Sorry for missing your point, but your actual point is actually much worse I fear. What horrible things did the Palestinians do to the Jews before they started immigrating to Mandate Palestine against the will of the people of Palestine?

In 1900, there were 10,000 Jews in Mandate Palestine and hundreds of thousand Arab-Palestinians. By the time WWII rolled around, the place was 2/3 Arab and 1/3 Jewish. The UN partition was horrendously unfair by any objective analysis -- Jews owned 6% of land with 33% of population and got 50% in the partition with the most feritle land sections and southern port access to boot -- and 90%+ of them were not even living there just a few decades prior! The US engaged in coercive lobbying on UN countries to attain the vote for Israel. At this point, BOTH sides wanted the other out and engaged in terrorism and massacres to try to achieve this. Both sides were "horrible." You say the Palestinians "brought it upon themselves" but would you have meekly surrendered half your homeland -- with more likely to be surrendered later -- to western-backed immigrants after being promised sovereighty by the Brits during the war?



Definitely not, strategy forums are politics blind in my experience. I do see venemous hatred of the Palestinians coming from you, Felix, Bluff, and to a slightly lesser extent M -- who would in fact give water to a thristy Palestinian! -- but venemous hatred from myself? I only express frusteration at those who have views that in my opinion have prevented the United States from stepping up and pressing hard on both sides for a 2-state agreement, reconciliation, and peace.