To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189382 ) 6/15/2006 2:17:54 AM From: Elroy Read Replies (2) | Respond to Before 1948, the country was called "Transjordan". The answer is No. No Jews were allowed to live in Transjordan. Jews did own land & live in areas of the Mandate of Palestine that were taken and occupied by Transjordan in 1948. These areas include what is today called the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, and the Old City of Jerusalem. When Jordan took these places, they ethnically cleared them of Jews and tried to destroy all traces of Jewish history. They destroyed 53 synagogues in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. And tell me, how is it that if Jews are accused of ethnic exclusion, it's absolutely unacceptable, but when you point out that Arabs do it in a big way, it's excused as "cause and effect"? There are large minority populations throughout the Mideast. The Arabs always treat them badly. So far, only the Jews have had the effrontery not only to gain national independence, but to flourish in a way that puts the Arabs to shame. The Kurds and the Copts would like to follow, I'm sure. The Arabs won't accept that either. Is that proof that non-Arabs have no right to self-determination?
