Israel does not occupy Arab land

Arab states and Turkey today comprise 98,5 % of the area the Ottoman empire covered in 1917. Israel’s 1,5 % dips to less than 1% when one accounts for Egypt and other Arab lands taken from the Ottomans by France, Britain and Italy before World War 1. Why should the Turks get Turkey, the Arabs get numerous states, but the Jews get nothing?

After Hitler’s rise to power, Arabs intensified their efforts to deny Jewish immigration even when it meant a trip to German concentration camps, and even when those refugees were children. The then ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler’s honored guest in Berlin 1941-1945, played a prominent role in this.

In 1948 about 725 000 Palestinians left Israel, in a war the Arabs started. Afterwards, 900 000 Jews were expelled from or left Arab or Muslim countries, fearing for their safety. Their wealth and land were confiscated. Most of those Jews had roots there going back hundreds and even thousands of years as a result of the Assyrian, Babylonian and Roman exiles. Between 1948 and 1972, two thirds of the Jewish exiles from Arab and other Muslim countries had moved to Israel. Does Israel still have no right to exist?

In fact, having minorities becomes a recipe for violence and chaos and groups extort “protection money” from minorities. Egypt today has about 92 million inhabitants of whom roughly 9 million are Copts and other Christians. Ask them how safe they feel.

Out of the immense area left by the Ottomans, Arabs think that only they should be allowed to run countries, and those countries have to have a Muslim majority.

Every country founded by Arabs after each world war had a Muslim majority, with the exception of Lebanon where Christians made up 53% of the population at the time of independence in 1943. That number has since decreased to 38%. Such demographic trends show the folly of a one-state solution for Israel’s Jews.