Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani u0026 Benny Morris | Lex Fridman Podcast #418" video.

  1. 27:00 250,000 Arabs remained in 1948 in the new state, they now number 1.8 million, 21% of Israeli population, they serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and the IDF. Show me the comparable in the region.
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  2. Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, friend of Eichmann, who met with Hitler to discuss his "final solution" for the Jews, and father of the Muslim Brotherhood. Even before WW1, the local Arab elites wanted Jewish money, but not the Jews. In 1921 they wrote to Churchill telling him as much, and promised to side with the enemies of the UK if they allowed more Jewish immigration. You can read this report in the original: Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921. - available as a PDF at the Library of Congress website.
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  3. 1:25:56 Norman, Norman, the anti-semitism is clearly stated by the 3rd Arab Congress in 1921. You can read it, they even repeat the blood libel. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Original available at the Library of Congress website.
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  4. 1:43:07 The British never "gave up Palestine", the British never had Palestine. I'm so happy to listen to Norman and Mouin in this context, they really are deluded by some mythological belief system.
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  5. Theodor Herzl died on July 3, 1904, 44 years before partition.
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  6. Transfer also occurred with the loss of the Hejaz by the Hashemites to Ibn Saud. 1920/30s, as a consolation prize, the British gave Jordan and Iraq to them.
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  7. There's a Bedouin Brigade in the IDF.
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  8. "Report on the State of Palestine presented to the Right Honourable Mr. Winston Churchill P.C., M.P. by the Executive Committee of the Third Arab Palestine Congress. Jerusalem, March 28, 1921." - Library of Congress
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