When you hear Muslims, especially the new type of Muslims called Palestinians, speaking about Israel, all you ever hear is blind hatred directed at that nation and the Jews. Well the Zionists. In the last programme I told you about the subtle distinction that had grown up. It was supposedly not anti-semitic to say that you hated Zionists. It was anti-semitic to say that you hate Jews.

But since a Zionist is a person who wants a Jewish homeland, that doesn’t leave many Jews out. All of the problems that the Jews have suffered in the world since the conquest of their land by the Arabs in 635AD, could have been avoided to a great extent if they had had a separate country of their own to go to for sanctuary. The country that has been theirs 2500 years before the Arab Conquest armies arrived.

Largely since then, and especially from 1900 onwards, the Muslim regime and influential people, had been doing everything possible to stop Jews from other parts of the world going back to their homeland in Palestine. Anyone else could go there but not Jews. Because it was their homeland. I talked about this in Parts 9 and 10 of this series.

And as far as I can see, and have seen for the whole of my long life, is that all Muslims, with very few exceptions, feel exactly the same way about Israel and the Jews. They really want the nation of Israel wiped from the map and all of the Jews driven into the sea.

Except that isn’t actually how a lot of the Muslims feel, and when you think about it, that’s not surprising. There are always people of goodwill and who want to peaceably resolve differences, especially differences that end in war.

So why don’t we ever hear from those Muslims? Well the answer is disturbing. I’m going to look at what happened from the time of the British Mandate until the start of the Second World War.

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