Mufti---you tell us who appointed this person.   Do I blame Palestinians---read my posting---their brethren who want no part of these poor souls---and who instigated every incursion. 1948-9 and on.

Herbert Samuel appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini to the position of Mufti even though al-Husseini's opposition received more votes from the Palestinian leadership than he. The Palestinian leadership considered al-Husseini to be a thug, and with good reason. Samuel had him released from prison where he was serving time for inciting riots and appointed him to the post of Mufti.

al-Husseini didn't just kill Jews. He also killed many moderate Arabs as well. And the Palestinians have been punished for the things done by this man ever since. Even though it was not a Palestinian, but a British Jew who appointed him to this position, and even though the Palestinians didn't want him. If you don't like the things done by the Mufti, you have one of your own co-religionists to thank for them. Stop blaming the Palestinians for that one.

And to try to justify the atrocious treatment of the Palestinians by Israel by blaming them for the way other Arab countries have treated them is about as absurd as it can possibly get. If your neighbor was beating his wife, would you go and beat her too, just on principle? Well, it wouldn't surprise me if you did. But the police and the courts wouldn't take a very kind view of that sort of behavior.

And the Palestinians did not instigate any incursions. And yet you think it is perfectly acceptible to punish them for what others are supposed to have done. Do you think it would be right for someone to punish you for what Herbert Samuel did, just because you are (were, in Samuel's case) Jewish? Of course not. And yet you advocate doing exactly that to the Palestinians.