robomatic - I appreciate your attempt to clarify my thinking about the subject.

Its this part that makes me feel a bit uneasy about the formation of Israel:

"and England assumed the Mandate over Palestine, having made a commitment to a Jewish State partly as a response to a Jewish chemist who enabled wartime production of vital chemicals through an early use of industrial bioengineering. The United Nations approved of a division of the territories between Jewish and Arab, and the Arabs tried to forestall this by armed action on the part of the neighbor states, (Iraq included)."

Wasn't this a rather cruel thing to do to the Arabs who claimed it was their holy land? Or did the world think that Arabs didn't matter and that they had no means of resistance?

What really bothers me is that it was partial payment to a Jewish chemist. Whaaaat?????????????