Why do people blame Israels for Palestine, etc. when reality is had the British not stolen Palestinine lands & given it away there'd never be a issue?

[SakuraBlossoms87]

Israelis were a homeless people given a piece of land. Anyone would take it and those of you who say you'd not are liars. Nobody wants to be isolated, discriminated, homeless, etc.

[NamerOfStars]

The British didn't steal Palestinian lands, they stole Ottoman lands, after their empire collapsed. More to the point, the British (well, the English, actually, but that's another issue) had a deal with the proto-Palestinians, that they BROKE to give the land to Israel. The Israeli government made promises to the Palestinian people; many were not kept.

Nor were the Israelis homeless; they didn't simply pop into existence after the war. They came from the countries they'd lived in beforehand, and which still had room for them- a lot MORE room, now that so many people were dead.

Given that many of those countries had either tried to slaughter them all or been willing to hand them over to those who did, it's not hard to understand why they'd want to leave, but they were no more "homeless" than the Tutsis, the Northern Irish Catholics, or basically everyone in Yugoslavia.

[jshm2]

You're ignorant.

There were no "Israelis" prior to 1945. The British were pretty much doing to the Palestinians what the now Israeli's are. The British dumped more immigrant Jews into the land, and washed their hands of it. They didn't want more terrorist Jews in Britain.

The terrorist settlers then pushed the Palestinians off, and the rest is history. Israel could have been less like the British. But they just wanted all of it. Hence are worse than the British.

There will eventually need to be reparations for what the British have done, and let Israel do.

[Anonymous]

I think it's because Israel still has Palestinians under military occupation. I'm not excusing Hamas's actions by any means but when people are caught in these types of situations where they can't move freely in their own land it leads to fringe groups like Hamas getting more powerful and able to recruit more young minds.

[Anonymous]

Maybe because they've killed thousands of Palestinians since 1948, stole their houses, depriving them of basic human rights?

There’s no excuse for this.

[Drewtate]

The British did not steal it. They won it off the Ottoman empire as the spoils of war during ww2. The United Nations gave the Jews and the Arabs in the area the right to self governance, there has never in history been a Palestinian nation. The neighbouring Muslims and those in Palestine area could not accept a non Muslim infidel people governing themselves in land they believed was there and they attempted to wipe them out in a war of genocide but lost and the price was the Palestinians forfeited their land. If you look at most Muslim countries non-muslims are oppressed.

[Jennz6]

I’m not really sure