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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (298688)	8/7/2006 5:06:51 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578510

Elroy, I think you are making a mistake by giving the UN's Yes vote more weight than the No vote of every neighbor of Israel's at the time. I'm sure by today's standards, the formation of Israel would be considered nuts. But it was a different world back in 1948. Borders were being drawn all over the place for various reasons. Take a look at Korea's 38th parallel, for instance. No one put that to a vote. (And why wasn't Japan divided up instead, considering Japan was the real aggressor back in WWII?) There was strong opposition from a number of quarters to Israel's statehood and not just the Arabs. Why do you think the Zionists blew up the Jerusalem headquarters of the Brits? It was the US that pushed it through the UN over those objections.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (298688)	8/8/2006 1:20:36 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578510

I think you are making a mistake by giving the UN's Yes vote more weight than the No vote of every neighbor of Israel's at the time. I'm sure by today's standards, the formation of Israel would be considered nuts. But it was a different world back in 1948. Borders were being drawn all over the place for various reasons. Take a look at Korea's 38th parallel, for instance. No one put that to a vote. (And why wasn't Japan divided up instead, considering Japan was the real aggressor back in WWII?) None of that has to do with my point that the UN vote to partition Israel-Pal was refused by all of Israel's neighboring countries, and that the neighboring country's votes should matter more than the non-neighboring country's votes. Just because the status quo is the status quo doesn't mean that it is right.