David Horowitz argues two state solution has been offered before and always rejected by Arabs who are set on eradicating Jews, not on helping Palestinians

The Horowitz article/video is a useful corrective to much Arab propaganda and liberal prejudice in favour of the supposed under-dog.

Jews have not occupied the Holy Land since the rise of Christanity except as a minority in the land. Sadly throughout history it has been the Church that has been the chief persecutor of Jews since the time of Constantine. On the whole Islam was tolerant of Jews until relatively recent times when many Arab leaders came under Nazi influence

Under the influence of Zionism Jews started returning to the Holy Land in greater numbers from the end of the nineteenth century. After WWI under the British Mandate terrorism was used both by Arabs and Jews against each other and the British. Lawrence was of course pro-Jewish as well as pro-Arab.

The Balfour declaration did not of course promise a Jewish state but a homeland. In 1948 it was SEVEN nations who attacked the fledgling state of Israel.

Jews were not AMONG the most persecuted peoples in history, but were THE most persecuted.

Many Jews fled to the UK and USA before World War II. Hamas today rules only in Gaza.

If Iran used a nuclear weapon against Israel it would kill the so-called Palestinians and Jordanians as well as Israelis, because of fall-out.

What the USA needs to do about a future weapon developed by Iran is to supply nuclear submarines in the seas of the area with the threat of instant retaliation for nay first use. This would lead to a useful balance of terror as in the Cold War.

Iran can probably not be prevented from developing nuclear weapons and a pre-emptive strike by Israel would be very dangerous.

Israel wants peace. Palestinians do not really want peace, but the restoration of rights. For some families who lived in the Holy Land before 1948 there were indeed ancient property rights, but many so-called Palestinians first migrated to the Holy Land in the same period from the 19th Century onwards. They may well have been attracted by Jewish economic success.