The old story: Jews came to Palestine and developed it. They had been stateless long enough. Palestine was essentially empty except for some Jews in Jerusalem and some Arab tenant formers near the northern coast.
The Muslim Brotherhood was created by an anti-Semitic s.o.b. who got the British to bar further entry to Palestine by Jews while Arabs continued to move in and capitalize on what was being built by the Jews.
The middle story: Five Arab states (maybe one or two more) attacked the fledgeling state of Israel. Surprise, surprise, Israel survived.
The story that set the stage for today: Failing to destroy Israel, the Arab states gave support to a terrorist by the name of Arafat. Despite his terrorism, Israel managed to get him out of Israel and then out of Lebanon. But the U.S. (yes, the U.S.) rescued this bastard. They made Tunisia accept him and then twisted Israel's arm to readmit to the west bank as leader of the Palestinians. He continued with his bloody intifadas as the U.S. stood by and watched him turn down peace proposals that would have done grievous harm to Israel. But that's not what Arafat wanted. He didn't want Israel weakened. He wanted Israel destroyed. When he died, the world saw what he had done with much of the aid given him for the Palestinians. He had socked it away in Swiss banks for this family. "His Palestinians" be damned.
The story today: begins with Abbas, Arafat's successor: Every bit as ruthless and corrupt as Arafat, he began to encounter an entity even more ruthless and corrupt; namely, Hamas. And as bad as Abbas is, Israel judged him as more acceptable than Hamas. Their battle cry: Remove all Jews between the river (Jordan River) and the sea (Mediterranean). They work for the day when they can say, "Bye, bye Isreal."
Current: Instituted by one of our most hated American presidents, we have the Abraham Accords. This comes just as our ever-stumbling, current U.S. presidents is clearing the path for a country that hates us to acquire an atomic weapon. But, with the Abraham Accords, a way has been opened for Arab countries, willing to live peacefully with Israel. to confront every one's worst nightmare; Iran with atomic weapons.
Now comes the latest development: Hamas and to a lesser extent, Fatah, support a proxy for Iran, namely the Houthis. And, what does our current U.S. president do? He takes the Houthis off our list of terrorist nations.
Stay tuned.
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