Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's anti-Semitic and anti-Israel outburst claiming that Palestinians supposedly “provided” Jews with a safe haven after the Holocaust is at best misleading.
From 1920 to 1948, when Israel was founded, Great Britain ruled the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River, then known as Palestine, under a League of Nations Mandate. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Arabs there mobilized to kill Jewsand lobby the British to keep Jews out. During World War II, they joined with the Nazis to kill Jews. And after the war, rather than “providing” Jews with a safe haven, they again killed Jews and lobbied the British to bar Holocaust survivors. Only Israel's successful fight for independence against six Arab nations stopped the Arab massacres.
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