here is a small bit of the history behind how the zionists got control of palestine, and took it away from those who were already living there;

alestinians and their supporters around the world mark 15 May as the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe). However, the Palestinian catastrophe was set in motion in London's Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 2 November 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was issued. 

In it, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour promised the Zionist Federation that his government “viewed with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and would use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object”.

Britain promised the land of the Palestinian people to another people who did not live there and had no right to it

There was, of course, more to this short document, but Britain, which was not in occupation of Palestine, promised the land of the Palestinian people to another people who did not live there and had no right to it.

Britain could also have offered Wales to the Jews.

One hundred and four years on, and Britain has still not accepted its responsibility for the part it played in the abuse of Palestinian people’s rights in the leadup to the British mandate, and its deliberate facilitation of the establishment of a state for another people in their homeland.

Let's pretend

When I first came to Britain in the 1970s, I learned quite a few sayings. One of them was that "an Englishman’s home is his castle"..........read more.......