Tossing the Peels

The Peel Commission of 1937 and 1938 offered to the Palestinian Arabs nearly 80% of Western Palestine (this after the Hashemite kingdom was awarded ALL of Eastern Palestine in 1922). They rejected it. They rejected it because they didn't want the Jews to even have that miniscule amount; 20%. Look, I have no problem admitting that the Balfour Declaration was unreasonable. But to go from 100% of Mandate Palestine to 6% (Western Palestine represented only 30% of the total territory), and the Jews accepting it and the Arabs NOT, it's certainly hard for me to accept any more this notion that the Jews were the unreasonable ones here...........................................................................................P.S. And as for this whole notion that the Jews pilfered the land, bullshit. They bought it and they overpaid. This, folks, from the Peel Commission text itself - "Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased...There was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land." Game, set, and match - boom.