Saturday, September 12, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Alex Grobman: Keeping Israel On The Defensive As Long As Possible With Lie After Lie - '...Israel was created in 1948 in one-sixth of the area allotted by the Balfour Declaration. The Allies had gained a vast area from the Turks during the war, and the British took one percent of the land the Great Powers acquired from the Turks to establish a Jewish Homeland. In appreciation for having liberated the Arabs from the "tyranny of a bestial conqueror," and providing them with independent states, Lord Balfour hoped they would begrudge the Jews "that small notch in what are now Arab territories being given to the people who for all these hundreds of years have been separated from it." The Arabs found even this small accommodation to the Jews unacceptable...'
