Yeah, but he saw Haj Amin as a powerful figure, an agitator, and wanted to win him over. I never said Samuel wasn't misguided! Rioting was the customary way of venting anger and Jews were always cordially disliked on the whole. Hostility was always simmering below the surface between the various ethnic and religious groups. Bedouins, Fellahin, Druse, Christians and Circassians were usualy one step away from slaughtering each other. In fact the average Palestinian probably hated the Bidawi far more than he did the Jew.


Dianavan, how could the Zionists carve up Germany and Russia, two of the world superpowers. The problem was in Russia and Germany anyway.
The Jews are a separate ethnic and religious group, who have been yearning to return to their homeland for centuries. It wasn't just a whim. What you say about the blacks, that's why Sierra-Leone and Liberia exist. A part (large part) of Iraq and Turkey IS Kurdistan. Iraq is a modern creation drawn up on a map with little consideration for the actual reality. Turkey is what remains of the Ottoman Empire.
Homosexuals are not a minority in the sense that Jews and Roma are. You can be a homosexual regardless of race or religion.
Zionism did not just march in and displace the locals. The first settlements were in vacant, inhospitable land they made work by sheer will.

Just to stir the pot, Native Americans did much the same thing to each other.