Israel
Israel was created at the end of the Second World War following the revelation of the atrocities committed against Jews by the Nazis. This is not to say that the Nazis did not commit the same atrocities against the disabled or gypsies, but that the Jews were claiming that they needed a country of their own in which they would no longer be persecuted by reason of their race.
The UN felt sorry for the Jews and took pity on them. Britain withdrew their mandate of Palestine, and the UN split the area up into Arab and Jewish states. This arrangement was rejected by the Arabs. Unsurprisingly, they wanted the land that they lived on to remain their country.
Now I cannot see any reason why rational person would have supported the creation of a Jewish state in the middle of a bunch of Arab states… In fact, all the land in the world had already been claimed as part of countries, including Antarctica. What right did the UN have to dissolve a state to create more? Surely the people living there should have had some say in the matter?
It seems to me that the main problem with the creation of Israel is that it was effectively an invasion supported and paid for by the UN. This is why the Arab world dislikes Israel, and why their hatred is justified. The UN needs to accept that it made a mistake in imposing the Jews on the Arabs.
To rectify this misguided action the UN must do what it can to create a free state – neither Jewish nor Arab, but with appropriate democratic representation for all. The UN has the power and the mandate to solve the problem. They should have stepped in before 1967 to prevent the wars that followed. I hope they will soon.
Of course the response to this will be that I’m anti-semitic. Unfortunately for my critics, I don’t care what religion or race anyone is. I’ll happily say all races / religions / governments and organisations have all and will all be wrong at some point. The true test of them is whether they can admit to their mistakes and try to rectify them, instead of glossing over them, or passing new laws that make it illegal to point them out – Mr Bush.
The UN felt sorry for the Jews and took pity on them. Britain withdrew their mandate of Palestine, and the UN split the area up into Arab and Jewish states. This arrangement was rejected by the Arabs. Unsurprisingly, they wanted the land that they lived on to remain their country.
Now I cannot see any reason why rational person would have supported the creation of a Jewish state in the middle of a bunch of Arab states… In fact, all the land in the world had already been claimed as part of countries, including Antarctica. What right did the UN have to dissolve a state to create more? Surely the people living there should have had some say in the matter?
It seems to me that the main problem with the creation of Israel is that it was effectively an invasion supported and paid for by the UN. This is why the Arab world dislikes Israel, and why their hatred is justified. The UN needs to accept that it made a mistake in imposing the Jews on the Arabs.
To rectify this misguided action the UN must do what it can to create a free state – neither Jewish nor Arab, but with appropriate democratic representation for all. The UN has the power and the mandate to solve the problem. They should have stepped in before 1967 to prevent the wars that followed. I hope they will soon.
Of course the response to this will be that I’m anti-semitic. Unfortunately for my critics, I don’t care what religion or race anyone is. I’ll happily say all races / religions / governments and organisations have all and will all be wrong at some point. The true test of them is whether they can admit to their mistakes and try to rectify them, instead of glossing over them, or passing new laws that make it illegal to point them out – Mr Bush.
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