Jews in palestine were just 80000 in 1922 v.s. 4 millions of arabs, if that percentage of people gives a title to made that territory their state, I think that Irish or Italians can take control of US, right ?
No matter how look at the question that was a theft, a not justifiable theft, and US (most of the western countries) are still paying for this.
If I break the Ripster's car and someone decide that Ripster can take your car as refund how do you call it ? Justice ?
This is exactly what happened in palestine
It certainly is true that many in the Arab world perceive the creation of the State of Israel as unfair for this kind of reason.
But if someone steals your car, do you pick up a gun and go looking for him? Or do you call the police?
Similarly, if the Arab world felt that the creation of Israel in 1947 was unfair, they could have continued diplomatic activity in the UN; they could have argued their case before the American people.
Basically, the world was like this: there were the free countries like the United States, Britain, and France, where the governments represented the people, where people could freely do business and keep what they earned, where individuals had the right to debate politics and elect their governments; and there were the evil enemies of freedom - first, the Nazis and other Axis powers, and then the Communists.
The world's free countries, thus, were the ones in charge of preserving the world against total conquest by the forces of darkness.
When the Arab countries took up arms against Israel in 1948, they were showing they had some other view of the world - they felt themselves free to take up arms against people from Europe on their own initiative. To take the law into their own hands, to hinder and obstruct the United States in the global defense of the world against Communism. In other words, they did not recognize that Israel belonged to the Zone of the Industrialized World (the Zone of Peace) as opposed to the Zone of the Third World (the Zone of Struggle) - in fact, they seemed to have this sort of thing backwards.
As to the justice of the thing, one can point to the Coptic Christians, or Pakistan's blasphemy laws. A minority that is mistreated does have the right to break away from that mistreatment, and without running away from their homes either.
It seems that the problem, fundamentally, though, is that the world is not big enough for the egos of the Islamists and the Americans... and the problem for the Islamic world is that the Americans are stronger. The path to survival for the Islamic world is simple - cut your losses with regard to Israel, don't keep attacking itself and digging yourselves in deeper and deeper, losing more and more territory.
After 9/11, the United States is not,
ever, going to admit it was "wrong" or "at fault" in any way whatever, in its dealings with the Islamic world - it may still graciously put some pressure on Israel to treat the Palestinians better, out of its own sense of fairness - and so the terrorist activities of al-Qaeda and others like them will have to come to a complete stop
without the United States admitting it was wrong to participate in the creation of the state of Israel and without it ceasing to do what is necessary to ensure that Israel continues to be secure. For anyone in the Islamic world to persist in dreams and delusions that anything else might be the case is to continue on a path that will lead for it to sorrow and destruction.
The events of September 11, 2001 have ensured that Israel isn't going anywhere, just as the events of December 7, 1941 ensured that Europe would be liberated from the Nazi occupation.
It is the strong, not the weak, that get to indulge that natural human emotional desire to proclaim, and make it stick, that
nobody gets away with pushing me around.
It doesn't change the fact, that N millions of Arabs doesn't have a Nation, because two or three countries equipped with the atomic bomb have decided elsewhere.
That's the only form of international right applied here.
You should also explain why an arab organization that want to impose it's form of religion is evil, while US when killed (directly or indirectly) thousands of people in latin america, central america and so on, are not.
If you want respect from someone, Arab people included, you have to start acting as you pretend the others do
The trouble is that the Islamic world started it.
You can even look at today's headlines.
Muslim men kidnap Coptic Christian women and force them to "convert" to Islam - then they escape. So, fanatical Muslims spread a rumor that the women freely converted to Islam, and are being kidnapped by bigoted Coptic Christians - and a mob believes these lies.
This sort of thing has gone on all along in the Islamic world, including with Jews as the victims, including before 1947, before 1922.
It seems, therefore, that the Muslim world does not work on the principle of fairness and reciprocity, but instead that Muslims can do what they like - and it may never have any consequences. If there are consequences, they will get indignant, and treat the consequences of their own abuse of non-Muslims
as though they were aggression.
There was violence against Jews before the partition of 1947. That's why the partition took place. Further losses of territory came about because the Arab world didn't cut its losses, but instead resorted to further attacks.
