allandale

July 28th, 2009 11: 14am allandale - "I apologise for attributing to you views on anti Semitism that you subsequently have been quite content to own."

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That's odd. allandale - "But against the implacable opposition of the US and its Security Council veto the Palestinians very quickly came up against a brick wall."

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If there is, then why don't they just go ahead and be done with it. allandale - "... but instead you (collectively) take the view it has deeper existential roots in Muslim anti-Semitism."

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There is a long recorded history of Jewish sufferance under Muslim rule in Palestine and all other Arab/Muslim territories. allandale - "As to your claim for Jewish cultural seniority to justify a superior claim to the land I’m left flummoxed and speechless.

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None of these states 'membership or not with the UN determined whether they were a real sovereign state or not. allandale - "‘The first article of the 1920 San Remo Conference Resolution, which prepared the ground for the Mandate, stressed that it would only be acceptable provided ‘the rights hitherto enjoyed by the non-Jewish communities in Palestine’ were not surrendered."

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July 27th, 2009 6: 13pm allandale - "A point that Zionist fail to twig is that none of the Occupied Territories is Israel’s to trade."

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Non-Jews have continued their absence of sovereign rights just as the San Remo Conference insisted they should. allandale - "The principle that Arab land was to be held in trust as prescribed by Article 22 of the League of Nations Charter (which outlines the Mandate’s mission to safeguard the interests of native populations until such time as they were ready and able to govern themselves) remained paramount."

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I have no problem in accepting your being "left flummoxed and speechless" as an expression of ignorance about these sort of issues. allandale - "Now to the sensible part of your post.

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May I compliment you on your sophistry in constructing a grammaticaly confusing sentence. allandale - "I simply quoted the Peel Commission to show that from a practical quotidian perspective (as opposed to high theology which I’m not qualified to discuss and dare I presume neither are you) there was no animus between Arab and Jews until Jewish immigration to Palestine accelerated."

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July 27th, 2009 6: 06pm allandale - "All this doesn’t get away from the fact that people want to run their own affairs no matter how incompetently and the Palestinians were no different."

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