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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11828)	1/25/2006 1:50:20 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

hawks comments referred to the New World, not "palestine"

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11828)	1/25/2006 7:08:52 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

The British and French were not in Palestine to colonize the place. they were there to administer a government to take it out of the hands of the Ottoman Turks and into the hands of the Palestinian people. Maybe officially under the League of Nations. However, I don't think that was the whole story. The British wanted to control any potential threat to the Suez Canal, whereas the French, well.. the French just didn't want to be left out.. ;) And if they had the Palestinians well-being at heart, then why did they permit the Hashemites to establish Arab rule over them by making Abdallah the King of Trans-Jordan?? So, this justifies foreigners coming in, dominating the process, usurping it actually? I don't know if it justifies it, but that depends upon one's perspective. Some people feel justified creating order out of chaos, establishing a structure of laws that extends beyond the law of the jungle. Some feel justified to divide and conquer, permitting their opponents to tear each other apart, after which they come in an subjugate them all. But in reality, it really doesn't matter. What has happened is in the past. What WILL happen in the future is up to the current generation to decide. And one more thing that needs to be remembered is that there was never much self-identification of being a Palestinian nation other than the fact that these people happened to have settled and lived in a particular region. The language they shared was Arabic, their religion is Islam and Christianity, and they were more than ready to become subjects of the Hashemites of Jordan. It was not until AFTER 1967 that the idea of a Palestinian national identity really took hold amongst the people. And that was after they were abandoned by their Jordanian and Egyptian dominars. Hawk