Context (for those who don't know): Israel and Palestine
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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The Ottoman Empire split after WW1, Israel/Palestine happened in 1948. No one was anticipating Hitler doing genocide in 1919. Britain hadn't considered a plan to award Israel to the persecuted Jewish population of Europe at that point in time.
The Balfour Declaration was in 1917, and Britain began discussing support for the Zionist project in Palestine immediately after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in 1914. The idea dates back to at least 1896 when Theodore Herzl proposed it as a solution to the "Jewish question" which, itself, was being asked as early as the 1750s.
I cant believe it, someone who actually knows what they are speaking about?? in my imitation Reddit forum????
Let's not forget that Britain also ensured the rights of Palestinians in that same declaration, I would like to see them act on that one.
The meme is wrong though and should say WW1, not WW2. The creation of the State of Israel has nothing to do with the Holocaust, all of it was planned before WW2.