Greater Syria. Az-ed-Din el-Qassam, the role-model of Hamas terrorism, who terrorized Jews in British Mandate Palestine, was a Syrian, as were Said el-A'az, a leader of the 1936-38 anti-Jewish pogroms and Kaukji, the commander-in-chief of the Arab mercenaries terrorizing Jews in the thirties and forties. Very Very simple this was also the solution to establish a stable India after around 10 million muslim were resettled from India to Pakistan. Pakistan was invented for the resettlement of muslim in the western part of what was colonial India. Kashmir is the only place which was not resettled appropiately and see what is going on ther after over 50 years. As to Powell he should stand trial IMHO tens of thousands of people were murdered mostly in Iraq because reneging promised support and Powell policies and scare tactics serving more Saudi Arabia interests than that of the US. Just go back and review the events before and after Desert Storm. If not for Powell the ME would be a very quiet place, no Saddam, no Afghanistan war, and the horrors of 9/11 would had never happen. Just ask any ethnic group in Iraq opposed to Saddam what they think of PowellMessage 18465754 Ottoman Turkey ejected two million Armenians during the First World War. Czech authorities expelled three million ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland after the Second World War. When the British partitioned India and Pakistan in 1948, a total of 10 million moved between the two countries, with fearful Hindus fleeing for their lives one way, Muslims the other. And yet none of these refugee movements gave rise to the festering conflict caused by a smaller refugee migration -- the flight of about 800,000 Palestinian Arabs from Israel. Why?