Revisionist?

Submitted by Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan (United Kingdom), Feb 18, 2007 at 11:27

Submitted by Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan, Feb 15, 2007 at 17:39

"You have previously conceded, after much resistance, that the British did, in fact, take Palestine from the Turks during World War I. As anybody with a basic knowledge of history can tell you, this led to the Balfour Declaration in 1917 which in turn led to League of Nations mandate for Palestine, which in turn led to mass immigration of Jews to Palestine which in turn led to the eventual forming of the state of Israel. Given that the British capture of Palestine was the first link in this chain is therefore as clear as the nose on your face that 'Without the British, the Jews would have 0% of Palestine."

Submitted by Moshe, Feb 17, 2007 at 13:52

"There couldn't be a bigger lie than that. The mass immigration of Jews to Palestine didn't wait for the League of Nations mandate. It already started before WW1."

Well done, Moshe! Now we are getting somewhere. In effect, you are saying is that the above is completely rrelevant. Presumably you will have little trouble in sharing with us an approximation of the size of this pre-Balfour Jewish immigration? How many hundreds of thousands are we taking about here? Educate me. It must be considerably more than the 60,000 Jews that I had hitherto believed had lived there in 1910. Or the 83,000 who were censused in 1922, or for that matter, the 1.2M that the Israeli's counted in 1950, just 2 years after the British had left. These figures are obviously completely wrong. Obviously the only alternative to this conclusion is that you are 'full of it'.

Submitted by Moshe, Feb 17, 2007 at 13:52

"Now Sword, by saying this please don't misunderstand me that I mean that without the Holocaust there wouldn't be any Jewish State in Palestine. The certain knowledge of "what would have happened if, with, without, etc.…" is strictly your area of expertise."

Whoa, hang on a minute! Now you're saying that the Holocaust (which I apparently deny, so why bring it up?) is involved? But didn't this happen decades later? Parallel universes are one thing, Moshe, but are we getting into the realms of time travel here? Or are you simply grasping at straws? Yet again!

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