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    Default Re: How is a two state solution Fair or Equitable to Palestine?

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    I have to admit I don't understand the point you are trying to make here. If I am reading the second sentence and last two sentences correctly, you do not think that the UK, US and France bears any responsibility for setting up the current situation?

    Good point. Would further negate Rory's point that the Palestine situation of today is detached from the meddling of Great Powers in the region pre-1950.
    Most of Europe was redrawn in this time frame, involving levels of destruction that the Middle East has not seen. But of course the UK is completely responsible for the actions of everyone in the Middle East... Sorry, they are responsible for themselves.

    I am amazed that the only things the UK has the power to influence is the world is in previous colonial territories.

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    Default Re: How is a two state solution Fair or Equitable to Palestine?

    Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
    Most of Europe was redrawn in this time frame, involving levels of destruction that the Middle East has not seen. But of course the UK is completely responsible for the actions of everyone in the Middle East... Sorry, they are responsible for themselves.

    I am amazed that the only things the UK has the power to influence is the world is in previous colonial territories.

    The Great Powers, notably England and France but not absent the influence of the Ottomans (who owned all of the Holy Land prior to 1915) or the USA (who helped set up the LoN (even though not joining), did lay some of the groundwork for the Arab Israeli wars through the specific borders drawn etc. prior to and just after WW2. After 1948, and certainly after the Suez crisis, it would be very hard to assert that England was a prime mover for events -- that was indeed the work of the locals themselves (though aided and abetted by the USA v USSR move countermove stuff of the Cold War). England had a good deal of influence on things prior to 1948, but very little thereafter.
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