It's not quite incorrect, either - we just can't tell, which is the point the writer makes. However, in typical apologetic fashion, he continues:
What happened was that a piece of empty desert which had been under the control of the British Mandate (who got it after the Ottoman Empire fell apart) was awarded to the Jewish state. This is a question of political control, not land ownership.
I've bolded some of the problematic terms employed here. First of all, like Libya, or nearly anywhere in northern Africa, the 1940s—and for nearly 200 years prior, as can be historically accounted-for—era Palestine-region was home to numerous unzoned-landowners and nomadic groups. Because their relationship to land-ownership was traditional and hereditary, the arrangement they had with the former Ottoman Empire was informal. It did not proceed along the same lines as state-owned and administered land that recognized private property ownership as such.
When the British "got it" (ie
took it), they immediately began their own policy not of expulsion, but of quasi-imperial incentivization within Great Britain, in order to entice jewish residents both at home (ie in Great Britain) and abroad (ie in Europe) to leave. This was bandied about with propaganda flyers much as they advertised the "rich land waiting to be settled" of the Americas—a land which we're all well-aware was fully inhabited by the various tribes of the Native Americans.
However, like the Americas, Palestine was not just an "empty desert". In fact, the British exploited this perception to great effect with the slogan they employed thus:
"A home without a people, for a people without a home".
Interestingly enough, the British Fascists Union greatly supported this slogan. . .
Don't believe for a second that the international
support for a jewish homeland discrimination against jews has ever been well-intentioned.
Could somebody answer me this? In what other context—ever—has a race of people ever had a "home"? There sure are regional origins for various genetic haplo -types and -groups, but never has that ever been a case for their "return" to that place of origin, and this goes doubly for something as amorphous as a belief system.
