To the Arabs Started: You wrote "The roots of the 1948 war go as far back as the first recognition on the part of the Palestinians that the Zionists wished to establish a Jewish state on their land."

BECKY: They didn't call themselves "Palestinians" then. They called themselves Arabs and were rallying for the pan-Arab State which would allow no one but Arabs or Muslims to live there. They still are. In 1948, the Palestinians were the Jews.

YOU WROTE: "In late 1947 the United Nations proposed that Palestine....

BECKY: Actually, in 1947 they had already partioned the British Palestine Mandate into what was to be two Arab and Jewish states. The Arab State formed earlier was Jordan which is a monarchy and currently rules a population that is 60% Palestinian Arab. BTW No Jew is allowed to live there ever.


YOU WROTE: It was to be divided into a Palestinian Arab state and a Jewish state. The UN
Partition Plan recommended that 55 percent of Palestine, and the most fertile region,...

BECKY: Actually when the early Zionists bought land near Tel Aviv and Haifa it was a low-lying swamp and malaria ridden. After Jewish kibbutzem were established to drain the swamp, they found the land to be incredibly fertile.

YOU WROTE: ... be given to the Jewish settlers who compromised 30 percent of the population."

BECKY: The British had put a stop on Jewish migration to Palestine stemming what would have been a flood of Jewish immigrants by that time.

The remaining 45 percent of Palestine...

BECKY: You are forgetting that the much larger state of Jordan had already been formed and this was the second time "Palestine" was to be divided between a Jewish and an Arab/Muslim state.

YOU WROTE:.... was to comprise a home for the other 70 percent of the population who were Palestinians.

BECKY: Not including all the Palestinian Arabs who already had been given a state in Jordan.

You have to do some real strange math to come up with these kind of numbers. The bottom line is this--do the Jewish people have a right to have any kind of state at all in the Mideast?

More later if I feel like it.

P.S. Are you cutting and pasting the entire book? Why not put some of your own ideas out. At least Steve writes his own copy and signs his own name.