Much later, Muslim Chairman of Syrian Delegation to Paris Peace Conference of February, 1919, remarked, Arab since the Conquest 635 AD, lasted as such, 22 years — -.. South African Jan Smuts, member of British War Cabinet, was involved in the discussions behind Balfour Declaration and..…

The Palestinians who fled or were driven out in 1948 did so during a war in which Arab states, most still British-dominated, some still with British officers in important positions in the invading armies, attacked the territory allocated to the Jews by the United Nations 1947 partition plan...…