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To: dumbmoney who wrote (135884)	6/7/2004 3:06:26 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Why weren't they allowed to return to their homes? Because it would have upset the ethnic balance, i.e. an overwhelming Jewish majority Also because there was no peace, and the Arabs were promising 'we'll get you next time'. The Brits tried to engineer a population transfer: Israel takes the Jews of the Mideast, the (much larger) Arab countries take the Arabs of Palestine. Israel did the first; the Arabs reneged on the second. Hence the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank were included in the "Land of Israel" but excluded from the "State of Israel". You are confusing 48 and 67. The Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza were never driven from their homes in 67. True, there were too many Arabs for Israel to simply annex the territories. They thought they could trade them for peace. But the Arabs had no interest in peace. "No recognition, no negotiation, no peace" they said in 1967 at Khartoum. So the territories passed into a limbo state of occupation.