Israeli forces kill medic, wound 100 protesters in Gaza unrest, Palestinian ministry

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Whatever the truth about the Balfour agreement, the U.S. was not a party to that agreement, so your previous crap about it is not any kind of support for your claim that Israel is any kind of "tip of the spear" for U.S. interests in the region, least of which for any crazy talk about the U.S. wanting to make the Middle East the latest American bread basket.  Maybe if the Ottomans hadn't wanted their country to be carved up like a piece of meat, they shouldn't have thrown in with the likes of Germany.  So, despite your bullshit narrative, we see that the Arab situation in the Middle East is as much a result of Arabs fucking themselves in the ass as it has to do with Britain and "the joos."

I was mistaken that the U.S. was not a party to the Balfour declaration.  Wilson consented to it in late 1917.  I was thinking of the Sykes-Picot agreement.  Regardless, the Balfour declaration was primarily a French and British initiative, with the U.S. only consenting to it following pressure from their allies.  So the Balfour declaration itself is hardly any evidence of a U.S. led initiative in the region as your "tip of the spear" rhetoric seems to imply.

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The direct explicit pointing to the contribution of the U.S can be found in the same link, below:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

Sections of the British press assumed that a Jewish state was intended even before the Declaration was finalized.[xix] In the United States the press began using the terms "Jewish National Home", "Jewish State", "Jewish republic" and "Jewish Commonwealth" interchangeably.[161]

Treaty expert David Hunter Miller, who was at the conference and subsequently compiled a 22 volume compendium of documents, provides a report of the Intelligence Section of the American Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 which recommended that "there be established a separate state in Palestine," and that "it will be the policy of the League of Nations to recognize Palestine as a Jewish state, as soon as it is a Jewish state in fact."[162][163

The U.S played a very crucial role in the creation of Israel.
Later on, the U.S started to become the bigger player in the Middle East, and it "inherited" most properties the British owned. The British lost in WW2, America won; without the U.S, Britain would've been a Nazi colony.

The U.S political scene witnessed a zionist victory -Trump is the final evidece-,the white house is full of Christians who believe truly that the rapture is coming, and for that Israel must stand. So it's a win win: take all the resources of the Arabs, keep the Muslims leashed, and win the company of Jesus too.

Give me a reason for the creation of Israel. I already told you the British goal -and it is documented in the same link above-:

French influence had grown in Palestine and the wider Middle East as protector of the Catholic communities began to grow, just as Russian influence had grown as protector of the Eastern Orthodox in the same regions. This left Britain without a sphere of influence,[4] and thus a need to find or create their own regional "protégés".[6]

Why does America VETO for Israel's sake, and back it up since 1919?
The American camp itself is fractured between secular politicians, money seeking politicians, zionist enthusiasts, so you can combine all of these to justify the American stand with Israel; right now I believe that the zionist wing won.

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I may have more to say on the matter another time, but I just had to point out this blatant misrepresentation of sources on your part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of...man_Empire



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The first misrepresentation is that events in the 14th and 15th century are an apt description of events in the pre-World War I Ottoman Empire.  The second is even more egregious, as one can see from reading further down in the very article that you quote to refute my point.

Antisemitism

Historian Martin Gilbert writes that it was in the 19th century that the position of Jews worsened in Muslim countries. According to Mark Cohen in The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, most scholars conclude that Arab anti-Semitism in the modern world arose in the nineteenth century, against the backdrop of conflicting Jewish and Arab nationalism, and was imported into the Arab world primarily by nationalistically minded Christian Arabs (and only subsequently was it "Islamized").

There was a massacre of Jews in Baghdad in 1828. There was a massacre of Jews in Barfurush in 1867.

In 1865, when the equality of all subjects of the Ottoman Empire was proclaimed, Cevdet Pasha, a high-ranking official observed: "whereas in former times, in the Ottoman State, the communities were ranked, with the Muslims first, then the Greeks, then the Armenians, then the Jews, now all of them were put on the same level. Some Greeks objected to this, saying: 'The government has put us together with the Jews. We were content with the supremacy of Islam.'"

Throughout the 1860s, the Jews of Libya were subjected to what Gilbert calls punitive taxation. In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed in Marrakech and Fezin Morocco. In 1869, 18 Jews were killed in Tunis, and an Arab mob looted Jewish homes and stores, and burned synagogues, on Jerba Island. In 1875, 20 Jews were killed by a mob in Demnat, Morocco; elsewhere in Morocco, Jews were attacked and killed in the streets in broad daylight. In 1891, the leading Muslims in Jerusalem asked the Ottoman authorities in Constantinople to prohibit the entry of Jews arriving from Russia. In 1897, synagogues were ransacked and Jews were murdered in Tripolitania.

Benny Morris writes that one symbol of Jewish degradation was the phenomenon of stone-throwing at Jews by Muslim children. Morris quotes a 19th-century traveler:

"I have seen a little fellow of six years old, with a troop of fat toddlers of only three and four, teaching [them] to throw stones at a Jew, and one little urchin would, with the greatest coolness, waddle up to the man and literally spit upon his Jewish gaberdine. To all this the Jew is obliged to submit; it would be more than his life was worth to offer to strike a Mahommedan."

The overwhelming majority of the Ottoman Jews lived in the European-provinces of the Empire. As the empire lost control over its European provinces in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these Jewish communities found themselves under Christian rule. The Bosnian Jews for example came under Austro-Hungarian rule after the occupation of the region in 1878, the independence of Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia further lowered the number of Jews within the borders of the Ottoman Empire.

Wikipedia || History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman empire started to reject Islam and turn to a model copy-pasted from the west -just like WW2 Japanese empire-, it didn't just kill Jews, it killed everybody. Why do you think the Arabs revolted against the Turks?

The genocide against the Armenian people was also an example for the insanity the Ottomans reached at their end.
Point is: Jews weren't targeted for their religion. Everybody was targeted.