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To: Elroy who wrote (247439)	11/6/2007 9:37:41 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Post-First World War, Jews made up only eight per cent of Palestine's population. Go read sometime of the Ottoman massacres of the Jews during WWI, though you will have to look for the accounts, as they have dropped down the memory hole. Something like 2/3 of the Jews of the Jerusalem died, according to what I've read. Anytime that you find an account that manages to lay out examples of Jewish terrorism without mentioning Arab terrorism, which was more prevalent by orders of magnitude (& as today, directed at other Arabs as well as Jews), you know whose narrative you are seeing reflected. For a narrative that tries harder to explain accounts without anachronistic revisions (it's hard to avoid them, the entire Arab world believes so passionately in a version of history that was rewritten retroactively), I highly recommend Fromkin's A Peace to End all Peace: The Making of the Modern Middle East. Basically, the Brits promised everything to everybody, a usual practice but done more so in Syria and Palestine. They thought bringing modern thought and ways to the Middle East in the form of the Zionists would be a big improvement for everybody, and possibly a useful ally. You must remember that this was in the days before multi-culturalism had taught us to pretend that every culture is just as good as every other culture. At the time, some Arab leaders, including the Hashemites, agreed with them. The Arabs hadn't run their own affairs in the Levant for 400 years. This nation-state thing was a new one to them. Churchill also figured that the more the Jews were involved with Zionism and the less with Bolshevism, the better.