My points were simply these:
1. There
wasn't any organised militancy against settlers Jews - only sporadic attacks. In the 1936 Arab revolution, the main targets were British.
2. This is debatable whether there could be an Israel had the Arabs not allied with the British.
Alternative history can have many alternative scenarios.
3. As you have said,
Israel pre-empted in 1967. She was the first to attack the opponents.
4. During the 1956 war, Israel had captured all the Sinai peninsula, it was only after
severe pressure from President Roosevelt that they gave it back to Egypt. They were very resentful of that. In the whole history of Israel, other than Roosevelt and JFK, no other president has dared to take an Anti-Israeli position.
5. Israel is not a small, peace-loving nation. It has sinister designs about the whole region. On the eve of Israeli invasion of Lebanon in
1982 an article was published in
World Zionist Organizations' periodical
Kivunim. It was titled, '
A strategy for Israel in the 1980s'. It was written by a former senior foreign ministry official of Israel -
Oded Yinon. I am just copying from an article some of the details:
[The Yinon plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that
Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed
Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a
Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The
first step towards establishing this was a
war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
The
Atlantic, in 2008, and the
U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both
published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for
a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of
Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for
dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from
Egypt and then spilling over into
Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the
ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation… This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme.
For me the best solution will be to gather all the Israelis and Palestinians (resident + In exile) and on the basis of their demographic strength, give the relevant percentage of land - with Jerusalem being a neutral area protected by International forces from all three faiths.
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