Post by Daniel on Aug 26, 2018 8:57:13 GMT -5
Mr. President: The Palestinians Already Got 'Their Turn'
By Stephen Flatow/JNS.org
August 24, 2018
President Donald Trump said this week that following the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, now the Palestinian Arabs "will get something very good because it's their turn next."
Somebody ought to explain to the president that the Palestinians have already had "their turn"--again and again and again.
They got their turn in 1921, when the British separated the eastern 78 percent of Palestine, declared it off-limits to Jews and established the Palestinian Arab state of "Trans-Jordan," whose name was later changed to "Jordan."
They got their turn in 1937, when the British government's Peel Commission proposed to give the Arabs a second Palestinian state, comprising most of western Palestine, with a tiny Jewish state alongside it.
They got another turn in 1938, when another British government body, the Woodhead Commission, proposed to give the Arabs an even larger part--and the Jews an even smaller part--of western Palestine.
They got yet another turn in 1939, when the British White Paper blocked off almost all Jewish immigration, precisely at the moment that the Jews in Europe were trying to flee from Hitler. All the British asked in return was that the Palestinian Arabs support the Allies, not the Nazis, in World War II. The Arabs supported the Nazis anyway.
Yet more turns were coming for the ever-coddled Arabs of Palestine.
Somebody ought to explain to the president that the Palestinians have already had "their turn"--again and again and again.
They got their turn in 1921, when the British separated the eastern 78 percent of Palestine, declared it off-limits to Jews and established the Palestinian Arab state of "Trans-Jordan," whose name was later changed to "Jordan."
They got their turn in 1937, when the British government's Peel Commission proposed to give the Arabs a second Palestinian state, comprising most of western Palestine, with a tiny Jewish state alongside it.
They got another turn in 1938, when another British government body, the Woodhead Commission, proposed to give the Arabs an even larger part--and the Jews an even smaller part--of western Palestine.
They got yet another turn in 1939, when the British White Paper blocked off almost all Jewish immigration, precisely at the moment that the Jews in Europe were trying to flee from Hitler. All the British asked in return was that the Palestinian Arabs support the Allies, not the Nazis, in World War II. The Arabs supported the Nazis anyway.
Yet more turns were coming for the ever-coddled Arabs of Palestine.
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