Does that really matter? To delve into the minutiae is to be sucked in whirlpool with conflicting narratives. The Israeli's are gonna cry victims. The Pals are gonna cry victim. Both will present a picture of innocence.
But I think we can firmly all agree that this tragedy that has been playing in the West Asia for nearly century is direct product of one reason. The reason is what the late Professor Edward Said defined as the "European problem". Namely the 1000 year inability of Europeans to live in peace with their Jewish population.
The climax of this came with the Final Solution and the Wannsee Conferance. You see mass migration can only be driven broadly by two factors -
- 1 - economic forces such as the Irish famine
- 2 - persecution, genocide or war like the recent Syrian conflict
Ever since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and Balfour declaration the Zionists had desperately been trying to get Jew to move to Palestine. But the numbers were inconsequential and would never been enough to carve out a state.
However thanks Adolph Hitler and his Final Solution factor [2] came into force. It triggered massive migration of Europeans from Poland, Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine etc to desperate voyage across the Mediteranean in exactly the reverse direction to what the Syrian refugees would take 70 years later.
That massive influx of Europeans to the shores of West Asia gave the numbers thus tipping critical mass and ensuring the birth of Israel few years later. Thus Adolph Hitler is still having his laugh. And the final rub in this is. Both the Jews and Arabs are Semites.
In the greatest irony of all Adolph Hitler has got the Semites killing each other. Meantime Europe luxeriates in glow of peace and civilization.
Below crowded boats of refugees from Europe. Some sank and many drowned, How history repeats itself.