@akuperma
This is one of the rare times I agree with what you post.
My late FIL Z”L was an officer in the British Police during the mandate, transitioning to the Mishtara upon independence.
We discussed this topic many times.
Most westerners just don’t understand that European colonial rulers drew maps and established countries where none had existed. A line in a map cannot unite tribes into a country.
In countless countries we have seen decades of civil war and genocide after independence.
I laugh at the mention of Pakistan and Bengladesh above. Lumping two territories separated by thousands of kilometers into one country because they were to be a homeland for Muslims was a joke.