[RLK]

What happened was that coincident with, or just after, the Balfour Resolution establishing a zionist state, the attempt was made to grant Arabs minority citizenship status in what was then Palestine. It really pissed the Arabs off. They came to realize the writing was on the wall if further immigration occurred, and they consequently tried to prevent it. According to page 258 of the 1998 Time Almanac there were 678,000 Jews living in the area, and 1,269,000 Arabs. The Arabs didn't want imposition of a Jewish state. This is what they were attempting to prevent in earlier attempts to prevent immigration. Obviously, the Arabs lost out. They haven't forgiven what happened to this day.

[RLK]

I might add, shortly afterward the soon to be israelis took over the area by force of arms, then declared a Jewish state. The United States recognized and supported Israel immediately, leaving nearly 1,300,000 Arabs in the area stammering in helpless rage. That is part of why they fly airplanes into buildings when they can manage it. Additionally, it was an affront to the entire Islamic world, which is one reason why they help support the flying of airplanes into buildings. If I were an Arab, I'd be mad as hell about it and doing the same thing.

We watch movies such as Sophie's Choice and The Diary of Anne Frank, and it's hard not to sympathize with the Jews and want them to have their own country. However, the Arabs don't think they should be the ones who should pay for the injustice of the concentration camps. Neither do Islamics like the high-handedness and the insulting way they are regarded.

I don't have a horse in this race. I am not a Jew. I regard Islam as having a 1,400 year history as an aggressive psychosis. I only call it as I see it.

[anapikoros2]

What happened was that coincident with, or just after, the Balfour Resolution establishing a zionist state, the attempt was made to grant Arabs minority citizenship status in what was then Palestine. It really pissed the Arabs off.

Not at all. The Balfour Declaration (not resolution) had no legal standing. It was nothing more than the British Government declaring that it viewed with favour the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

However in spite of the declaration they did their best to impede it. Within 5 years of the declaration the Britiish had carved off 78% of Palestine as an exclusively Arab country, forbid the settlement of Jews therein and called it Jordan.

After the 1929 Arab riots the British severly restricted Jewish immigration to what was left of Palestine and maintained this restriction till 1948 at the behest of the Arabs.

The various partition plans of what was left of Palestine after the Arabs were give the Jordan component envisioned partition between Arabs and Jews based on each getting the area wherein they were the predominant population. This process eventuated in UN resolution 181 of 1947 which the Arabs rejected.

The Jews accepted 181 and declared independence in May 1948 whereupon 5 Arab armies invaded the very next day. After the war Israel finished up with about 16% of Palestine as it was at the time of the Balfour Declaration.

The Arabs may be pissed because they only got 84% of Palestine but that is no excuse to fly planes into towers.