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> Naturally the opposing Arab leaders were against a plan that saw a majority population receive less land, a plan that was being put forward by people openly s
by jameshilliard 1y ago
> Naturally the opposing Arab leaders were against a plan that saw a majority population receive less land, a plan that was being put forward by people openly stating it was a first step to total control of everything.
Keep in mind that there is a state with a Palestinian majority population that came out of the division of the territory under the British Mandate system, that country of course is Jordan.
> It's a shame a better deal could not have been struck for the benefit of all the people with a millennium plus history in the Levant, of all faiths.
I think it's pretty clear that the Arab leaders at the time would never have accepted an independent Jewish state regardless of how fair the land division was.
- twixfel 1y agoMost people wouldn't accept a new country being made over their heads within their land. Jewish people had largely not been there since Roman times. That's a long, long time. Would you accept a country being founded in yours for, say, the Roma? I highly doubt it.
- jameshilliard 1y ago> Most people wouldn't accept a new country being made over their heads within their land. Jewish people had largely not been there since Roman times. There were plenty of Jews living on the land by the time of Israeli independence, land which had largely been acquired by purchases from Arab landowners. > Would you accept a country being founded in yours for, say, the Roma? I highly doubt it. Palestine was never a country prior to Israeli independence so that's probably not a realistic comparison either.