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Originally Posted by merrylander
Back after WW I the League of Nations established a mandate to find a "home" for the Jewish people - note that it was a "home" not a nation. The area of that mandate covered what is present day Israel, Jordan and the Golan Heights.
Much of what is present day Tel Aviv was purchased with real money from the owners of the land. Lord Balfour - in his infinite wisdom - gave the Golan Heights to Syria (now there is a real sweetheart) and all of what he named TransJordan to the Hashemite kings.
Things more or less stayed peaceful but then got ugly, no one (including Britain) came out of it all smelling of roses. After the Holocaust they decided that they were done with being pushed around, the result being Israel. As to our being their defender they seem to have been able to take care of themselves. I used to work with a former Israeli air force pilot, how a guy his size handled a jet fighter I have no idea.
Despite all the conspiracy wingnuts no Jew ever knocked down our embassies or twin towers or the Pentagon. No Jew has ever wanted to convert me, although at one time our son was dating a Jewish girl with her parents blessing.
I am still waiting to hear all those peace loving muslims condemn the actions of the jihadist terrorists. But I am not holding my breath.
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I understand what you're saying. But, for my part, here is what I don't get...
"Back after WW I the League of Nations established a mandate to find a "home" for the Jewish people................."
Why? Why in the hell, did ANYONE, EVER
have to "find a home for the Jewish people"? Whether it was the League of Nations, the UN, or whomever....What has the point in "finding a home" for these folks ever been?
Why can't they just go live wherever they end up, or relocate of their own volition like everyone else? Why did we
have to find a spot for them, pave the way for them to go live there and then spend the next several decades fighting to protect their little Zionist paradise? What is that? Have we ever done this for
anyone else? Relocated them because they
wanted to be relocated, that is?
Hell, even the Mormons only ended up in Utah because they were run out of everywhere else and there was no one there at the time to run them off again. And they reached Utah under their own steam.
Ahhhhh, but Israel? Ooooooo, now that's different..............Really? Why?
The whole thing is just bizarre.
Dave