Gringo, you fail to mention the fact that the vast majority of Jews that moved from Europe to the British Mandate of Palestine from 1933 till 1946 were Holocaust survivors. Who no longer felt safe being an ethnic minority and no longer felt safe in Europe. Amin al-Husseini being complicit in the Holocaust didn't make the Jews feel to friendly towards the Palestinians either.
Prior to the Nazis, the idea of a Jewish state was nothing but a frivolous abstraction that would never have worked. Even if Napolean Bonaparte could live up to his proclamation, it would never have lasted. Post 1945 it was seen as a necessity.
You are trying to portray the creation of modern Israel in a vacuum and that is was created for the sake of it. Which is complete dishonesty on your part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
The notion that prior to the Nazis, the idea of a Jewish state being a "frivolous abstraction" is historically illiterate, David. The Balfour Agreement in 1917 and the events born of this can hardly be described as, "a frivolous abstraction". The Jews who moved from Europe from 1933 onwards are the architects of the problem in Palestine. That European problem has been exported to the Palestinians. The terror attacks in Palestine by Zionist terrorist militia(Stern Gang, Irgun et al.), the ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by them is straight out colonialism, land theft and genocide.
Lord Balfour and the UK state bear more responsibility for the creation of Israel than the Nazis. Israel is the bastard child of Imperialists and their backers, not Jewish persecution. That is just the cover story. The Haavara agreement that you linked is an interesting part of that history, but must be seen in that wider context rather than as a stand alone event. Ken Livingstone was attacked and sacked for "anti semitism" for even raising the issue of Haavara.
Zionism was a fringe issue to the majority of Jews but was pushed and promoted by bankers and financial interests. This is evidenced by the fact that the Balfour Agreement was given to Lord Rothschild who represented the "Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland". See below from wiki;
The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration Why were such powerful interests attempting to create the conditions for a state in Palestine for Jews despite only 1% of Jews at this time being Zionists? It didn't start with the Nazis, David.
