The Palestinian ethnic cleansing continues…

While most people don’t remember that the continued Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in 1917 with a public statement from the British government, in the midst of World War I supporting the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then under the Ottoman rule and that only included a small minority Jewish population. 

Known as the Balfour declaration, this statement from the UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour was addressed to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, with input from Zionist Jews but without any representation from the local population in Palestine. 

This declaration would have many long-lasting consequences. It greatly increased popular support for Zionism within Jewish communities worldwide, and became a core component of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founding document of Mandatory Palestine, which later became Israel and the Palestinian territories. 

As a result, it is considered a principal cause of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Brits, by trying to break the Ottoman Empire screwed up big time and created this monster that continues to be the world's most intractable conflict. 

The Arab Palestinians got shafted in that deal and for the past several decades, Israel seems intent on eradicating them from what’s left of Palestine. The former abused, under Nazi Germany, has become the abuser and the United States, France, the UK and a few others are supporting the colonialist power that Israel represents.

Obviously, Arabs and Muslims are not well liked and it’s easy to beat on them and cheer for Israel. It’s pretty clear to most enlightened folks however, that the Jewish State is intent on driving away or exterminating all Arabs and, little by little, annex their remaining territories. 

It is as disgusting as it is unjust, and when I watched the New York World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001, my first reaction was: “Payback for the unconditional US support of Israel.”