To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (161088 ) 4/26/2005 2:51:50 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to So you say ... i'll reserve judgment pending evidence, which evidence may never appear - there were a lot of zionists saying a lot of things, in those days ... sort of like these days, you alone say a lot of things, some are true, some clearly notArab national feeling did not yet exist. ' - depends on the year you pick, and is probably arguable then ... certainly soon after the brits arrived in late 1917, the idea of self-government became thinkable, due to promises to the arabs for helping beat off the turkish empire, Allenby was welcomed to Jerusalem quite heartily ... likely also the 'it being clearly understood' line of the Balfour thing, which appeared to mean that their right to self-determination would not be denied by the british ... Wilson's fourteen points and the stated principles of the League of Nations come into it all, in the 1919-to-say-1925 period, these ideas flew far and fast, it is reasonable imho to expect the natives of Palestine to have heard of them, and at least begun to dream of empowerment ... add in the mufti, and poof, potent mix
