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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
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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My point is that there would have been no Jewish exodus from a devastated Europe if the Third Reich had not been responsible for that devastation, and for the murder of 6 million Jews. European Jewery would have been more than happy to stay in countries they had lived in for centuries, and in which they had established themselve, rather than facing the life of an armed pioneer, in a hostile land, surrounded by enemies. With no Third Reich there would, possibly, be a token Jewish settlement in the Middle East. But nothing like the modern State of Israel.