Israel was conquered out from under British rule, though. It's not like it was a Palestinian country before we got there.
You know, I hate to ask, but who do you think was living there at the time?
I'm very well aware that the area was at the time a British Protectorate - my father in law was serving in the area when the Zionist extremists blew up the King David hotel and, oddly, he's never been a fan of the state of Israel since.
Given that the kingdom of Israel, ie a self governing Jewish state, had not existed since Roman times, and given that the refugees from that were decanted in on top of the indigenous population were the citizens of virtually every European nation from Portugal to the Crimea, it amazes me that anyone could ever have thought it would work.
Of course, fifty years on, the situation is not the same as it was then. The displaced population gradually dies or moves on, I suppose carrying with it the same memories that the Eastern European Jews must once have had, of a homeland they were dispossessed from. Meanwhile the incomers grow old and die, and their burials claim the soil, and the new generation grows up knowing no other home.
People don't forget - right or wrong - they carry their memories down the bloodlines.You can slap a lid on it, like Tito did in Yugoslavia, but people don't forget, and once the lid comes off, it's back to the fighting worse than it was before.
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Date: 2008-07-02 10:48 pm (UTC)You know, I hate to ask, but who do you think was living there at the time?
I'm very well aware that the area was at the time a British Protectorate - my father in law was serving in the area when the Zionist extremists blew up the King David hotel and, oddly, he's never been a fan of the state of Israel since.
Given that the kingdom of Israel, ie a self governing Jewish state, had not existed since Roman times, and given that the refugees from that were decanted in on top of the indigenous population were the citizens of virtually every European nation from Portugal to the Crimea, it amazes me that anyone could ever have thought it would work.
Of course, fifty years on, the situation is not the same as it was then. The displaced population gradually dies or moves on, I suppose carrying with it the same memories that the Eastern European Jews must once have had, of a homeland they were dispossessed from. Meanwhile the incomers grow old and die, and their burials claim the soil, and the new generation grows up knowing no other home.
People don't forget - right or wrong - they carry their memories down the bloodlines.You can slap a lid on it, like Tito did in Yugoslavia, but people don't forget, and once the lid comes off, it's back to the fighting worse than it was before.
Or that's how it appears to me anyway