"You should realize how many people in the world believe that Israel shouldn't even exist."
There are a few; I'd estimate that it's about 99%, +/-, of those who think Jews shouldn't exist.
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"The latest meme from the anti-Western propagandists is that Israel was formed by British 'colonizers'."
Well, the Brits took over control from the Ottopeople after WW1, and, with the Balfour Agreement, they certainly started the ball rolling, but it's not that simple, and they weren't very helpful. This is the ME; nothing in the last 4000 years has been simple
Myths & Facts The British Mandate Period (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
MYTH
The British allowed Jews to flood Palestine while Arab immigration was tightly controlled.
FACT
The British response to Jewish immigration set a precedent of appeasing the Arabs, which was followed for the duration of the Mandate. The British restricted Jewish immigration while allowing Arabs to enter the country freely. Apparently, London did not feel that a flood of Arab immigrants would affect the country’s “absorptive capacity.”
During World War I, the Jewish population in Palestine declined because of the war, famine, disease, and expulsion by the Turks. In 1915, approximately 83,000 Jews lived in Palestine among 590,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs. According to the 1922 census, the Jewish population was 83,000, while the Arabs numbered 643,000. 4 Thus, the Arab population grew exponentially while that of the Jews stagnated.
In the mid-1920s, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased primarily because of anti-Jewish economic legislation in Poland and Washington’s imposition of restrictive quotas. 5
The record number of immigrants in 1935 (see table) was a response to the growing persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. The British administration considered this number too large, however, so the Jewish Agency was informed that less than one-third of the quota it asked for would be approved in 1936. 6
The British gave in further to Arab demands by announcing in the 1939 White Paper that an independent Arab state would be created within ten years and that Jewish immigration was to be limited to 75,000 for the next five years, after which it was to cease altogether. It also forbade land sales to Jews in 95% of the territory of Palestine. The Arabs, nevertheless, rejected the proposal.
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