Originally posted by an0n
Actually it was more a matter of the the US and Britain going "Fu[color=23][/color]ck it, we're sick of all this ****. Let the UN decide what happens", then the UN going "Well, we could split it into two states. One Arab, one Jewish."
The Arabs told the UN to go blow itself, but the Jews went "That'll do" and declared Israel a state. America then gave its endorsement.
I stand corrected. Maybe more of the Jews' fault than I thought, then, based on that. I'll have to go and read some more....
Hmmm.
You guys remember that whole "US fundies engineering the apocalypse" thing?
http://www.likud.nl/extr74.html
Read that. Specifically, this bit:
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This, despite the fact that there is sound historical proof that Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazis in order to escalate the Jewish Problem.
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Now, I know for a ****ing fact that the entire "The Nazi's were trying to wipe out Jews" thing is bull****. Anyone with a highschool history book and an ounce of sense can see that the Nazi's hated everyone equally and strove only for world domination. All that 'superior race' crap was just Goebbels touting Himmlers stupidity to placate the masses. And it was just a coincidence that the first country on their 'to invade' list happened to be full of Jews. If it had been full of blacks, there wouldn't be a problem.
But it was full of Jews and Judaism has leveraged that fact to the extreme.
Taking all this into account, as far as conspiracy theories go, this whole "engineering the apocalypse" thing is looking pretty damn convincing.
Erm, not entirely with you on that. Yes, the Nazis hated everyone, and the anti-semitic rhetoric that Goebbels and the like spouted was at least partly to get the German public onside with the government. But Hitler was definitely anti-semitic (did you see the biography thing on TV recently with Robert Carlyle as Hitler? That gives a hint as to why he hated Jews so much).
There was also, I think, a fair amount of generalised racism inherent, but then that was fairly standard at the time (the US was still segregated, and large portions of several empires were rather heavily biased in favour of white people - South Africa, the subcontinent, Australia, etc.).
yes, it's a very good point, but it doesn't have some of the implications you seem to be getting at...