Originally Posted by FutureEmperor
But I have to say one of the biggest blunders of the 20th century was to give the displaced jews their own country in the middle east, not because of what it is. but because of where it is. They gave a land that is holy to many religions, to people of a certain religion.
I never saw the reason, for example, imagine giving Washington DC back to England and New York city back to the Nedtherlands, simply because history said that these areas once belonged to those countries. Many Americans would be up in arms at this, much of thier national pride is in these two cities, and yet they were taken away without their concent and given to another group of peoples who have no more claim to it than the US.
No western country wanted to give an inch of land to the Isrealis, and so they gave them land that wasn't theirs, and now all we have is bloodshed, if anything The area that is now Isreal should have been made neutral territory guarded by a multicultural defence force so that peoples from all religions and nationalities could visit it in peace. But No once again logic fails.