You're absolutely correct in this assertion. The US's isolationist and nativist stance that occured predated much of WWII. We were more concerned with our god awful economy and a lot of politicians decided to blame our problem on immigrants and stated that our crappy job market was made worse by immigrants who would take what little jobs there were for even less money. This can be traced to restrictions on Asian immigrants as well as immigrants from Eastern Europe. (Western Europeans were by and large still coming through) That being said, the US originally made an exception for its policy and started to admit Jewish refugees. (i.e. Einstein was a Jewish refugee) However, rising political pressure forced the government to reapply its strict immigration quota rules and many refugees were turned away. I suppose if we had applied our laws the whole time, we wouldn't have had the atomic bomb (which mightve been a good thing?) Either way, While our exclusion of Jewish refugees was consistent with existing law, it was inconsistent with our principles and position on asylum refugees, and further complicated by the fact that we were briefly allowing jewish refugees before flip-flopping on our policy. And to top it off, the Western world condoned the creation of a new state that would serve as a refugee area for millions of Jews without any regard for the local population or any thought to fulfill some of the basic guarantees of the Balfour Declaration. The King's article was written after the fact, when many refugees had already arrived, and it was clear that they were intent on creating a "Jewish" state in every sense of the phrase without the Secular guarantees originally promised to the local population.
An arab friend just told me that King Abdullah was assasinated in Jerusalem while praying with his son months after this letter was made.
He was on the verge of formalizing relations with Israel when some jackass Palestinian nationalist shot him.
Although to be fair, some idiot did the same thing to Yitzakh Rabin. There are clowns on both sides who embrace extremism.
Saw this interesting interview on FoxNews, found a link to it, it relates to the overall topic. Just click on the link below and then proceed to click on "Click here to view your video, "Blame Israel?" http://www.foxnews.com/video2/launchPage.html?072506/072506_cavuto_rabbi&Blame Israel?
I think you're correct and totally agree with this and your previous posts. I was going to write a long posts but you've already hit all of the points I was going to mention and done it much better. DAMN YOU!
If Rabin had lived the middle east might be totally different today, maybe a real peace accord might be possible, who knows.
