John,
The UN never dumped anyone in Israel. The UN did not establish Israel. The UN recognized a nation already created by people on the ground. Jews had been living there for centuries and by the 1930′s a large number of Jews had moved there, on their own or with funds gathered by Zionist agencies. These people had established courts, defense, newspapers, theatres, health care, roads and many other systems that are the hallmarks of national life. Not a single Jew was placed in Israel by the UN nor was a single Arab thrown out by it either. Jews where either born in Israel or came by the aid of other Jews. Jews and Arabs, mostly Arabs, moved what Muslims left Israel. All the UN did was recognize that it happened.
What exactly qualifies the Jew as the Arab’s age-old nemesis? Arab hate towards the Jew is a relatively new phenomenon. It is based on the fact that Israel did carve itself out of lands once held by Arabs, who took that land from Greco-Romans, who had taken the land from Jews.
The point is that we do not need to, “wrap their brains around this oft-forgotten fact: The UN came in, threw a people out of its nation and handed it to their age-old nemesis. In light of that fact, can you understand why there might be a few disgruntled parties in the area?”, because those facts you mention are false.
Anybody can be disgruntled for any number of reasons. The issue is how you express this dissatisfaction and why the Arabs would rather rant, destroy and kill then to accept that Israel exists. You may despise the Islamic whack jobs, sir, but you do not understand why they are unhappy. They are unhappy because rather then be partners they want to be overlords. The irrationality that frames the W&M Papers is closely related to the hatred of Great Satan and the frittering away of American wealth to China. It is the irrational scream which overwhelms the rational whispers of our good and sensible conscience.
