Well, Israel needs it. I by no means approve of all that the Zionists have done in Palestine, but one thing is sure: The Brits promised them a homeland in Palestine and the right to live there peaceably. This was something they never enjoyed under Turkish rule. The same with the Jews who were there before the Zionists. But they had also made a deal with the Arab nationalists. The Arabs did not get their unified national state, but they did get several Arab states, divided as much because the Brits and the French had conflicting interests as because of the need to reward their Arab friends, to compensate them for their loss of the Holy Places to our good buddies the Sauds. So they divided the Palestinian mandate along the Jordan to Abdullah, who then proceeded to exile the Jews east of the river. The area west of the river was now Palestine where the Jews could live but in competition with the Arabs. Jews began to migrate into Palestine from abroad as did Arabs from the surrounding territories. Profiting from stable government and foreign investment, the land began to prosper and to incresae in population. The Brits were nervous about allowing Jews to come in because the Arabs were so resentful of a people they had traditionally held in great contempt. As conditions began to get bad in Europe, moer Jews came and this led to coflict and something close to civil war. The Jews did something they had never done before which was to arm themselves. Then came the war which complicated everything. Trying to keep the peace, the British tried to block Jewish immigration. Then the UN tried to solve the problem with partition. Even though this meant that Jewish settlement was further restricted, they went along —The Arabs did not, and so begins a war without end (it seems). inflamed now by militant Islamism. It does not help that the West, which had been so supportive of Israel out of bad conscience now is becoming tired of the moral burden , finds the Holocaust hairshirt much too irritating, and seems to wish that Israel would just surrender to the “inevitable.”
Well that was some good info for me.... More than I knew before.
“they went along —The Arabs did not, and so begins a war”
and the same holds from then til today....they will not change toward Israel...as I see it, anymore than we can expect that to change with the USA..They have their own agenda internationally and will play cards according to their cause.
<<< It does not help that the West, which had been so supportive of Israel out of bad conscience now is becoming tired of the moral burden , finds the Holocaust hairshirt much too irritating, and seems to wish that Israel would just surrender to the “inevitable.” >>>
Some in the West
Not all!