http://www.israellycool.com/2005/03/07/goodwill/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Thu, 24 May 2012 05:09:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.israellycool.com/2005/03/07/goodwill/comment-page-1/#comment-2978 Anonymous Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:21:00 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2005/03/07/goodwill/#comment-2978 Ummm....Rats! I know there was supposed to be a reason but it seems to escape me at the moment. Oh, I know because the British Mandate set aside for Israel a tiny piece of land and they gave 80% of then-Palestine to what became a new country called Jordan (originally Trans-Jordan) that was, being 80% of Palestine, full of Palestinians. But, despite being a new country comprised of Palestinians, Jordan decided it didn't want to be a Palestinian country. Ahh that was the problem with my memory: it is not that the Palestinians deserve a country but rather their insistence that they deserve _two_ countries. Ummm….Rats! I know there was supposed to be a reason but it seems to escape me at the moment. Oh, I know because the British Mandate set aside for Israel a tiny piece of land and they gave 80% of then-Palestine to what became a new country called Jordan (originally Trans-Jordan) that was, being 80% of Palestine, full of Palestinians. But, despite being a new country comprised of Palestinians, Jordan decided it didn’t want to be a Palestinian country. Ahh that was the problem with my memory: it is not that the Palestinians deserve a country but rather their insistence that they deserve _two_ countries.

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