Israel, a country surrounded by Arabs: Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, all Bedouin Muslims. The Muslims recognised no borders or rulers.

The only country Palestine had a population mixed with Arabs and Jews, which was a sore in the eyes of the Muslims.

When the Jews declared Israel a Jewish homeland in Palestine (1948) after the Balfour Feclaration divided Palestine in equal parts, the Arabs did not agree and threatened England with an oil embargo.

That was the beginning of all the trouble, the English tried to befriend the Arabs by giving more to the Arabs than to the Jews.

Also the English gave all their weapons and strongholds to the Arabs (in 1947) which gave the 100 million Arabs an enormous advantage.

The battle cry from the Arabs was kill the Jews rape their women and steal their possessions.

In the first war the British who had lied to Arabs, Jews and the French, with the result that 20.000 people died of hunger and decease in Jerusalem.

In 1950, the Brits send 5000 Jewish emigrants back to concentration camps in Germany were they came from, no wonder the Jews blow up the hotel with 200 British officers inside.

In the meantime the Jews build their Kibbuts (a fortified stronghold) to provide a home for the many Jewish displaced persons after the pogroms (violent riot) where 100 000 Jews in Russia lost their lives and in Poland 1900 and then six million in Germany.

Israel, which had bought the worst land from the rich Arabs landlords, transformed this land in the land of milk and honey. During the war of 1948, one Jew fought against 40 Arabs and won.

The Arabs are now busy destroying their own land into rubble. Don't blame the Jews for the garnish in the Gaza strip, I call this retaliation for the thousands of rockets shot into Israel. This is my opinion, a non-believer.

D Himpers, Papamoa.