Palestine Was Meant for the Jews and - When Palestine Was Syria

Here is a clipping from the New York Times newspaper, dated September 1, 1921, yes, 1921:

As you can read, the Arab delegation had two demands which they submitted to the League of Nations and to US President Harding:

a) France should not be awarded a Mandate over Syria

and

b) Palestine should not become a national home for the Jews.

Moreover, the telegram of protest to President Harding demanded that "Syria and Palestine should form one country" and that is based on a racial principle, that the country as formed, is one that only Arabs inhabit the land, Jews being only 7%.

In other words, minorities don't count.

But more important, a full year, at the least, prior to the League of Nations decision awarding Great Britain the Mandate over Palestine, all the civilized world, over 50 countries knew that Arabs thought Syria and Palestine one country, i.e., there really wasn't, at that time, a separate "Palestinian nationalism" and even more important, the Arabs knew quite well that Palestine was going to be the national home for the Jews, even over their opposition.

No mistake was made. Nor error. All knew that Palestine was meant for the Jews.

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