Reply #31: Interesting

[Jack Rabbit]

How come Side B ended up with only about 25% of the land? That's as things stand now.

Now, as far as the 1960s, there were no "Palestinians" in the sense we use today. The leadership in the area insisted that they were Syrians. It was only in the 1960s that the concept of a "Palestinian" applied to an Arab group. Prior to that it had been used to apply to everyone in the mandate including Jews. Note, for example, that the Jerusalem Post used to be the Palestine Post.

Exactly what I said. In Mandated British Palestine, all groups were Palestinians. That fact that the term "Palestinian" did not come into common usage until later does not change that fact that Arab farmers living in the Jordan valley (including the West Bank) are distict from Jews and Bedouins.

They aren't Israelis and they are aren't Jordanians. They are Palestinians. The West Bank isn't Israel and it isn't Jordan. There are about 2.2 million Palestinian Arabs living there and another 1.3 million in Gaza.