[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Eric

For example, it is a valid and defensible argument that if there had been no Third Reich, there would have been no Israel.

I'm quite prepared to slag the Germans as much as any true Brit, (in fact living here I think gives me a more valid & in depth insight into the Germanic mentality) but to say they are responsible for Israel I find difficult to countenance.

The resettling of the Jewish people has been ongoing since the late 1800's but it was really only at the end of WWII that the focus was intensified. Jewish refugees & survivors of the Holocaust needed a focal point & a place to define as their own, it was he British who controlled Palestine & they then divided & designated the land for the use of the Jewish people, ratified by the UN.

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Founding of the State of Israel