Dimitry Toukhcher
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And so the Hashemites were given a state called Transjordan.
So the people ruling that country weren't really from there.
They were just like, well, you were a royal family.
We'll give you this place.
The British made that decision, right?
At the same time, Israel was given a state as well.
So there's these two groups of refugees, right?
The Arabs did not accept that solution.
They did not want the existence of a Jewish state in that place, as tiny as it was.
And so a war broke out.
Israel won the war.
The Arabs called it Nagva.
The Israelis called it the War of Independence.
And unfortunately or fortunately, I don't know which side you want to take, the only thing that's more cruel than a war is not letting somebody finish a war because then it continues.
Right.
Make sense?
Yeah.
A war without a winner, it's like when you see two fighters beefing in the UFC.
If there is a controversial ending to the fight, they're going to keep beefing.
Right.