Honourable Sir,
I am fully aware of start of Zionism and the Austro-Hungarian Journalist Theodore Herzl book ‘the Jewish State’ as mentioned in my post #64; where in it was proposed that East European Jews should migrate to Palestine which was then under the Ottoman control. Despite a steady migration of Ashkenazi Jews following the start of Zionist movement, total population of Jews in Palestine in 1914 was no more than 80 to 85,000 among 700,000 Palestinian Arabs.
League of Nations mandate following the Turkish defeat placed Palestine lands had been placed under British Control. Large scale migration of Ashkenazi Jews started following the rise of Nazi parties in Germany & Italy. It estimated that 600,000 arrived in 1930 alone. 1936-1939 Arab Revolt and the Jewish Resistance movement of 1944-9147 which you have mentioned was the direct consequence of this mass migration. Establishment of the Jewish State was thru Balfour declaration of Nov 2, 1917. Had the Arab not sided with the Allied Powers to kick Turks out of Bilad- esh – Sham; there would be no Israel today.
It is true that Israel has invaded Lebanon in 1978, 1985, & 2006, but it is incorrect that all the wars were started by Israel.
For the record:
On 29th Nov 1947, UN General Assembly adopted a resolution for the partition of Palestine between independent Jewish & Arab States and the city of Jerusalem which was rejected by the Arab League.
British Mandate was to end on 14th May 1948 and complete withdrawal of British forces by August 1, 1948. David Ben Gurian declared creation of Isreal on May 14, 1948. Even though King Abdullah did not initially want to interfere, he agreed to join the Arab forces invasion of Israeli state. Arab Armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq & Jordan invaded Israel on May 15, 1948.
Following the bankruptcy of Egypt under Ismael Pasha, British had purchased Egyptian shares of the Suez Canal for £4-million (about £100-million in today’s money). In 1888 Suez Canal had been declared as a ‘Neutral Zone’ under British protection. Convention came into force with the agreement of the Ottomans with France & Britain as the main guarantors. 1952 Coup which changed Egypt into a Republic and brought Gamal Abdul Nasser power changed the political scenario of the region. France, Britain and Israel entered into an alliance with France supplying large quantities of weapons to the Israel army.
On July 26, 1956 Nasser nationalised Suez Canal and ordered Egyptian forces to occupy the Canal Zone. 1956 war was direct result of Nasser’s annexation of the Suez Canal. Main opponents were Britain & France. Israel was only a side show and its forces retreated to 1948 borders at the end of the war.
I clearly remember all events leading to 1967 war. There were a small number of UN observers following the armistice of 1956. In May 1967 Nasser ordered UN troops out of the region and ordered concentration of the Egyptian forces in the Sinai. War started when Egyptian forced a naval blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba which preventing ships from going to the Israel port of Eilath. This resulted in the pre-emptive air strike by Israel and start of the 6-day war. Result was wholly one sided and Israel refused to give up conquered Arab territory. Yom Kippur war of 1973 was again started by Anwar Sadaat to recover Sinai from Israel occupation.
I repeat that I am anti-Zionist and consider creation of a Jewish State at the expense of Palestinian Arabs as unjust. I also consider Israeli reprisals against the Hamas out of proportion. But I would not twist the facts to blame Israel for all the wars.
All of the above is mere history; main topic here is how to delete Israel. I would say that State of Israel is a ‘Fait accompali’; you wouldn’t be able to remove it from the face of the Earth short of dropping a few megatons of nuclear bombs. As a human being I couldn’t even contemplate such an act, let alone do it.
Ideal solution is going back to 1948 borders. Should that be impossible, then coming to an agreement in a Land for Peace type deal? You can call me an Israeli or CIA agent if you like, but I find it unacceptable to have 300 people killed for the pleasure of throwing a few rockets on Israeli settlers. This needless loss of life must stop.
My points were simply these:
1. There wasn't any organised militancy against settlers Jews - only sporadic attacks. In the 1936 Arab revolution, the main targets were British.
2. This is debatable whether there could be an Israel had the Arabs not allied with the British. Alternative history can have many alternative scenarios.
3. As you have said, Israel pre-empted in 1967. She was the first to attack the opponents.
4. During the 1956 war, Israel had captured all the Sinai peninsula, it was only after severe pressure from President Roosevelt that they gave it back to Egypt. They were very resentful of that. In the whole history of Israel, other than Roosevelt and JFK, no other president has dared to take an Anti-Israeli position.
5. Israel is not a small, peace-loving nation. It has sinister designs about the whole region. On the eve of Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 an article was published in World Zionist Organizations' periodical Kivunim. It was titled, 'A strategy for Israel in the 1980s'. It was written by a former senior foreign ministry official of Israel - Oded Yinon. I am just copying from an article some of the details:
[The Yinon plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, which the Biden Plan also calls for, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation… This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme.
For me the best solution will be to gather all the Israelis and Palestinians (resident + In exile) and on the basis of their demographic strength, give the relevant percentage of land - with Jerusalem being a neutral area protected by International forces from all three faiths.