The Palestinians Had No Part in the Holocaust
So why did the consequences fall on them…?
FDR’s last summit was aboard the USS Quincy, an informal setting where for the first time a US President met with a Saudi King, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Though ailing, with only weeks to live, Roosevelt was in top form. He hoped first to establish a US presence in what had traditionally been Great Britain’s region of interest, and to persuade the king to support the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. He succeeded, brilliantly, with the first. But not with the second.
The Germans were the guilty party here, the king countered. Why should they not be compelled to make things right? Perhaps a Jewish state in Bavaria…?
The Arabs of Palestine had no part in the mistreatment and mass murder of the Jews.
This is a point Palestinian and anti-Zionist historians have been making for three generations now:
Why should the Palestinian people suffer for German crimes?
The first Nakba, or catastrophe, took place not in 1948 with the creation of Israel and subsequent war of independence, but a decade prior, as a result of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936–39, when British forces ultimately killed, imprisoned or…
