Further, the Jews are more one people. The Arabs are not one people.
That's not true at all, the Arabs were one people, since they were all inhabitants of Greater Syria with no discernible distinctions in language or culture. The only difference you could find is when you moved down to Gaza, which has always been more in the Egyptian sphere of influence. The Palestinians were not a separate nationality at the time even in their own eyes; that's why they waited to be rescued by Arab armies instead of organizing their own national resistance.
Moreover, the Arabs considered themselves one people, as did the Jews across far greater divides of culture and language (how much commonality did a bourgeois German Jew have with an Iraqi Jew?). The Arabs spent a great deal of time proclaiming their brotherhood with the Palestinians; it's just that the Arabs preferred to see that Palestinians rot in misery, so they could be grist for the mill.
Unfortunately, they still displaced a bunch of people to make a homeland for themselves. That is also a fact
No, the leaders of that bunch of people displaced them, by promising them a land rid of Jews, and failing to deliver. Had they accepted Partition, there would have been a Jewish and an Arab state since 1948, with very little displacement of either population. The Arabs are not animals or automata, they must receive the responsibility for their choices, same as other people. |
