should america support Israel?

[little_monkey]

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You can thank your Palestinian friends for the blood being spilled. Had Palestinians agree to the UN resolution in 1948, there would be two peaceful states, living side by side, with most likely many intermarrying. Instead, the Palestinians declared war, and we are where we are.

Sure, anyone can have peace if they only peaceably accommodated the demands of any robbers. Perhaps their children could have married the children of the robber.

The point is UN had no right to pass any resolution without the consent of the Palestinians. In fact, the Palestinians should have been the only one to even have any right to suggest such a resolution, and possess and absolute veto over it.

A little history is needed here. Before the 1948 UN resolution, there were constant fightings between the two groups. The whole region was under British rule after WW1. But at the end of WW2, the UK was banckrupted and could no longer offer the security in Palestine. So the British asked the UN to come up for a solution. Before the British rule, the region was under the Ottoman empire. The Turks ruled over it for centuries. Palestine was never ever a state, the name applied to that region since the Roman empire. So the Palestinians never had that right as you are suggesting. There was never a Palestinian state and no people were called Palestinian - and the word "Palestinian" came into circulation after 1948.

BTW, there were no robbery. The Jews who immigrated to Palestine BOUGHT the land from Palestinians who were eager to sell.