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To: Elroy who wrote (219403)	2/19/2007 4:21:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'll take a shot. Doesn't the 1948 UN resolution to establish the nation of Israel also establish right next to it the nation of Palestine? So even though the West Bank was administered by Jordan and Gaza administered by Egypt prior to the '67 war, aren't those two regions, based on the same UN resolution that establishes Israel, Palestine? Well, you're getting warmer. But the hitch is, the Arabs refused to establish Palestine, rejecting the idea of partition in 1937 and 1948, both times it was proposed. And you are quite right that it was proposed as new establishment of a state, since there was no historical precedent for any Arab state called "Palestine" or occupying the region of Palestine. It has always been Jews and Christians that care about the "Holy Land" to use the older term, since they recall Roman Judea/Palestine. Arabs and Turks never drew their maps that way, and if you look at Ottoman maps, you will see that the area that became the British Mandate of Palestine was divided up between three larger Ottoman provinces. The only solution acceptable to the Arabs was no Israel and no Palestine, and they tried to implement this solution in 1948, but failed. They did ethnically clear the West Bank and Gaza of Jews at that time, however. But nobody heard a single word about establishing an Arab Palestine from 1948 to 1967 because at that time the Arabs of Palestine did not have any national consciousness of being "Palestinians". Palestinianism is a new invention, since 1967, and its sole purpose as far as non-Palestinian Arabs are concerned, is as a club to bludgeon the Israelis with. So the question remains, how exactly, can land legally belong to an entity that does not now exist, and has never existed at any point in history? The last persons to administer the West Bank and Gaza legally were the Brits. I don't have an overall history from WW2 to 1973 to recommend, off the top of my head. Michael Oren's Six Days of War is an excellent book about the 6 Day War, and it gives a lot of background material that covers the period from 1948 to 1973.