re: #14 Obdicut

Of course people call into question Britain’s right to split former colonies up into nations. Britain had no right to those places in the first place. The US had no right to seize land from the American Indians, either. This doesn’t matter. What matters is the current, actual situation.

That is a complete rewriting of history, and completely false.

First there are no former colonies there. That is simply a false way to describe that land. It was NEVER a colony of Britain.

The Ottoman Empire lost all its Middle East territories during World War One. The Treaty of Svres of August 10, 1920 abolished the Ottoman Empire and obliged Turkey to renounce all rights over Arab Asia and North Africa. It was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.

The Ottoman Empire’s former possessions were NEVER British colonies.

The decisions about these formerly Ottoman Empire territories was determined at a conference in San Remo, Italy on April 24-25, 1920 attended by Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and as an observer, the United States.

They absolutely had the right to determine what would be done with the land, and they did so at the San Remo Conference. It was done legally and properly. Britain was NEVER given title to the land, but was given a trust, a Mandate to return the land to the Jews.