[casuist]

BECAUSE IT’S YOUR HISTORY TOO, NUMBNUTS.

The all-caps are a nice touch I must say. Most emphatic.

Yes, and I accept that European history is my own history, only my history would be the history of European Jewry, a long and rich history of being hated and despised by the British.

[agere_contra]

After Britain spent its blood and treasure destroying the Ottoman Empire and freeing Jerusalem from the Muslims, it set aside certain captured lands (all present-day Israel and Jordan) to be a Jewish homeland.

This great gift was later attenuated and hobbled by Foreign Office and international antipathies, and shrunken also by the seething hostility of the Arabs.

But the fact remains: Israel today only exists because of the actions of the British. We did all that despite - according to you - hating and despising European Jewry.

You're welcome.

[Vanders9]

That's a long and rich history of being hated and despised by the British, French, Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgians, Dutch (probably not so much), Swiss, Danes and Poles. There's no reason to just pick on one part of Christendom.

However, more recently (in the 1930's) Britain was the only nation to offer refuge to German Jews fleeing the Nazis. Not even the US did that.