Is Israel a puppet of the west?
Yes
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No
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No, here, let me give you the history of Israel. After World War II, Britain found itself in intense conflict with the Jewish community over Jewish immigration limits, as well as continued conflict with the Arab community over limit levels. The Haganah joined Irgun and Lehi in an armed struggle against British rule. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors and refugees sought a new life far from their destroyed communities in Europe. The Yishuv attempted to bring these refugees to Palestine but many were turned away or rounded up and placed in detention camps in Atlit and Cyprus by the British. Escalating violence culminated with the 1946 King David Hotel bombing which Bruce Hoffman characterized as one of the "most lethal terrorist incidents of the twentieth century". In 1947, the British government announced it would withdraw from Mandatory Palestine, stating it was unable to arrive at a solution acceptable to both Arabs and Jews. On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), be created "to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine". In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with "an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem ... the last to be under an International Trusteeship System". On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union as Resolution 181 (II). The Plan attached to the resolution was essentially that proposed by the majority of the Committee in the Report of 3 September 1947. The Jewish Agency, which was the recognized representative of the Jewish community, accepted the plan. The Arab League and Arab Higher Committee of Palestine rejected it, and indicated that they would reject any other plan of partition Side: No
Good post, Cappie. I agree with it all. And no, I do not consider the Nation of Israel to be a puppet State. Rather, they are our lone ally in an otherwise turbulent and hostile area of the Earth. They are surrounded by radical jihadists and terrorists who want us, and them, annihilated. Removed from the face of the Earth. So I am totally OK with the fact that the U.S. annually give Israel more funding than it does any other country. I was also hoping that we would unleash Israel on Iran as an answer to that country's very dangerous nuclear proliferation. I am disappointed that has not happened. Yet, anyway. Israel has a top-notch world-class military. Especially its Air Force. I think they could make quick work of the murderous Iranians. I have hope that this will happen in the not too distant future. As far as I am concerned, Israel should have carte blanche to do anything it wants in order to fight its tyrannical and psychotically hostile neighbors. And we should help them all we can. We do, too. GO ISRAEL!! Side: No
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