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Originally Posted by Pierre
As Chris, has pointed out much earlier in this thread, everybody on either side likes to pick arbitrary starting points regarding that location to suit their narrative.
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I’ve asked Seph, in particular, multiple times to justify his choice of 1948 as his starting point. I was picking on him only because when he set out his potted history of the conflict he made a point of claiming to have done a lot of work to provide detail. I dispute any claim that a summary starting in 1948 comes anywhere close to the necessary detail. It’s like trying to understand World War 2 while assuming nothing important occurred prior to 3rd September 1939.
I repeated my request to Seph when he made comments about people choosing either to blame, or ignore, British foreign policy (especially in the context of empire). The British ruled the territory in question under authorisation from the United Nations via the Mandate for Palestine from 1920 to 1948 and many of the reasons why it has been impossible to get the parties to come to terms are rooted in that period (though not exclusively - you really have to go back to the mid 19th century to really understand how we got to where we are now).
Sadly, on both occasions, Seph has chosen to ignore my requests.