Since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967
What country was the West Bank?
You mean before 1967? It was part of what's now termed Palestinian Territory. It was occupied by Jordan and had been since 1948, Israel took over occupancy in 1967. The British administered it since 1917 after pushing out the Ottomans. Then agreed that they'd end that mandated administration, carve the place up and give half to a bunch of militant Zionist terrorists.
The partitioning of Palestine that took place to create Israel in 1947 was fraught with problems, not least of which was the problem that a Jewish nation state was about to be created by outsiders (the former colonial powers) that would include huge numbers of non-Jews. There was no election, no democracy, people would and were simply forced to wake up one day and find they are living in some other country with new laws and so on, a country that emphasized Jewishness.
The region should NEVER have been partitioned, certainly not by the authority of outside powers. There were people already there, living there and had been since before the time of Christ. A single state of Palestine would have been far far better and then every person - be they Jew, Arab, Egyptian, English, African everyone would have their vote in a truly mixed democracy like we enjoy in the US, UK and elsewhere.
But it was not to be, sadly the British had long plotted with an increasingly militant mutation of Zionism, to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and establish Jewish settlements. The Zionists were all in favor of the partitioning in the late 1940s, especially as they were to get > 50% of the territory!
The Arabs/Palestinians wanted nothing to do with this plan, the overnight manufacture of a country that met the needs of the British, Canadians, Americans and so on. Those people ALREADY lived there, scattered all over Palestine and to a huge degree without conflict, there was no Muslim/Jew hatred or politics back then. Jews had live peacefully with Arabs in the region for untold hundreds of years.
Did you know too that huge numbers of European Jews after WW2 did not want to go to Israel? They had lived and had roots in Europe, but the victors of WW2 did not want them, they were eager to use Palestine as a way to handle the huge Jewish refugee problem - who cares if it leads to a few hundred thousand Palestinian peasants being ethnically cleansed...
It's not commonly understood but Israel has chosen for decades, to pursue expansion over security, they chose to sacrifice security in exchange for annexing territory. They had a choice but they wanted expansion more than security. Stealing land, ethnically cleansing people will unsurprisingly make them angry, very angry, I'd be angry and so would you.
The only way they could get away with this huge crime was to lie, to misrepresent reality and with the help of the United States, UK and others that's what they've been doing. They made up stories about Muslims hating Jews, about Arabs being fanatical, primitives who are impossible to live peacefully with and they they blame all the problems on those people, the abuser became the victim and the Western press and media play along and have been for decades.
The fanatical Zionists cry "antisemite" when they are confronted with these facts and that's has been working for decades, that strategy of using antisemitism and the Holocaust as tools to help cover up huge crimes against humanity is despicable, sickening and it has to stop.
Don't listen to me though, listen to a Jew, one who's entire family were wiped out by the Nazis, perhaps he'll help you understand:
Israel today has nothing whatsoever to do with creating a homeland for Jews, helping Jews recover after the Holocaust, it has zero to do with these aims and never did. It was and is a racist and xenophobic project rooted in territorial expansion and Jew supremacy and has brought suffering to Jew and non-Jew alike and people need to wake up and speak out against this latter day clone of the Third Reich.
