Jewish Groups Pull Support From Oregon Food Bank for Blasting 'Israel's Violence' in Gaza

[Beastly Boy]

36. These are interesting facts indeed.

They remind me that, as a consequence of losing a war, the colonial territories of one empire were taken over by other empires. It goes without saying that Sykes-Picot partitioned the former Ottoman Empire's Arab colonies into spheres of influence under Britain and France has nothing to do with partitioning Palestine. It is also worth noting that, in the context of Sykes-Picot, Balfour had no part in carving up those former colonies or give anything away to anyone. Likewise, let me remind you that it is the Arabs who rejected the recommendations of the Peel Commission prior to its rejection by the 1937 Zionist Congress, just as they rejected the 1947 UN partition, and at least three other offers for creating their own state. You did not dispute them rejecting the offers, did you?

There was no State of Egypt until 1936, no Iraq until 1930, no Jordan until 1946, no Lebanon until 1943, no Saudi Arabia until 1933, no Syria until 1944, and no Israel until 1948. There was no administrative unit called Palestine for 15 centuries prior to the British mandate, an there were virtually no Arabs in the area until 7th century AD, and no such thing as Palestinian State until PLO unilaterally declared itself to be a state in 1988.

And need I remind you how many times the Jews had been ethnically cleansed, in the Middle East alone, since 1948?

So you see, the vast majority of the contemporary Middle East owe their existence to "imperial granting", and your indignant references to it are patently one-sided and all too conspicuously focused, as usual, on a single target for your criticism with complete disregard of the the wider context.

Likewise, there were no separate West Bank and Gaza territories until 1950, when they were annexed by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, and there are 2 million Palestinian citizens of Israel who consider their homeland to be part of Israel.

So what is so "original" about the Palestinians still claiming their homeland "from the river to the sea" despite their noses?