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myerslaw: "At partition in 1948, Palestinians WERE given a country - it's called Jordan."
Wrong. The 1947 (not 1948) U.N. Partition did not, in any sense, include Jordan, but was instead only with respect the territory then known as Palestine (and today known as Israel and the Palestinian territories). A map of the 1947 U.N. partition is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/israel_and_palestinians/key_maps/6.stm
myerslaw: "Had the Arabs won in 1948, there would have been NO "Palestinian State." Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon would simply have fought over control of the territory -- and they had for centuries.
Wrong again. Egypt (as a current nation-state), Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon didn't even exist until after WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Those states were instead regions in the Ottoman Empire, and with its collapse WWI victors/middle east colonialists England and the France carved up the region into those nation - states. For the centuries before then during the Ottoman-era, the territory known as Palestine was generally at peace.
"If you know your history, then you would know where you're coming from."-- Bob Marley
