Originally posted by toomuchtime
It would have helped if the Arabs living there had had any record of accomplishment in any area of life, but they didn't. While the Jews that the British knew had managed, despite living in a culture that despised them, that passed discriminatory laws against them and had expelled them from every country in Europe at one time or another, to rise to the top in nearly every field of endeavor, in the arts and sciences, in business and finance and even in the governments that despised them and had passed all those discriminatory laws against them, the Arabs the British knew were a backward people with an alien culture.
So naturally the British, who expected to have a strong sphere of influence and brisk commercial relations in the area for many years to come, would prefer to have a modern, prosperous Jewish state with European values and no prospects of having allies in the area other than Britain as its ally and base of operations to an Arab state still stuck in the 12th century and more likely to form strong alliances with other Arab states than with Britain.
However, whatever the reason Israel was created, the fact is that the Arab people in the area were not harmed in any way by the creation of the tiny state of Israel, but by the fallout from the Arab attacks against the state of Israel, just as the Palestinians today are not harmed in any way by the existence of the state of Israel but by the fallout from their attacks on Israel.