is with Israel itself and the fact that its foundation is based upon forcibly removing people from land.

Israel was given a great deal of license to use force by the Allies after WWII and used the fact that arabs, having been subjects of European colonialism in that region, could not resist the large influx of European jews into the area.

There was an old Zionist slogan:

"A land without people for a people without a land"

That was used to garner support for a Jewish state.

This of course, was not true of Palestine, as there were 500,000 people living there when the State of Israel was formed.

Oops.

THE VERY INSTANT Palestinians were "encouraged" to leave lands that they had been living on (usually peacefully alongside the indigenous Jewish population) to make way for incoming settlers, Israeli jews lost any and all moral high ground that they may have had.

It is also telling that Uganda, the Congo and Cyprus were considered alongside Palestine as potential places for a Jewish homeland. The fact that these places all had indigenous populations bothered the Zionist forefathers not one bit. (see Liberia for a parallel amongst the descendents of slaves)

For certain, Jews needed to be safe, but the western powers used that burning need amongst Jews to create the trap known as Israel.

A trap?

Yes. None of the allied powers wanted to provide Jews with refuge in their own countries nor were they willing to provide security for indigenous European Jewish communities.

Europe wanted them out, and America certainly was anti-semitic enough to consider its existing population of Jews as "more than enough".

So they paved the way for them to go into the current deathtrap. Fueled by religious and nationalist zeal, a Jewish state in Palestine became the ONLY acceptable solution for Zionists.

Thinking that they would do to arabs what the United States did to Native Americans, Israeli leadership (distinct from the diverse views of its people) sees force as the answer to all of its security problems.

What they do not realize is that there is no answer. The arab world will not rest until Israel is either destroyed or no longer able to enforce its will on neighboring states.

What Israeli leadership is desperately trying to prevent from happening is in fact, inevitable.

Someone with interests inimical to those of Israel WILL obtain a weapon of mass destruction and WILL use it on a large population center. (Don't go long in any real estate in Tel Aviv.)

This could have all been prevented had the Allied powers:

1. Been commited to providing security for all European Jews within Europe itself. Remember, they controlled ALL of Western Europe. Of course they didn't like Jews either. The self-imposed exile proposed by the Zionists didn't sound too bad to them.

2. Found a piece of land that was actually unoccpied and formed a Jewish state there. There are several large US states that are underutilized with plenty of natural resources.

The current solution is unworkable and it is only a matter of time before someone commits an atrocity of unthinkable scope in Israel.

It's a damn shame.