>Brits though did you?

You must be kidding. There were bloody, bloody battles fought by arabs against occupation by foreign powers, namely the British and the French.

>
>A lot of the pan-arab sentiment aout Israel has much more to
>do with anti-semitism than it does about sympathy for the
>Palestinians.

Absolutely. Rich nations like Saudi Arabia and Yemen could do much more than they are to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians. Instead they use Palestinians as pawns in their own designs.

Nevertheless, this does not mitigate any of the injustices created by the very formation of Israel.

>Did you know that Palestinian children in Israel have higher
>rates of literacy and lower rates of infant mortality than
>Palestinian children in surrounding countries??

Again, this still does not deal with the violence perpetrated against Palestinians in the occupied territories.

To use a similar analogy, an African-American child living in the segregated South probably recieved a better education than a child in independent Liberia. That fact does not nullify the very real crimes of Jim Crow America.

>There is a lot of propoganda surrounding the whole issue. Im
>not saying the Palestinians arent treated badly in Israel,
>or that they shouldnt have land of their own.....

True.

We can talk until we are blue in the face, but the die is cast.

Someone sympathetic to the Palestinians WILL obtain a WMD and detonate it within Israel in our lifetimes. Believe that.

It is ironic that Israel was supposed to be a safe haven for Jewry in the world. It is likely that it will be one of its many cemetaries.