Explanation: After the formation of Israel, there was a great deal of tension in the Arab states. Israel, having come in and settled a minority ethnicity in an Arab-majority territory until they were populous enough to agitate for an ethnostate, and expel/ethnically cleanse many of the native Arabs, a genocide which is still ongoing to this day, was not popular in the Arab world, for reasons that should be obvious.
After an initial failed attempt to eject Israeli settlers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, there was a brief period of cold peace. Israel, for its part, put effort in this period into intentionally agitating the Arab states and stoking pre-existing antisemitism (which, to be fair, was not-inconsiderable), with the end result of a mixture of government policy in the Arab states and popular discontent driving out hundreds-of-thousands of Arab Jews from these countries... right into the waiting arms of Israel, which accepted all Jews as migrants. This nearly fucking doubled Israel's population at the time, greatly increasing its ability to resist economic and military pressure from the Arab states.
One suspects that it was not the best move, morally or strategically.
It hurt itself generations of Arabs and Palestinians in its confusion.
The past is such a frustrating thing. Amoral shitheads put into play plans like stoking bigotry against their own people, get rewarded for it (the reward being 'increased capacity to commit evil against other people as well'), and never see justice.
Explanation: After the formation of Israel, there was a great deal of tension in the Arab states. Israel, having come in and settled a minority ethnicity in an Arab-majority territory until they were populous enough to agitate for an ethnostate, and expel/ethnically cleanse many of the native Arabs, a genocide which is still ongoing to this day, was not popular in the Arab world, for reasons that should be obvious.
After an initial failed attempt to eject Israeli settlers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, there was a brief period of cold peace. Israel, for its part, put effort in this period into intentionally agitating the Arab states and stoking pre-existing antisemitism (which, to be fair, was not-inconsiderable), with the end result of a mixture of government policy in the Arab states and popular discontent driving out hundreds-of-thousands of Arab Jews from these countries... right into the waiting arms of Israel, which accepted all Jews as migrants. This nearly fucking doubled Israel's population at the time, greatly increasing its ability to resist economic and military pressure from the Arab states.
One suspects that it was not the best move, morally or strategically.
It hurt
itselfgenerations of Arabs and Palestinians in its confusion.The past is such a frustrating thing. Amoral shitheads put into play plans like stoking bigotry against their own people, get rewarded for it (the reward being 'increased capacity to commit evil against other people as well'), and never see justice.