[merrylander]

The part that puzzles me is all the references to Palestine. That was a figment of Lord Balfour's imagination. When the League of Nations wanted a homeland for the Jews Britain was handed the mandate. So Balfour hands off what he called TransJordan to the Hashemite Kings (now Jordan). He gave the Golan Heights to Syria (then French) and what was left was supposed to be shared by the Jews and Arabs. The Arabs would have none of it, they desecrated Jewish cemetaries and were generally dogs in the manger. Frankly I have bloody little sympathy for the arabs.