David in Gwent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:29 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:18 pm
David in Gwent wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:55 pm
The world's your oyster, Torq, go for it.
Okay. I'll go back to your first point.
By the time we got to 1900, the population of "Palestine" was approx. 90% Muslim and the bulk of the rest Christian (in fact, Christians outnumbered Jews at least as far back as the 1500s). At least half the world's Jews lived in Russia.
The Brits (well, the English) expelled all their Jews in the 13th C. The Russians persecuted the Jews throughout the period of the Pogroms. The Krauts followed on from the Russians.
So when some Jewish terrorists (Brit's term for them, not mine for the masses of illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine**: maybe read up on Aliyah Bet) declared the State of Israel in 1948, it's little surprise to see it given immediate recognition by.......... Russia and Britain (plus the Brit's stooges, the Yanks).
The reality is the overwhelming blame for the clusterf**k that is the Middle East lies with the Brits with some marginal early French input and a shedload of Yank input (mostly post WW2).
**Ironic that the Brits are now "trying to stop the boats" eh?
Two questions for you to start with.
1. Of what relevance is the exit of the Jews from the UK in 1200 (introduced by the Normans) when 200,000 came back in the 19th century
2. Are you denying that the area is the ancestral homeland of the Jews?
I'll answer your questions although you deny me the same courtesy.
1) I note your watering down to "exit" for what was as clear a case of ethnic cleansing as you could find in history. It's relevant because it demonstrates just how far back the English/Brits wanted Jewish money but not what they considered the problem of having the Jews on their own doorstep. In echoes of the Tory's get rid of unwanted immigrants to Rwanda, your Government tried to dump them in next door Uganda FFS. It's relevant because Britain's recognition of Israel was just self interested expediency. Remember that old maxim: "The English have no morals. Only interests."
2) Errrr, yes. I thought that was clear. With a Jewish population in "Palestine" of something like 1% in 1900, the vast majority of Jews in
Israel have no meaningful connection with the area. As per my comment on giving me St Lucia, the Jews are a religious group and not a racial one and even less so a national one.
Now, I've answered your questions so maybe you will spare me more evasion and answer mine? You don't see the hypocrisy in your long running board battles over your stance to prevent illegal immigration to the UK because, amongst other things, you think it displaces and waters down culture........... whilst at the same time supporting the creation of the state of Israel with the single, biggest illegal immigration and subsequent indigenous displacement in modern history?
Now, I'm going to be very clear because I'm sure you or someone is going to post the accusation. Am I anti-Jewish? Well, yes, but no more so than I am anti any other god bothering nonsense and considerably less so than I am anti-Catholic. Basically, I think god botherers have the absolute right to live anywhere peaceably as long as their ridiculous beliefs don't unduly impinge upon the rest of us. Am I anti-Israel? 100%. I do not acknowledge the right for an illegal state to exist any more than I acknowledge Russia's ownership of the Crimea, Germany's ownership of the Sudentenland (or any other "Liebensraum").
I return to the point: the Brits' centuries of self interest and duplicity in the region (reaching back to the Crusades) is almost entirely responsible for the sh*tfest the place is today. You lot f**ked all this up.