Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

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280. The Anti-semitic US Did not Accept them. Neither did Anti-semitic Europe.

That is History.

And those dates are a list of who actually controlled the land from the time of the Muslim Conquest. That is the history of the people who lived there. You should notice that right up through the end Ottoman Empire, the entire region belonged to which ever conqueror could hold it. After the Ottoman's fell apart following WWI, the League of Nations created the British and French Mandate to administer the area.

The League of Nations, and its successor the UN, then went about setting up governments and drawing borders, in an often ham fisted way.

It is a fancy twisted argument that tries to deny history before 1948 and use "should have" as any kind of statement when discussing historical facts.

The Germans in WWII should have treated Jews, Gays, Gypsies, anyone with birth defects and many others with fairness and compassion.

The Americans should have returned to Britain and not stolen everything West of the Atlantic Coast. (Probably one of the greatest thefts of land form its original people in the history of theft.)

The British should have paid fair wages on plantations instead of establishing the slave trade so they could have a cheap form of labor and make greater profits from plantations.

I could go on, but those statements mean nothing. History is what happened not what should have happened.