Really we should've just turned a chunk of Belarus into Israel and did the ethnic cleansing there. No reason the Palestinians should suffer for Europe's crimes.
@BlueVeins It's a little late for that. However, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was an ally of Hitler and offered to carry out his own Holocaust in Palestine, so it's not like they weren't involved at all. And what makes you think the people of Belarus wouldn't have resisted? They hated Jews even more than the Arabs did, at least going by how Jews were treated in the Arab world compared to Eastern Europe.
A better question is why there wasn't a call for Palestinian independence when Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt had Gaza. Makes you wonder if the conflict isn't just about land.
@LeopoldBloom I'm mostly being tongue-in-cheek. Obviously, ethnic cleansing is bad no matter who you do it to, and it sucks that the same European powers committing genocide 80 years ago get to export the violence elsewhere and act like the good guys instead of actually fixing their prejudicial mindsets.
A better question is why there wasn't a call for Palestinian independence when Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt had Gaza.
What a strange thing to say. Jordan was condemned by other Arab nations for its annexation even though it Palestinians citizenship and let them stay where they were, and a Palestinian still assassinated their head of state. Egypt, for its part, wrenched Gaza off of Israel, and only hung onto it relatively well by turning it into a quasi-self governed state. They painted themselves as liberators, and next to their old captors, it worked. The fact that both sides of the whole Israel/Palestine conflict are kinda racist is easily provable, which really makes the use of these examples all the more baffling.
