Gooch on Palestine

Is there a Palestine?

It was not created by the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

Israel, with the help of the UN did not invade Palestine and create a Jewish homeland. It was already there. Jewish people were living in what is now Israel for thousands of years and up to that point.

The U.N Partition Plan was an attempt to quell the violence between Arabs and Jews, but it did just the opposite.

British intervention had kept the fire of hate smoldering for decades before the UN mandate.

The point that I am making that constant interventionalism leads to hate, distrust and terrorism . "Palestinians" were not the original terrorists, they just saw how well it worked for the Irgun and Lehi, (Jewish equivalent of the Al Aqua's Martyrs brigade), and expanded its use to civilian targets.

This problem was created by British Colonials, perpetuated by the League of Nations and now the U.N.

I know that this is the Jewish holy land. I have utmost respect for that position.

Why couldn't the U.N. have mandated that a section of Germany be used to form a Jewish State? We won the war, and as far as we were concerned it was international territory (they divided it up and everything).

Can't go back now. We need to work with Abbas, and we should have worked more closely with him for some time now. He is the chance at peace Arafat never was. We worked for decades to get someone like Abbas into power, and when we did, we turned our back on him. Israel has too.

Give Palestine a state. Israel should draw it out, fence it up, and let them have it. We've got to stop giving them an excuse to be terrorists. Without excuses, the terrorists movement dies.

We need to stop our interventionalist foreign policy, and limit the UN to food drops, and a place for countries to negotiate with each other, not a supreme body.

Reg-E has a point when he says we should let them kill each other. I just think we need to stop giving them excuses to blame us for the problem that Great Britain and the UN created.