I suggest to you that if you think that both sides are at fault here, you might read up a bit on the situation. I just took a refresher pass through the Encyclopedia Brittanica on-line, starting here.
britannica.com
In a nutshell, as you probably know, the Ottoman Turks, who occupied Palestine, among a lot of other places, sided with Germany in World War I. The Arabs living in Palestine fought against the Turks and were allied with the British. During the war, the British made a lot of conflicting promises, promising the Arabs that they would have their own nations after the Turks were thrown out, and also promising the Rothschilds that the European Jews could have a Zionist state. After the end of the War, the British, being colonial types, continued to occupy Palestine, but kept promising the Palestinians that they would have their own country eventually. After Hitler came into power, there was the pressure of Jews wanting to immigrate to Palestine and establish a Jewish state, which was in conflict with the pressure of Arabs wanting to have their own state.
I don't know how this would have resolved back then, if England hadn't stuck around I expect that the parties would have reached some kind of accommodation, or maybe the Jews would have settled elsewhere. But Britain kept the Palestinians at bay long enough for the Jews to establish Israel. The Jews displaced the Arabs, who became refugees. They confiscated the Arab land. Many of the people whose land was confiscated are still alive.
And the Palestinians still don't have their own state. Only now they aren't occupied by the Ottoman Empire, nor by the British, but by the Israelis.
It's not nice to steal people's land. Makes them very mad. And when you say you are going to give it back, but don't, it makes them very, very mad. |
