Israel Mourns Teenagers, Strikes Hamas In Gaza

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Disliking Israeli policy with respect to West Bank settlements is quite a bit different than disliking Israel. One can like Israel and Israelis, but dislike their settlement policy. Hell, a significant percentage of Israelis dislike their own country's settlement policy. Does that make them anti-Israel? It's also interesting to note that a significant number of the Zionist zealots who are living in the West Bank settlements are American-born Jews who have recently moved to Israel. One of the three murdered kids had dual American/Israeli citizenship, BTW.

Back in the beginnings in the early 1900 Theodore Herzl propose creation of a "home" for the Jewish people, not a 'state". I imagine his proposal was to find a country that would welcome them.

The the League of Nations got this idea and bent it out of shape and gave Britain (under Lord Balfour) a mandate to create a home/state fot the Jewish people. Well Balfour started divvying up the parcel the League had proposed. He gave Jordan to the Hashemite Kings, the Golan heights to Syria (under French rule at the time, it was from these heights that the Syrians used to shell Israeli farmers below) and the bit that was left was supposedly where the Jews were to live,

At first they bought land from the Arabs, most of what is present day Tel Aviv was purchased. Needless to say relations between the two were not friendly but it was actually the Arabs who landed the first blows.

When Jordan invaded and took the West Bank we never heard jack shit from anyone. After the seven days war the Arabs were to have the west bank but they said we are going to push the Jews into the sea.

I guess because Lester 'Mike' Pearson got the Nobel Prize for his efforts in the area I acquired an interest in its history.