Jews where killed by Hitler and Germany not by Palestine's wright? Why don't you give them a part of Germany instead of Palestine? Saudi king Ibn-Saud told Roosvelt.

I can do nothing else then totally agree whit him.


Zionism and the "Arab Problem"

The lure of Zionism blinded many to the fact that Palestine was already inhabited. By 1897, that 10,000 square mile area had been under Turkish rule for nearly four centuries and contained 600,000 people, 95% Arab (predominantly Muslim) and 5% Jews.5 By 1918, after the first two waves of Jewish immigration, the percentage of Jews rose to approximately 10%. Ownership of about half the land was in private Arab hands, 2.6% was privately owned by Jews, and while the remainder was State property under the Ottoman law, much of it had been farmed by generations of Arab villagers.

The greatest moral challenge to Zionism was (and remains) that a seemingly noble, and to some, intensely spiritual, vision--the restoration of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland--could be fulfilled only at the expense of another people, the Arab inhabitants of Palestine. While a few Zionists accepted the fiction that Palestine was "a land without people" waiting for "a people without a land,"6 most were aware of an indigenous population, but argued that Jewish need and rights to a homeland Jews had been unjustly deprived of 1900 years earlier outweighed the claims of the Arabs. Others ignored the problem, their priority being to create a Jewish socioeconomic infrastructure in Palestine by encouraging immigration, acquiring land, building Jewish institutions, and developing the capacities of Jewish labor.

If you want to read the whole Article here is the link.

http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Kapitan/history.html