How Israel Enrages Arab League, Islamics

Much has been written about the division of the Middle East between the victors of the First World War, the colonial powers of Britain and France, who split between them the rich spoils left behind by the vanquished Ottoman Empire. Nearly as much was written on the rapid withdrawal by the same “powers” in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, only a quarter century later, after they themselves had been either utterly (France) or very nearly (Britain) defeated by Nazi Germany. What is less pondered, for reasons of political correctness no doubt, is the post-colonial period in the countries that were formed after Britain and France withdrew from the region: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and yes, Israel. So what happened in the post-colonial period? What was the seminal event that was to define the futures of all the aforementioned countries from the day they gained independence from their colonial masters to this very day today? The answer is as unambiguous as it may be surprising to most people reading this article: it was the war that Israelis call the War of Independence and the Arabs the Nakba, the Catastrophe, the Holocaust.