>Or the Brits owned it and sold bits to the Jews. You cant
>have your cake and eat it...


I like how you completely avoided responding to my explaination. By the way, don't play dumb, I think you who claims to be a graduated University student should understand that British ownership, in mandate form, was different than Arabic ownership of areas of land. British didn't own Arab lands, the just had massive military bases there to protect RESOURCES that they owned. There were still land owning Arabs.