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div class="excerpt"]Most of the Palestinian Mandate (around 80%) would have gone to the Palestinians and the Jews could have helped everyone in that region prosper.......Would that be so bad?
Another irrelevant question!.....I am not a Palestinian so why ask me if it would be so bad?....Anyway, Jabotinsky put it rather succinctly all those years ago:
"We can talk as much as we want about our good intentions; but they understand as well as we what is not good for them. They look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true fervor that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie. To think that the Arabs will voluntarily consent to the realization of Zionism in return for the cultural and economic benefits we can bestow on them is infantile."
"As long as there is a spark of hope that they can get rid of us, they will not sell these hopes, not for any kind of sweet words or tasty morsels, because they are not a rabble but a nation, perhaps somewhat tattered, but still living. A living people makes such enormous concessions on such fateful questions only when there is no hope left."
Jabotinsky was at least honest about the situation......You seem to believe, like all colonial occupiers, that "cultural and economic benefits" are all the natives need.
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