History and Context Israel and Palestine
"Those who don't study history are condemned to repeat it". What are the roots of this problem? Is history repeating itself? What must be understood to understand the situation, draw valid conclusions, and make workable solutions?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
1) the British promised Palestine to the Arabs in 1915 ... the only way a Jewish State could be set up was by "forcibly displacing the Arabs."
Arab Case | Monday, Jan. 30, 1939
The Arab cause in Palestine has no more expert pleader than polished scholarly George Antonius. An Arab Christian (110,000 of Palestine's 1,000,000 Arabs are Christians) educated at Cambridge, Mr. Antonius was, like Colonel T. E. Lawrence, a British official in Egypt during the World War. After the War he was a member of several British diplomatic missions and an assistant secretary in the Palestine Government until 1930. Mr. Antonius has been to many a foreign correspondent a sort of unofficial spokesman for the Arab High Committee.
Last week Mr. Antonius, after a short visit to the U. S.. sailed from Manhattan for London, where he is slated to be one of the Arab delegates in the forthcoming Arab-Jewish conference called by the British to ''solve'' the knotty Palestine problem. Not optimistic over the conference's outcome, Mr. Antonius was nevertheless hopeful that his new book. The Arab Awakening,* published last week, would win U. S. supporters for the Arab cause in Palestine.
Author Antonius' case for an Arab—as opposed to a Jewish—Palestine rests on two premises:
1) the British promised Palestine to the Arabs in 1915, when they persuaded Sherif Hussein of Mecca to aid them against the Turks;
2) the Arabs already occupied Palestine, and the only way a Jewish State could be set up was by "forcibly displacing the Arabs." ...
Arab Case | Monday, Jan. 30, 1939
The Arab cause in Palestine has no more expert pleader than polished scholarly George Antonius. An Arab Christian (110,000 of Palestine's 1,000,000 Arabs are Christians) educated at Cambridge, Mr. Antonius was, like Colonel T. E. Lawrence, a British official in Egypt during the World War. After the War he was a member of several British diplomatic missions and an assistant secretary in the Palestine Government until 1930. Mr. Antonius has been to many a foreign correspondent a sort of unofficial spokesman for the Arab High Committee.
Last week Mr. Antonius, after a short visit to the U. S.. sailed from Manhattan for London, where he is slated to be one of the Arab delegates in the forthcoming Arab-Jewish conference called by the British to ''solve'' the knotty Palestine problem. Not optimistic over the conference's outcome, Mr. Antonius was nevertheless hopeful that his new book. The Arab Awakening,* published last week, would win U. S. supporters for the Arab cause in Palestine.
Author Antonius' case for an Arab—as opposed to a Jewish—Palestine rests on two premises:
1) the British promised Palestine to the Arabs in 1915, when they persuaded Sherif Hussein of Mecca to aid them against the Turks;
2) the Arabs already occupied Palestine, and the only way a Jewish State could be set up was by "forcibly displacing the Arabs." ...
