The Palestine Problem

In the previous post, Palestine Is Not For Sale, I quoted from David Fromkin’s A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, which has an interesting account of Churchill’s dealings with the Arab leadership regarding Palestine. In another section, this account reveals so much not just about the core of the conflict, but also the patterns of behavior which later repeat themselves:

Churchill approached the complex, emotion-laden and muddled que...