Mouin Rabbani

I mean, one doesn't have to sympathize with the Palestinians to recognize that they have now been a stateless people for 75 years. Can you name any country Yours, for example, or yours, that would be prepared to give 55%, 25%, 10% of your country to the Palestinians? Of course not. And so the issue was not the existence of Jews in Palestine. They had been there for centuries.

I mean, one doesn't have to sympathize with the Palestinians to recognize that they have now been a stateless people for 75 years. Can you name any country Yours, for example, or yours, that would be prepared to give 55%, 25%, 10% of your country to the Palestinians? Of course not. And so the issue was not the existence of Jews in Palestine. They had been there for centuries.

And of course, they had ties to Palestine and particularly to Jerusalem and other places going back centuries, if not millennia. But the idea of establishing an exclusively Jewish state at the expense of those who are already living there, I think... It was right to reject that.

And of course, they had ties to Palestine and particularly to Jerusalem and other places going back centuries, if not millennia. But the idea of establishing an exclusively Jewish state at the expense of those who are already living there, I think... It was right to reject that.

And of course, they had ties to Palestine and particularly to Jerusalem and other places going back centuries, if not millennia. But the idea of establishing an exclusively Jewish state at the expense of those who are already living there, I think... It was right to reject that.

And I don't think we can look back now, 75 years later and say, well, you should have accepted losing 55% of your homeland because you ended up losing 78% of it and the remaining 22% was occupied in 1967. That's not how things work. And I can imagine an American

And I don't think we can look back now, 75 years later and say, well, you should have accepted losing 55% of your homeland because you ended up losing 78% of it and the remaining 22% was occupied in 1967. That's not how things work. And I can imagine an American

And I don't think we can look back now, 75 years later and say, well, you should have accepted losing 55% of your homeland because you ended up losing 78% of it and the remaining 22% was occupied in 1967. That's not how things work. And I can imagine an American

rejecting giving 10% of the United States to the Palestinians, and if that rejection leads to war and you lose half your country, I doubt that 50 years from now you're going to say, well, maybe I should have accepted that.

rejecting giving 10% of the United States to the Palestinians, and if that rejection leads to war and you lose half your country, I doubt that 50 years from now you're going to say, well, maybe I should have accepted that.

rejecting giving 10% of the United States to the Palestinians, and if that rejection leads to war and you lose half your country, I doubt that 50 years from now you're going to say, well, maybe I should have accepted that.

It was a matter of principle.

It was a matter of principle.

It was a matter of principle.

That last point is actually not correct because for all its injustice, the mandate system recognized Palestine as a class A mandate, which provisionally recognized the independence Of that territory.

That last point is actually not correct because for all its injustice, the mandate system recognized Palestine as a class A mandate, which provisionally recognized the independence Of that territory.

That last point is actually not correct because for all its injustice, the mandate system recognized Palestine as a class A mandate, which provisionally recognized the independence Of that territory.

It was provisionally recognized.

It was provisionally recognized.

It was provisionally recognized.