But it is no irony at all. It is the result of deliberate calculations made by Palestinian leaders who understand how easy it is to provoke democracies into overreaction by murdering their most vulnerable civilians.

But instead of responding to Muslim violence by cracking down on its perpetrators, the British punished its victims by giving the mufti exactly what he was seeking: a reduction in Jewish immigration and a statement by the British high commissioner that the Balfour Declaration was a “colossal blunder.”

Instead, the IDF sought to weaken Hezbollah, attacking both Hezbollah military targets as well as Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport. But Hezbollah fought back for several intense weeks during what became known as the Second Lebanon War and held a seemingly much more powerful IDF at bay. It was a

This impasse, resulting from Arab rejection of “all attempts to give any part of Palestine over to Jewish sovereignty,”18 coupled with Arab violence, led directly to the British decision to curtail the flow of Jewish refugees into Palestine, despite acknowledgment in the Peel Commission Report that “Jews enter Palestine as of right and not on suffe