Humanitarian Aid Quotes
At that time Jews in Palestine were in the minority. The issue of how to obtain the land was hotly debated amongst Jewish groups. Jabotinsky was at one extreme—colonize and take the land just as the Arabs had done to the Jews when there was a Jewish majority. His view did not however prevail. The policy was to buy the land from individual Arabs and Jewish land up to 1948 was obtained that way. In that year the UN partitioned Palestine and 11 Arab armies attacked the new state of Israel and asked the Arab civilians to leave the area so that the Army could cleanse it of Jews. Many did not, and they or their descendants are still on their land or have sold it. The Arabs who left, were suspected of being possible collaborators or terrorists, and they have never been paid for their land or allowed to return. Compensation is still in dispute. At the same time Jews driven out of Arab countries by law and the military have never been compensated or given any right of return either.
Tibet and some other ethnic enclaves of China have been almost impervious to the general improvement in the standard of living that China accomplished at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. China is not the only nation to have this difficulty. Some would argue that America still has it with some of its Native American nations. The great challenge is trying to develop and modernize a culture that does not want to be modernized at the moment but still wants many of the benefits of modernization.
This incredibly accurate prediction was made before the United States had entered the War when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Nehru had been educated in England and lived there at various times where he was one of the intelligence. He virulently detested Fascism and made very careful distinctions between the level of morality of British Colonialism and the much greater evil of Hitler-Mussolini Fascism. Few anti-colonial leaders then and since were able to see the shades of grey and make such a nuanced analysis. He foresaw that devastation caused by Fascist aggression and the world reaction would be so profound that the entire world order would change radically. Few others realized that at this time.
She and her husband, like many of the "America Firsters", believed that Hitler should be allowed to overrun Europe and Russia.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui
