Thoughts on Palestine and Israel

When you look at a map of the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire, 1878 to 1914, you can see that it’s not unlike the map of North and South America during the 1500s and 1600s, where Indians lived in villages or wandered as nomads. Land was not delineated. Egypt, Tunisia, Persia, Russia, and Arabia were delineated roughly, but not Palestine. From 1914 to 1918, the Ottoman Empire supported Germany during World War I. For no reason. Just as, for no reason, Germany invaded France. As in the Napoleonic wars the century before, every man aged 25 to 45 died. Go to any town in France—there is a memorial with the names of all those men. In every church in every city, town, and village, there is a wall inside with a list of those names....