Israel/Palestine

After the war, many Jews who had temporarily escaped to other countries tried to return to their homes only to find that landlords would not rent to them or their own homes had been destroyed or taken over. I've read that the British government just wanted this problem to go away. The easy way out was to hand Palestinian land to the Zionists pressuring the British government, which is what they did with little to no consideration for the conflicts they were creating for the native Palestinians living on that land. Israel wasted no time after the UN approved their state, sending an army and bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes and force them off the land (the Nabka). Many descendants of these Palestinians are today living in camps in the West Bank because Israel has limited their ability to make a living.

So long as Israel is determined to own all Palestinian land, there will never be peace. As we saw with our own Native Americans, many tribes were murdered out of existence and others barely survived the depredations of a people who wanted their land even to the point of murdering them. And, yes, Naive Americans fought back just as Palestinians have done. They were simply defending the land they and their ancestors had lived on for thousands of years. I have no solution for this conflict, but ignoring the rights of the natives and allowing their genocide is not the answer.