Lee Heidhues 10.8.2023
I keep asking myself how the Middle East has turned into such a cauldron of death and destruction.
Granted there has been religious and political strife in the Middle East; specifically Palestine nee Israel, since the times of Jesus.
It’s fair to say that the situation really deteriorated beginning on November 2, 1917 when the British government issued the Balfour Declaration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
The State of Israel was created May 14, 1948. As they say the rest is history.
Displacement of the Palestinian population and creation of the hegemonic State of Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Independence
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel[2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization,[a][3] Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and soon to be firstPrime Minister of Israel.[4] It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day.[5][1] The event is celebrated annually in Israel as Independence Day, a national holiday on 5 Iyar of every year according to the Hebrew calendar.
The current inferno in Palestine nee Israel is the latest manifestation of the Balfour Declaration.
Lee's Perspective 