The Incredible Sadness

It’s really important to remember that there is a very long narrative on each side of this chasm between Arabs and Israelis and in particular Palestinian Arabs.

Jews suffered horribly under the Germans and no one, but no one came to their rescue. Got that? No one. Not the Canadians, not the British and especially not the Americans.

American investment in Germany increased by about 50% between 1929, when Hitler rose up out of the pit, and 1941, when the U.S. very reluctantly entered the war.

Prior to that, even though Canadians and Americans knew very well that Hitler was incarcerating Jews in concentration camps, there were severe restrictions on the entry of desperate Jews to both countries.

Take a look at Irving Abella’s book about Canadian policy…it’s called “None is Too Many” That was the Canadian approach of our government to admitting homeless, stateless Jews facing destruction.

Likewise the Americans admitted hardly a single Jewish refugee and certainly none that didn’t have great wealth.

Jump forward then, to 1947, when the United Nations decided to empower the Jewish Agency in Palestine to establish a Jewish Homeland. The U.N. gave the Agency a licence to kill in what amounted to a holy war for survival against the Palestinian Arabs.

Fifteen old white guys from western Europe and North America divided up Palestine into 3 parts…a Homeland for Jews, and a supposed state for the Palestinians. They decreed that Jerusalem would be an international city under an international Council…but it was all just empty words.

Then they washed their hands of the place and said may the strongest prevail.
The only word of warning came from the American President, Harry Truman, on March 25, 1948.

Here’s the core of what Truman had to say-

“The United Kingdom has announced its firm intention to abandon its mandate in Palestine on May 15. Unless emergency action is taken, there will be no public authority in Palestine on that date capable of preserving law and order. Violence and bloodshed will descend upon the Holy Land. Large-scale fighting among the people of that country will be the inevitable result. Such fighting would infect the entire Middle East and could lead to consequences of the gravest sort involving the peace of this nation and the world”

Today, we can see just how right Truman was. We see the millions of refugees and the helpless, hopeless, stateless Palestinian victims…not of Israel, but of the world community, which set them up for the big fall.

But no one listened then and today we have only pathetic excuses for leaders, who haven’t the slightest idea what it’s all about.