The Moral Conundrum Over Palestine

Many in the Western world find themselves in a moral conundrum regarding Israel and the Palestinians.Living in an age that worships “victimhood”the politically correct West is in a difficult quandary.On the one hand,guilt over the Holocaust was the major force behind the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, at least according to common perceptions.On the other hand, Western guilt,already burdened by the dislocation and exploitation caused by Colonialism,has manifested itself in sympathy for the Palestinians,and the still unsettled Palestinian refugees in Gaza,Lebanon,and elsewhere in the Middle East.Except that Israel,unlike Britain and France,is not,and never was a colonial power.The Palestinian refugee problem can be traced to the decisions made by the Arab leadership in Palestine in 1947-1948,and the encouragement they received from the surrounding Arab states,whose territorial ambitions as much as their desire to possess the relative wealth built by the Jewish community in Palestine,motivated their policies.On November 29,1947 the U.N.voted on partition for Palestine(UN Resolution 181).By a majority of 33 votes to 13,it decided to create a Jewish and Arab state in Palestine.The Jews,eager to absorb hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors suffering in Displaced Persons Camps throughout Germany and Cyprus,welcomed the partition,albeit,as a shrunken Jewish Homeland.The 1917 Balfour Declaration issued by Great Britain sought to create a homeland for the Jews in their ancestral home of Palestine.Approximately 77% of the land promised to the Jews in the Balfour Declaration was however sheared off to create the Emirate of Trans-Jordan under British guidance in 1922, and no Jews have been allowed to live there since...
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