From: David Lubkin (extropy@unreasonable.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 14:36:26 MDT
At 12:56 PM 4/10/2002 -0400, Mike wrote:
> > >The Arab residents of the West Bank were citizens of Jordan in
> > >1967. Jordan fought a war against Israel and lost the West Bank.
>
>Actually, the West Bank was originally part of Palestine under the
>British Mandate and was distinctly separate from Jordan. It was Jordan
>which illegally seized the West Bank and forced all residents to become
>Jordanian citizens.
If you go back farther, all of Jordan was part of pre-WW 1 Palestine.
-- David.
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