Solomon2
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You mean the reason why Israel is specially abused is because the Holocaust whetted the appetites of people who want to see Jews dead and express their feeling by wishing that Hitler "finished the job."Twaddle. You dodged the point that Holocaust (and other) guilt drummed into people from birth and throughout their lives is the primary reason Israel gets special treatment.
Keep reading your history. History is different from ideology in that it has the best possible factual basis to it. Pakistani history students, according to eminent historian Bernarnd Lewis (he calls them his "grandchildren" in his memoirs, since their profs were his students) think history is something you invent to order and find facts to support here and there, as needed; contradictory or opposing facts get completely ignored.More twaddle. Jews were a miniscule minority in Palestine, after the Roman conquest and over the centuries. They came back by stealth, some buying property it is true, but the vast majority were shipped in when it was clear the Western powers would back their clandestine plan to take over Palestine.
"97%" comes from where? Under the Ottomans the peoples of the middle east were Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs, Kurds, Jews, Armenians, Assyrians, Samaritans, etc....on what basis the Balfour Declaration can be justified to create a Jewish state in a region when 97% of the resident population is not Jewish.
Even before WWI, peaceful resettlement by simple purchase had begun - if you think there's something wrong with that, I suppose you also want to evict Hezbollah's Shia supporters from much of Lebanon.
The ultimate basis of the Balfour Declaration, the Treaty of Sevres, and the British Mandate is that Palestine was the Jews' home 2000 years before and that the Jews deserved to return to it once more, as they never seemed to fit in as equals in the Diaspora. The Ottoman Caliph agreed to it, probably for two reasons: one, he didn't want to simply "give" the middle east over to purely Arab domination as that would be bad for Turkey, and tow, because he knew from his own experience that Arabs couldn't be trusted to tolerate Jews in their midst without seeking to molest them.
(Go ahead and bring back the Caliphate - the Jews are the Caliphs' last loyal subjects!)