Billo_Really, toastman,
et al,
This is a common misconception; and a crutch. It is used by the Hostile Arab Palestinian and pro-Palestinian Movements to justify and substantiate their continued hostilities and criminal activities against the decisions made nearly a century ago, to protect the culture and people of the Jewish Nation, long under persecution and diaspora.
No they're not blamed for all the problems of the country
They're blamed for 100% of any problem regarding Israeli/Palestinian issues.
(COMMENT)
The consequences we see unfolding today, whether we look at the establishment of a Jewish National Home, or the particular situation revolving around the West Bank and Gaza Strip are not
(as our friend Billo_Really would have us believe) totally to be laid at the feet of the Jewish People
(or the greater Israeli community).
While it can be said that the Jewish made have been the spark behind the idea of rallying the Jewish People and returning them to the Middle East, the concept fuel would have been more the benevolent action of Sultan Bayezid II (1447 - 1512) and maybe even to a time of his predecessor Sultan Fatih Mehmed (1429 - 1481). For it was the Sultan, the sovereign of the Empire
(including Palestine) that issue the first invitations to the Jewish People to return
("Listen sons of the Hebrew who live in my country...May all of you who desire come to Constantinople and may the rest of your people find here a shelter."). It was the Sultan, that dispatch Kemal Reis (1451-1511), Grand Ottoman Navy, and Commander of the Mediterranean Turkish Fleet, to rescue both Muslims and Jews
(people of the Semitic-language) (1490-1492) escaping persecution throughout Europe during the Spanish and Goa Inquisitions by Christians. Admiral Reis, under Imperial Orders, returned them to the provinces of the Ottoman Empire which welcomed them. However, the Sultan did not approve of a separate Jewish National Home in Palestine
(the Sultan wanted integration not separation). This was made plain in the meeting between Sultan Abdulhamid II (1840-1918) and Theodor Herzl; even when Herzl offered £150M pounds sterling in gold in 1901
(the equiv of £1.1T today). This became one of the reasons that Jewish gradually shifted their support away from the Ottoman Empire in favor of the British.
The Allied Powers noted that during the Middle East Pogrom by Arabs (1840s-1907 specifically targeting Jews), the Jewish culture and communities paid a heavy price; mostly over religious differences. By the time WWI broke-out, the Jewish People had developed a rapport with the Allied Powers such that the sympathy expressed in the Balfour Declaration and San Remo Convention began to materialize. However, the sentiments expressed as causes in the Middle East Pogrom by Arabs continued to grow.
Then came the holocaust and WWII, and the historical post-War decision of November 1947.
----> Can anyone lay blame "for 100% of any problem regarding Israeli/Palestinian issues,"
(Billo_Really) at the feet of the Jews and Israel? There are so many factors, and so many influences, to this dynamic "issue"
(if that is what you want to call it), that only a fool would suggest it. Certainly the Hostile Arabs of the League, as well as those of Palestine, made vast contributions to the scope and nature of hostilities.
No one has clean hands
(including Israel); but, least of all is the ----> Arab.
Most Respectfully,
R