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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (224051)3/15/2005 1:47:21 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574573
 
You think the British are more responsible than the Israelis?

I plead ignorance on this subject. I should be ashamed.

All I know is that things are a mess.

My comments are not worth anything.

But, since you asked, my guess is that the British were in power when these things were being decided and they are more responsible than anyone else.

You are right in that the Brits. helped lay the groundwork for the current mess in Israel. In fact, for most of the early part of the 20th century, the Brits tended to favor the Zionist movement in Palestine in part as payment to a Brit. Jew who had developed an important military weapon during WW I that helped defeat the Germans. However, their position began to change during the 1930s and by the time WW II started, they were pretty much opposed to the concept of a Jewish state in Palestine. As a consequence, they suffered attacks from Zionist terrorist groups in the early 1940s.

However, news of the Holocaust at the end of the war softened their position somewhat and they decided to turn over the whole Israel/Palestine mess to the UN and the US. In the end, it was the US who trumpeted the creation of the Zionist state of Israel.

Having said that, circumstances have changed considerably since the 1940s. Israel is now THE regional superpower in the ME thanks to our undying support. And now its the Palestinians who are in the same stateless position that the Zionists were in at the end of WW II. And yet American policy on this issue seems to be frozen in time.

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