Re: OT-Israeli Response to Rocket Attacks is "disproportionate".

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:21:35 -0600, "RAM³"
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"Lone Haranguer" <linuszrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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At the moment Israel declared itself an independent state and its Arab
neighbors attacked them, what percentage of land held by Jews was taken
illegally?

According to the Arabs (and supported by the British), all of it.


That's funny. Didn't the Balfour Declaration of 1917 spell out the
basic transfer of a homeland to the Jews in, then Palestine?

Read the text.-

Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's
Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist
aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their
best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the
civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any
other country".
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the
knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely
Arthur James Balfour


If anybody illegally took the lands, it was the UN and its
predecessor, the LoN.

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