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Only if you consider George Washington and the other founding fathers of the US terrorists.The Jews had been settling in what would become Israel since the middle of the 19th century at the invitation of the Ottoman Turks. The Brits played their own game, as you have pointed out, first inviting the Jews to move there and then siding with the Arabs against them until finally the Jews drove the Brits out and established their own nation.Hardly an invasion. The Jews came at the invitation of the government, the Ottoman Turks.The Arabs should have left Israel alone.European Jews invade Palestine and you blame Arabs?The Arabs should have left Israel alone.Jews came to Palestine at the invitation of George V.Hardly an invasion. The Jews came at the invitation of the government, the Ottoman Turks
So you're saying the Jews of Israel turned on their benefactors by resorting to terrorism?The Jews had been settling in what would become Israel since the middle of the 19th century at the invitation of the Ottoman Turks. The Brits played their own game, as you have pointed out, first inviting the Jews to move there and then siding with the Arabs against them until finally the Jews drove the Brits out and established their own nation.
Plan Dalet and The Nakba - 1948
"In the last year of the British Mandate, the ratio of British officers dead to Jewish terrorists killed was 4 to 1 - a very high ratio even in today's standards.
"No wonder Britain wanted out of Palestine.
"The Zionist plan to transfer Palestinians out of their land was headed by no lesser character than David Ben-Gurion himself.
He plotted these schemes in his own home aided by a small ad hoc group of people referred to as The Consultancy.
"Its aim was to plot and carry out the disposession of the Palestinian people.
As early as February 1947, when the British Cabinet voted to pull out of Mandatory Palestine, the Zionist leadership knew that the road ahead was clear for their aims to be achieved.
"The Consultancy first met (according to Ben-Gurion's diary) on 18 June 1947 and continued to meet regularly during the months leading to October 1947 when it transpired that the UN will now issue its Resolution 181 to partition the land of Palestine."
Why do you think the UN violated its own Charter in 1947 by not calling for free elections in Palestine?
Calling for elections would have been a foolish thing to do since the UN took no action on Partition until the British announce they were leaving and once the British left the Jews were going to declare statehood regardless of what the UN or the Arab nations did. The Arabs had insisted the Jews live under total Muslim domination and that was not acceptable so war was inevitable whatever the UN diplomats did.
Interestingly, the Arabs in question were not the Arabs who lived in the Mandate but the Arab nations who spoke for them and these Arab nations had no intention of creating a Palestinian state if they defeated the Jews but of capturing the land for themselves, as Jordan did. So in Israel's War of Independence the Jews were the indigenous people who lived on the land and the Arabs (nations) were the foreign colonial powers.