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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (161072)	4/26/2005 1:06:08 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What a surprise, that threat of invasion might pave the way for extreme nationalist fervour led by some ranting demagogue ... hardly the first time in history for that .... as for destroying mosques, no doubt some zionist proposed the idea, many things were said in those years, it was a diverse movement, and the literate among natives were listening, things spread pretty fast, some statements by Weizmann for instance, if memory serves it was 'A Palestine as jewish as England is english' that galvanised opposition the fastest, obviously natives were cast in that scenario as the picts or something The Balfour declaration itself - just as it was not the turks' land to hand over to the effendis as little fiefdoms, neither was it british land to hand over to the zionists ... certainly it had been the custom that europeans could spy a piece of land and claim, this is for me and my countrymen, but this meant dick all to the native on the ground, and there is no reason whatsoever that he should honour it Sure there was a variety of tenure situations, abandonment too, that was a process of turn-over, another native family might come and farm the same land later .... until, that is, it was alienated from them by zionist fiat ' ... Land holding patterns had also changed considerably. From the 650,000 dunums held by Jewish organizations in 1920, of the total land area of 26 million dunums, the figure at the end of 1946 had reached 1,625,000 dunums - an increase of about 250 per cent [144/] and Jewish settlement had displaced large numbers of Palestinian Arab peasants. Even so, this area represented only 6.2 per cent of the total area of Palestine and 12 per cent of the cultivable land. [145/] [ed - ten dunums equals roughly an hectare] Ironically, the Palestinian Arabs were to suffer an experience similar to the Jews - a diaspora. That the Jews deserved sympathy was unquestionable. Even before the Nazi terror, this sympathy existed for the Jewish people among the Palestinian Arabs. The absence of racial rancour before the Balfour Declaration received emphasis in virtually every official report. Even as late as 1937, during the Palestinian rebellion for independence, the Royal Commission on Palestine said: "An able Arab exponent of the Arab case told us that the Arabs throughout their history have not only been free from anti-Jewish sentiment but have also shown that the spirit of compromise is deeply rooted in their life. There is no decent-minded person, he said, who would not want to do everything humanly possible to relieve the distress of those persons, provided that it was not at the cost of inflicting a corresponding distress on another people." ' domino.un.org!OpenDocument