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lostincalifornia

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6. Actually the UK made divided into two partions, an Arab section, and a Jewish section, but the Arab
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 02:21 PM
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neighbors urged them not to accept the Partition, and shortly after Israel became a state.

In fact the British Mandate appointed the Hajj al-Husayni as the grand Muufti of Jerusalem, a virulent anti-semite, until that mandate ended.

The same game was played in the 1967 war with Nassar, pushing the Jews to the sea, and the 1971 Yom Kipper War where the Arab neighbors pushed the Palestinians not to accept any two state solution. The Khartoum Resolution in 1967. "No peace with Israel, No negotiation with Israel, No recognition of Israel."


I think your analysis is right, the British were particularly "friendly" toward the Jews, they just wanted to "get rid of them". That being said, the British weren't particularly friendly toward the Indians, Chinese, etc. during their period of colonization either.





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