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To: RobbyS
...few Americans know that not only were the Turks a European power but that they were by far the greatest Power, that their empire was as large as the old Roman Empire...

Yep. And few know the Turks sided with the losing side in World War I and lost the Land of Israel to the British. Muslim Ottomans had ruled Israel for 400 hundred years, and Egypt-based Muslims had ruled the area for several hundred years before that.

63 posted on 04/03/2011 8:24:02 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Or that the Brits and the French song and danced both the Jews and the Arabs to gain their support against then Turks. The two allies then split the Arab lands in the fertile crescent between them. At the same time, they promised that the Palestinian mandate was to be the Jewish homeland. Except that the area east of the Jordan was sliced up and given to Prince Feisel’s family after they were bounced from the Holy Cities. Jews were excluded from this area and required to settle west of the Jordan. The Brits then began to discourage Jewish settlement because that upset the Arabs, at the same time allowing Arabs from the region to flock to the area. In 1900, the land had probably been less settled than in Abraham’s time, and my guess is that two out of three “Palestinians”have great-grandfathers who had been born elsewhere. But they have successfully sold the myth that they have lived there since the time of Mohammed. Judging just from Mark Twain’s book about his trip to the Holy Land, the place was largely a desert when he was there.


65 posted on 04/03/2011 1:43:43 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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