What is Israel?
Israel is historical fiction. The idea comes from the Bible, the most successful work of fiction ever, and the story of a people called the Israelites, named after their ancestor who was called Israel or Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. The legend developed and the name ‘Israel’ eventually came to refer to the people as a whole. The ‘Land of Israel’ is described as a promised homeland.
That is all there is. It has as much basis in fact as the Hobbit, the Loch Ness monster, Robin Hood or Beowulf.
Then in the 19th Century the idea of Zionism appeared driven by the need for a Jewish homeland in response to antisemitism, and influenced by European nationalism. Zionist leaders decided that there should be a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The idea developed over time, even gaining Hitler’s support in the 1930s, as he thought he could deport all German Jews to Palestine. Eventually after WWII and the Holocaust, the UK and USA supported the invasion of Palestine by about 100,000 Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. They drove out about 750,000 Palestinians by military force and so established the state of Israel.
This was quite clearly a terrible war crime but to our eternal shame, probably because of guilt over the Holocaust, UK and USA manipulated the UN into post facto ‘legalisation’ of it. There you have the cause of all today’s problems after 77 years of slaughter and subjugation of Palestinians by Israel.
Peter Reynolds 
“Eventually after WWII and the Holocaust, the UK and USA supported the invasion of Palestine by about 100,000 Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe.”Well yes but.In WW1 the British had assured the Arabs they would get home rule if they helped us drive out the Ottoman empire. The Lord Balfour made his ill advise declaration in 1917 offering a Jewish homeland. Then in WW2, as a part of the effort to get the yanks onside we supported the influential Zionist movement there, thus double crossing the Arabs after we took control of Palestine following WW2.It’s one of our most shameful periods , we lost control to Jewish terrorism (King David Hotel) and the yanks and the Zionists did the rest.This country is largely responsible for what happened.
derek23
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 am
Spot on Derek! I agree. Britain is the cause. We bear heavy responsibility for the crime that started in 1948 and continues today.
Peter Reynolds
September 16, 2025 at 12:19 pm
This is why I am not patriotic, because England has created mayhem and stolen resources all over the world for a very long time so what is there to be proud of? In fact I have come to believe that patriotism is encouraged by governments to brainwash people into dying in wars we shouldn’t be fighting anyway.
Victoria Hodgson
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 pm
This is why I am in no way patriotic. Why should I feel proud of a country that has caused mayhem the world over for centuries? I have come to the conclusion that patriotism is encouraged by governments so that people will be brainwashed into going to risk their lives in wars we shouldn’t even be fighting Britain needs to learn to mind it’s own business.
Victoria Hodgson
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 pm