Gene363 wrote:It was.
Ahmadinejad says there was no Holocaust and there are no gays in Iran, great source. There have always been Jews in the place formally called Palestine. Ahmadinejad also forgets that the Ottoman empire was on the losing side of WWI after which the state of Palestine, including both Arab and Jewish people, was set up by the League of Nations. The Palestinians chose to suffer because they insist on the elimination of the Jewish people.
I don't know why the Arab world is upset about the Jews in Israel anyway. They are doing the same thing in Europe. The Bosnian people tried to do some ethnic cleansing and look what happened to them. NATO, aka, the US actions saved the islamic people from being wiped out, you would think they would be more thankful to the west.
Ahmadinejad might not be the most beloved of sources but you are making his same argument about how Europe dumped it's problem on Palestine. I prefer the more romantic narrative that Europe saw fit after World War 2 to right the wrongs inflicted on the Jewish diaspora by the Romans 1800 years prior and reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
I guess either way it is possible to understand how the Palestinians got a little pissed!
Since we are complicit in the European scheme after WW2 and complicit with the current Israel/Palestine situation, perhaps we should do our part by displacing all the Palestinians to Michigan and create a homeland for them too!
Of course now the Michiganites will want their own homeland.....and so and so on.
(By the way, the ethnic cleasing in Bosnia has been almost 100% successful.)