I find it very interesting that conservative talk show hosts who say that Obama wants to surrender some of our governance to the United Nations are the same people who claim we have done nothing to cause the Palestinians, and much of the Muslim world, to be so upset with us. They forget that the state of Israel was taken from Palestinian land without their approval.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 formalized British policy preferring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people. Following World War I, the League of Nations granted Great Britain the Mandate for Palestine, which included responsibility for securing "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". In 1947, Tte newly created United Nations approved the Partition Plan for Palestine, which sought to divide the country into two states—one Arab and one Jewish. Jerusalem was to be designated an international city administered by the UN.
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Stephen,
I actually studied Arab/Isreali conflict as political science student. What most people are unaware of is the land acquired by Isreal was purchase for. Years later, after the bargain was reached the Arab world decided to make claims due to ancestry from the displacement. The British involvement in the Middle East resulted in artificial boundaries, that even to this day is disputed. The Arab world was nomadic and placed little value in land ownership. The fallacy of this mindset occur after the value of the land skyrocketed due to scarcity. Most of the conflict is a result of power and spining issues to justify emotional response rather exercising reason.