Had I lived in USA in the 1950s I would have been as shafted just as much as you -
You'll have to turn to Turkish-Americans or Arab-Americans for that opinion.
had I been living in Nazi Germany my light brown skin, black hair and brown eyes along with circumcized male member would, I suspect have got me a first class ticket on a train to Auschwitz along with yourself.
Muslims like the mufti of Jerusalem were Nazi allies. However, as a British subject you would have been considered an enemy alien and expelled to England within a few days after Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, during the so-called "phoney war" period.
However today thank god by and large the Jews have managed to graduate out of this discrimination club but Muslims increasingly find that even with all the protection of law etc they are fast becoming the modern Jews/Negroes of the Western world.
With this difference: Jews were discriminated against because they are Jews. Discrimination against Muslims, where that exists, is more likely due to the fact people are scared of being blown to bits in some act of terrorism. As for me, I interact more with Muslims than Christians every day, but most Americans don't have my experience - not all of it good, and frankly experiences I would rather not have had.
And insofar as your explanation or apology for the revision of history is contrived and despite all semantic gymnastics fails to impress.
This much I agree with.
The simple truth is the world 'Palestine' is unaccetable to many who would want to erase that name so that a community loses it's past.
And this part I don't. It is absolutely certain that in the 1920s when the British Mandate was established there was no separate Palestinian Arab
identity, if only because Palestinian Arabs wrote to the League of Nations to say so. Remember, during the post-WWI period three empires were broken up and their component nationalities separated into nation-states and there was nothing unusual about nationalities losing patches of territory here and there so they could pick up sovereign status elsewhere.
The creation of the Mandate was thus not particularly unusual - save that the Arabs of Palestine, like the Germans of the Czechezslovakia, the Serbs of Kosovo, etc. - were not compelled to migrate by force. These areas where nationalities of differing temper remained in close proximity have become flashpoints in subsequent wars.
Further discussion will have to take place elsewhere - the mods prefer most of it confined to the "Palestinian Struggle" sticky in the World Affairs section. There you will see many suggestions that "Palestinian" is an identity imposed upon Arabs by conniving self-interested leaders allied with external forces. Why Pakistanis should have a hand in supporting such tyranny is a puzzle, isn't it?
