Was the Creation of Modern Israel a Big Mistake?
OP - March 13, 2012, 02:03 PM
With the vast majority of modern problems of the Middle East stemming from the creation of Israel I was wondering whether it should have never been formed in the first place. If the Jews wanted a home land the Western powers could have given them somewhere else; as suggested by the Wiki quote below. But the Zionists wanted Palestine because of the bogus claim that their God had promised it to them; as set out in some book.
In the Wiki quote Weizmann is a Zionist and Balfour is the leader of the opposition, just after losing power as the British Prime Minister:-
During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann's objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, (the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Programme), rather than in Palestine. According to Weizmann's memoir, the conversation went as follows:
"Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?" He sat up, looked at me, and answered: "But Dr. Weizmann, we have London." "That is true," I said, "but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh." He ... said two things which I remember vividly. The first was: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" I answered: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves." ... To this he said: "If that is so you will one day be a force."
‘Dr. Herzl was indifferent at first whether he led them to Argentina or to Palestine, he quickly perceived the commercial value of keeping the name of the old fi rm on his prospectus … And the promoters knew their public. Poor Jews, who would have preferred the fleshpots of Egypt to the unknown terrors of South America, jumped at the sound of Jerusalem.’
Aspects of the Jewish Question by a Quarterly Reviewer with a Map
(London: John Murray, 1902), p. 20
‘The Congo State has land enough which we can use for our settlement. We can take over part of the responsibilities, that is, pay an annual tax, which may be fixed later, to the Congo State, in return for which we naturally lay claim to self-government … If King Leopold turns a willing ear to the matter, I shall go to see him at once.’
Theodor Herzl, 12 July, 1903 in Raphael Patai (ed.),
The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, Vol. IV
(New York: Herzl Press, 1960), pp. 1511–12
‘There is only one cure for this world-evil, and that is for all the Christian white races to combine and to repatriate to Palestine and the neighbouring territories every Jew, male and female, and to take the most drastic steps to see that, once they have founded their Zionist state in their own Promised Land, they permanently remain there.’
The Jews’ Who’s Who: Israelite Finance. Its Sinister Influence,
Popular Edition (London: The Judaic Publishing Co.,
H.H. Beamish, Proprietor, 1921), p. 43
‘What the French could do in Tunisia, I said, the Jews could do in Palestine, with Jewish will, Jewish money, Jewish power and Jewish enthusiasm.’
Dr Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error
(New York: Shocken Books, 1966), p. 244
So why were the Jews not given some other land, and why did they end up in Palestine ? Was it because of anti-semitism in Britain? Was it because of imperialistic/colonial ambitions of Britain ? Was it because of this bogus claim of God and the christian disposition of the Western world ? And did the guilt of WW2 and Nazis tip the balance in their favour ?
I am my own worst enemy and best friend, itsa bit of a squeeze in a three-quarter bed, tho. Unhinged!? If I was a dog I would be having kittens, that is unhinged. Footloose n fancy free, forced to fit, fated to fly. One or 2 words, 3 and 3/thirds, looking comely but lonely, till I made them homely.D
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