Friends | View all 6 posts shadowline: I don't know what was going on in 1670. You can find an example of everything, if you look hard enough. But the region the San Remo Conference (1920) recognized as Palestine, which included everything that is now Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, was called "South Syria" by Arabs at the outset of the creation of the Jewish homeland; that is, just after the First World War. That's why Feisal Ali ibn al Hussein, the leader of the Arab Revolt against the Turks and future king of Iraq, said "there is room in Syria for us both" (meaning Arabs and Jews) after he had met with Chaim Weizman and agreed to the implementation of the terms of the Balfour Declaration. He was thinking of the whole region, or everything that is now Lebanon, Syria, Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan. Before the mandates were established. snowdrift68: (Bloomberg) -- The US House failed to pass a $17.6 billion Israel funding package that has become tied up in a prolonged political battle over Ukraine war aid and border policies. President Joe Biden had threatened to veto the measure because it didn’t include funds for Ukraine, leading most Democrats to oppose it. Many progressives also assailed the bill because it didn’t include humanitarian aid for Palestinians. dogbonezoo: https://www.commentary.org/articles/sol-stern/palestinian-nakba-narrative-wants-israel-dead/ |
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