Before World War I, European countries were the heads of Empires.

The British Empire included India, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. The French Empire included parts of Africa. The Austria-Hungary Empire included not only Austria and Hungary but many of the Slavic countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In the Middle East the Ottoman Empire controlled parts of the Mid-East including Mesopotamia,  Constantinople, Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Mecca, and what is now known as Saudi-Arabia, By the beginning of the First World War, the Empire had become weak, and Britain had assumed control of Arabia, Qatar, and Oman.

By the end of the war the German Empire and the Austria-Hungary Empire, having been defeated, were divided among the winners as was the Ottoman Empire that just fell apart, with a little help from Britain.

Baron Rothschild, a supporter of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland for Jews being persecuted in Europe and Russia, pressured Lord Balfour, the Foreign Secretary of Britain, to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, and by November 2, 1917, Lord Balfour was able to inform Baron Rothschild:

“His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

The post-war League of Nations divided up the former Ottoman Empire from a European perspective without any regard for the culture, ethnicity, religious beliefs, or interests of the peoples living there, similar to how the North and South American continents were divided by the countries in Europe for their financial advantage and peace among the warring European countries fighting for dominance and land claims without any regard for the culture, ethnicity, religious beliefs, or interests of the peoples living there either.

In both instances the locals would just have to accept and deal with the condition forced on them regardless how they might feel about it.

The divisions were made to guarantee chaos and conflict in the area that would benefit the two most powerful countries in the League, France and England. Control of the people and the oil to be had was aided by the infighting among groups of people who were carelessly mixed together, the disregard for historic boundaries, and reducing the historic power and dominance of local tribal leaders and warlords.

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The Israelis and the Palestinians are in a constant state of turmoil because of the Balfour Declaration, and the conflict there is the result of the preferential treatment that the U.S. now gives Israel compared to Palestine.

The Arab world retaliates by terrorizing us.

Just as in Central America, where the interference for the corporate benefit of United States companies has resulted in dictatorships supported by us and not the people living there, and has resulted in civil wars, drug cartels, and the fight for power, the Middle East game played over the decades is breaking down and resistance to leaders forced on the people and the boundaries that ignored culture, ethnicity, religious beliefs or interests of the peoples living there, has resulted in power wars which the Euro-centric countries attempt to control while ignoring the simple fact that they caused it, and this is the result.

The innocent people who simply want to live their lives are the collateral damage of the fighting in both areas, and, seeing no relief, have found moving away from the conditions forced on them by the two entities who, while responsible, take no responsibility is their only option.

Europe created the conditions in the Middle East, and those affected by them are fleeing to the countries responsible, while those countries, which had no problem with those conditions because it benefited them as long as they were kept at a distance, are not happy the chickens are coming home to roost.

Europe’s victims are heading to Europe to escape the conditions those countries created, and the people in Central America are heading our way for the same reason.

But both destinations are uncomfortable with dealing with the mess of their own creation. Far away the game playing was just fine. Up close means taking responsibility and dealing with it rather than leaving that to the empire builders’ victims.

And neither likes that.

(as a reminder of the U.S. culpability in Central America, I have attached an earlier blog:  http://www.quigleycartoon.com/?p=10472 )