UPDATE: The prize winning comment on this post re an accusation that we have been too pro-Israel:
ahem:Surely you remember Arafat's mentor, Haj Mohammad Amin Al-Husseini?
Arabs were slaughtering Jews in the 1920's and calling for fatwas against the British and Jews in the 1930's.
No Israel to blame and the US did not write the Balfour Declaration or parcel things up after WW1.
WW1 the Palestinians sided with the Germans. WW2, Arabs sided with the Nazis and then the Soviets.
The US did not give all that much support to Israel until the 1970's when it appeared it might actually be destroyed. In fact Eisenhower was anything but proIsrael and we had a huge falling out with the Brits in the 50's over Suez and our refusal to go along with Israel and Britain going after Egypt.
The US has not been antiArab and proJew. It is not that simple.
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