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6 posted on 06/07/2006 5:46:05 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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This is silly. The Golan Heights used to be part of British Palestine. In the late 1920s, the area was ceeded to French-controlled Syria,
in exchange for French recognition of some other British claims in the Middle East.

All this was part of the fall-out after World War I.

Most of the borders of the Middle East are artificial creations of European diplomats (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq); and have nothing to do with traditional ethinic homelands (Israel, Kurdistan, Armenia, etc.)


8 posted on 06/07/2006 5:51:18 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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