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Divisive optimism.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
In his review of Pat Buchanan's book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War ("Sorry, No," June 30) David Pryce-Jones lists among Churchill's mistakes "the 1922 partition of Transjordan." Sorry, no. What Churchill partitioned (in 1921) was Britain's Palestine Mandate: into a Jewish homeland (not a state) west of the Jordan, and an Arab kingdom across the Jordan, i.e., "Transjordan."
Churchill persuaded Kings Abdullah (Jordan) and Faisal (Iraq) to respect the Jewish homeland, thinking he'd made good the "twice-promised Land" (Balfour to the Zionists, Lawrence to the Arabs). Churchill ...
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