Immigrants can enrich a nation. But there is a difference between immigrants and colonists. The former are eager to learn<span> the ways of their adopted home, to integrate and perhaps assimilate — which does not require relinquishing their heritage or forgetting their roots. Colonists, by contrast, bring their culture with them and live under their own laws. Their loyalties lie elsewhere.</span>
Many Arabs were dissatisfied with the Balfour declaration because they feared that their territories would be taken away and that they would be attacked because of different religion between them.
The King of England was doing it and he was putting them on everything.
North: They had troops, guns, equipment, and provisions inside, and they owned it, and so they wanted to keep it.
South: It was located in the South, and they thought it was rightfully theirs, and that is why they wanted it
It didn't really have any strategic importance, however, it had political importance
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