A Homeland vs. A Colony
One of the funniest things one can read in regard to Israel and the conflict in the Middle East are people who claim that all the current problem could have been avoided if the early Zionist organizations had accepted the 1903 British proposal for a Jewish Colony in Uganda. In fact, problems in the Middle East would have been avoided, only to create them in Africa, where the Jewish State would be a colonist state and not a reborn homeland. For example from a BBC comments board:
[..]Jews as a race lived worldwide and in 1912, the British in the infinite wisdom offered the Jews a homeland in Uganda which was rejected. Eventually they settled on Palestine. The problem however was that this land was inhabited by 700,000 Arabs and about 50,000 Jews (only 10% of the population). Strange how a minority group in this country can not only take over someone else's home but also then oppress those same people whom they evicted in 1948[..]
Nadia, UK
This person needs to clarify her logic, she’s claiming the Israel is colonizing Palestine and what the Jewish people should have done instead is to colonize Uganda.
7:59:42 PM 
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