Did you miss the previous 5 Arab-Israeli wars?
The last of those was fought how many years ago? The war that’s being fought now is against the Palestinian refugees, and if there were no refugees there would be no war. Both sides are getting outside assistance. The Israelis get a whole lot more than the Palestinians.
The UN, by feeding the refugees for 60 years at US taxpayer expense. If those despots had had to feed them on their own nickel, they would have looked to resettle them in a hurry.
That’s the ideal solution, isn’t it? Just make them go away, even if we have to starve a bunch of them to do it. Then you wonder why they blow themselves up.
The plan, in case you forgot, was for a partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
A wonderful compromise. First an outside power settles a foreign population in your midst, then, in a moment of magnanimity, they offer to give them only half the place instead of all of it. Can’t imagine why they didn’t go for it.
That was a colonial-era solution: white man sits down, thinks a minute, and says ok, we put these people here, and move these over here, and everything is fine. Didn’t work too well in the post-colonial era. Didn’t work too well in the pre-colonial era either.
The only compromise that would have meant anything would have been the surrender of the goal of a Jewish State, which would have raised at least the theoretical (though by that time highly unlikely) possibility of coexistence in the same territory. It wasn’t offered.
It amuses me that you always bring up the idea that the Mufti was trying to implement Hitler's final solution, without mentioning that the Zionists were equally devoted to implementing Herzl's solution, which required either the expulsion or the subjugation of the non-Jewish population of Palestine. Unlike Hitler, the Palestinian Arabs faced a real threat from the Zionists. It is pretty absurd to pretend that their motives were analogous. |
