On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:45:48 -0500, Califbill
wrote:


By the time Truman / US government recognized Israel, was defacto
recognized by Europe. I have hint it was just a recognition of what was in
place.

The anti semites in Europe saw it as doing what they wanted to do when
the nazis were coming into power, get rid of the jews.
Nobody in Europe believed the arabs had any rights at all. They had
been colonizing Africa for centuries and this was just another colony
in their mind. The only ones who objected were the Brits because
Palestine was their colony. They were losing their other colonies and
this one was not really that important economically so they let it go.

I still think the right thing would have been to take land from the
Germans and let the jews set up their state there. Unfortunately, the
war may not have actually ended if we did that. In that regard, we may
have defeated Hitler but we did not defeat his core policy. None of
the nazis had to give back the stuff they stole from the jews. That
was true of the Swiss too. The restitution that should have paid by
the Germans fell on the Palestinians.