What’s With The US’s Billions in Annual Aid to Israel?

While It Continues Denying Palestinians’ Human Rights

The territory known today as Palestine, several geographic ‘islands’ once integrally part of Israel, missed the boat in 1947. The United Nations (UN) then produced a plan that would have granted territory to become the State of Israel and other territory that would have become Palestine. The Jewish Agency for Israel accepted the plan. The Arab League, on behalf of Palestinians, did not.

These lands were appropriated from the larger Mediterranean-bordering territory known off and on since ancient times as Palestine. Any bible student — any student of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, all of which have their roots in the area — are familiar with the term Palestine.

The area presently is surrounded by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. The borders of most of those countries have shifted repeatedly through the centuries as they’ve fought with each other. There is, in short, a long history of neighborly strife in that part of the Middle East.

Pitched Battle Lines

So when the State of Israel came into being even as the Arab League, supported by Egypt and Transjordan, claimed some of that state’s territory to be Arab land, the battle lines were pitched. And…