Oh, shit.
Let's dissect this baby.
To begin, this isn't a Jewish issue but rather an issue of state, the nation of Israel. It's secular. Attempting to argue that we're out to "blame the Jews" presupposes that Jews should be, for whatever reason, immune to criticism. Are they angelic, above the law, a priviledged group of oppressed peoples living in a "savage" region? Come now. That's all implied at the outset of your post, and it's idiotic. Religious affiliation has nothing to do with the issue at hand: illegal occupation of the Palestinians by the secular state of Israel. Again, this has nothing to do with Jews. But really, even if it did, what's wrong with "blaming the Jews" if they're at fault?
I'm not sure what your history 12 teacher told you, but your account of the creation of the state of Israel is rather, well, wrong. Great Britain held, due to racist and imperialist reasons, a mandate, through the League of Nations, over the nation of Palestine. It was a nation. Great Britain, not terribly keen on the idea of a "Jewish" Israel and more interested in bilateral negotiations with the Palestinians, became the victim of Zionist terrorist attacks. Naturally, they fled, leaving the Arabs to fend for themselves, with a huge Jewish population (thanks to the Balfour Declaration). The Zionists opposed Arabs in Israel primarily because they wanted a "Jewish" state and democracy would, due to the higher Arabic population, certainly not serve their interests. Obviously the rest of history is self-evident (with back-and-forth conflicts until the penultimate Six Day War). The point is that Zionist plans for the state of Israel predate WWII and their machinations circumvented Western authority. You can't blame Great Britain - they wanted a democratic Palestine with a majority Arabic population. The Zionists did not.
Your glorious account of the Jews fighting "barely-armed" against presumably unwarranted attacks by the "revolting" Palestinians is pure historical revisionism - or perhaps simple willful ignorance. The Palestinians happily accepted Jews being REJECTED by Western Europe. Their "revolt" was against a Zionist nationalist/terrorist movement that aimed to dissolve the Palestinian state, displace the majority of Arabs, and establish a Jewish state. The Zionists were the aggressors in this instance, and the Palestinians defendants of their internationally recognized state of two thousand (!) years. You cannot present history in any other way. The Zionist claim to Israel was false and any military action taken to steal Palestinian land was illegal.
Please.
That's an unsupportable claim since that's exactly what happened. How do you explain the violent, illegal creation of Israel, the violent expulsion of Great Britain, and the equally horrific displacement of the Palestinian people if not as a concerted effort to "take over the land"?
Again, this is a very weak argument. Land is not an eternally owned commodity - it's a legally prescribed region representing a set doctrine of laws and systems. Jews resided in Israel, which was never during their tenure a legally recognized state, several millenia ago. Jews also resided in practically the entirety of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other regions in North Africa/the Middle East, given their nomadic status. Do they have land claims in Iraq? The Palestinian people, however, had an internationally, legally recognized state with a historical and cultural claim to its land. I like to think that we've progressed enough not to define legal states based around religious claims - those are ideals of a bygone, Crusade-era... Kingdom of Israel, home of Hebrews? No dice.
That's a blatant lie. Again, you're trying to use irrelevant historical pretense to justify something that's about the present moment. After Israel had finished its main illegal expansionism into Arabic territories (ie. Six Day War), clearly defined, internationally agreed upon, although unfairly imposed upon Palestine, national borders were set by the UN (I believe in '65?). To the suprise of few, Israel has not recognized these borders and continued to expand its illegal occupation (into Gaza, the Golan Heights, etc.).
And to think, all of this has yet to take into account the human rights violations taken against the Palestinians and the myriad of illegal invasions of border nations by Israel since '48 (most notably: Lebanon has been invaded 5 times, resulting in the creation and radicalization of Hezbollah).
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