re: #260 JeffM70

They wanted their ancestral home land returned to them, and Germany was not it, so why would they want it?

Also, and this is important, there was a large and long-established Jewish community with roots going back to godknowswhen and expanded by immigration through the ninteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mandate Palestine. People have this idea that ‘the Jews’ from Europe were ‘given’ what is obviously ‘Arab land’, when in fact the Jews were a sizeable minority group that lived, farmed, traded, etc. in the region. Ancestral homelands aside, creating an independent Israel certainly made as much sense as creating, say, an independent Pakistan, or Kurdistan, or Bangladesh.

We’re gonna hit all my pet history peeves before the end of the day, aren’t we? Come on, someone, say something about Richard III, I dare ya!