Who gave Zionists its foothold in Palestine? The British Empire. Who signed the Balfour Declaration in 1917—while Palestine was still under Ottoman control—promising land that wasn’t theirs to a movement that wasn’t native? Britain. Who administered Mandatory Palestine after WWI? Britain.
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Menachem, thank you for reminding everyone that rage doesn’t equal knowledge.
You said: "The British didn’t enforce Zionism. They helped the Arabs."
Let’s walk calmly through the timeline:
Who gave Zionists its foothold in Palestine?
The British Empire.
Who signed the Balfour Declaration in 1917—while Palestine was still under Ottoman control—promising land that wasn’t theirs to a movement that wasn’t native?
Britain.
Who administered Mandatory Palestine after WWI?
Britain.
Who facilitated Zionist immigration, guarded settlements, disarmed the native population, and crushed Arab resistance—while Zionist militias like the Haganah and Irgun grew in strength and impunity?
Britain.
And when Palestinians rose up between 1936 and 1939 against this colonial pipeline from Ottoman rule to Zionist takeover, who crushed that revolt?
That’s right: British bayonets.
Tens of thousands of British troops.
Thousands of Palestinian deaths.
Entire leadership exiled or imprisoned.
Zionist paramilitaries armed, trained, and left untouched.
That wasn’t neutrality.
That was enforcement.
Zionism didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It was born, bred, and backed by empire.
Without Balfour, without the Mandate, without British firepower, Zionist settlers would have stayed a fringe movement scribbling manifestos in Vienna and sipping espresso in Paris.
You want to cherry-pick 1948?
Fine.
By then, Britain was done managing the mess it engineered. And yes, some British officers led Arab forces—like Glubb Pasha with the Arab Legion.
But who declared a state the moment Britain withdrew?
Who seized 78% of the land?
Who expelled over 750,000 Palestinians?
Who emptied 500+ villages, erased names, and planted pine forests over the rubble?
It wasn’t Glubb Pasha.
It was Zionist militias, many of them trained under the British.
So no, the British didn’t "oppose" Zionism.
They midwifed it.
They armed it.
They shielded it.
And when they walked out, they handed the keys to the baby they helped raise after locking the native population out of their own house.
Now onto your second fiction:
"There were barely any Arabs in the Levant before the 7th century."
This myth that Palestine was a barren stage waiting for Zionism to write Act One.
Let’s fix that.
Were Arabs present before the 7th century? Yes.
In Nabataea. In the Ghassanid and Lakhmid kingdoms.
In Roman armies. In Byzantine provinces.
In trade routes, settlements, and border garrisons.
The Arab presence in the Levant predates Islam.
But even if it didn’t, what exactly are you arguing?
That people who’ve lived, farmed, worshipped, and died on a land for 1,400 years still don’t belong,
But someone who showed up in 1948 with a European passport does?
That’s not history.
That’s settler logic on steroids.
Let me offer you a concession of my own:
You’re right about one thing.
The British left.
But not before they handed Zionism the gun, the map, and the myth.
And today, people like you are still trying to erase 1,400 years of rooted presence with a footnote and a flag.
Palestinians don’t need your permission slip from antiquity.
They need their homes back.
And no amount of Glubb Pasha trivia is going to change that.
So take off the dunce hat, Menachem.
It’s not flattering when you already came dressed as a footnote.
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