To: Frederick Langford who wrote (3386 ) 3/13/2003 11:43:55 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3467 Sorry Fred, it was not won, much of the land recuperated in 1967 was land legitimately bought by the Pre-Israel state and other Jews during the last century from arabs who illegally put claim on those lands anyway.worldnetdaily.com Further would like to present several quotes of Arab leaders before the terrorist organization of the PLO gained popularity "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 if not for the British the recent conflict in Israel would not exist "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. "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied until their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population." -- Winston Churchill, 1939 "If we must offend one side, let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs." -- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 1937 "If we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews." -- British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 1943