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If you're one of those people who got snookered into thinking that the term "anti-semitic" refers only to Jews no matter what type of Jew they are, here's a heads up for you.

Who is actually semitic:

Accadians
Aramaeans
Himyaritians
Arabians
Hebrews
Phoenicians
----Not on this list: Ashkenazis; Sephardics; other European Jewish denominations They are religions, not ethnicities and the ethnicity of these is European, not Semitic.Europe's countries can pass a lot of laws that say otherwise (and some have) but the passage of laws will not change ethnic history one whit.

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Now, before some yayhoo pops up and points at the Hebrew entry and makes the stereotypical linguistic argument, I hasten to point out that Yiddish is NOT on this list. Not only that, but just learning speaking a language doesn't automatically put you into an ethnic group. Me speaking Spanish does not make me a Spaniard, either.

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Like I was saying, a lot of people are under the erroneous impression that problems with the Middle East began with the United Nations establishing the State of Israel as a recognized nation after World War I.  Problems actually began in the mid 1800's beginning with one Theodor Herzl's efforts to organize Zionist Jews-- the BBC account of it, already cited, goes into how the Ottomans broke relations with Great Britain to change sides by allying with Germany, and the both of them subsequently were defeated by the same.  Under the League of Nations, not the U.N., the area which included the region now known as Iraq, came under British occupation.  Enter the Herzl factor, which had an ill-begotten effect on a yayhoo named Arthur James Balfour, who authored the outrage called The Balfour Declaration.  Regardless of the outrage it generated, Parliament came 'round and that's how the Palestine mess began.  The League of Nations failed when it was unable to collect reparation money from Germany for the cost of the war, and the particulars of that problem were the foundations of both the U.N. and World War II.

The Balfour Declaration

Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours,
Arthur James Balfour

Supplemental:
Summary of the Palestine Mandate

The following is a summary of the Commission's Report: -


SUMMARY
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PART I: THE PROBLEM
Chapter I. - The Historical Background

A brief account of ancient Jewish times in Palestine, of the Arab conquest and occupation, of the dispersion of the Jews and the development of the Jewish Problem, and the growth and meaning of Zionism.

Chapter II. - The War and the Mandate

In order to obtain Arab support in the War, the British Government promised the Sherif of Mecca in 1915 that, in the event of an Allied victory, the greater part of the Arab provinces of the Turkish Empire would become independent. The Arabs understood that Palestine would be included in the sphere of independence.

In order to obtain the support of World Jewry, the British Government in 1917 issued the Balfour Declaration. The Jews understood that, if the experiment of establishing a Jewish National Home succeeded and a sufficient number of Jews went to Palestine, the National Home might develop in course of time into a Jewish State.

At the end of the War, the Mandate System was accepted by the Allied and Associated Powers as the vehicle for the execution of the policy of the Balfour Declaration, and, after a period of delay, the Mandate for Palestine was approved by the League of Nations and the United States. The Mandate itself is mainly concerned with specific obligations of equal weight--positive obligations as to the establishment of the National Home, negative obligations as to safeguarding the rights of the Arabs. The Mandate also involves the general obligation, implicit in every Mandate, to fulfil the primary purpose of the Mandate System as expressed in the first paragraph of Article 22 of the Covenant...

Map of Palestine under the Palestine Mandate

Ottoman Population/Palestine Mandate

This last link addresses the false contention of pro-illegal-settlement Jews of Israel that Palestine was uninhabited when Israel was established when in fact it was peacefully co-habited by indigenous Jews (which were actually Semitic Hebrews), Russian Jews and Muslims, all of which recognized the morality of the Treaty of Medinah and the emperor of the Ottoman Empire considered it a moral obligation to permit refuge there to the Russian Jews escaping the Pogroms.  Austrian Theodor Herzl and his gang of Zionists applied to the Ottoman Empire for similar admission into the Empire, but due to the radical nature of his Zionist organization, founded in Switzerland, was denied that permission by the Ottomans.