All people are deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's the foundation of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Any cultural group, deprived of rights, made into second class citizens, abused by a government and given no right or avenue for redress, is deserving of an independent, free nation.

This applies to Middle Eastern Jews. The very fact that the nations in which they lived called themselves "islamic" deprived Jewish residents of the most fundamental right of a free person- the right to be considered an equal under the law. Since, not being Muslim, no Jew could ever participate in the making of law in an Islamic nation- as an equal- he is by definition a second class citizen. Claims of fair treatment of Jews by Muslims are irrelevant- a well kept house slave is still a slave, and as long as a Jew cannot be a political equal by virtue of his religion, he is not a true citizen- IN HIS NATIVE LAND!

Claims of fair treatment of Jews by Muslims are also false, as made evident by documented, repeated cases of mass violence perpetrated against them, for which the governments offered no protection, and no justice. Since there is no avenue for democratic redress, the Jews of the Middle East were entitled, as Human Beings, indigenous to the region, to independence- NO LESS
than the people represented by the HUNDRED OTHER INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS the world has by and large supported over the past century.

So the Middle Eastern Jews have a HUMAN RIGHT to a free and independent state- OR the muslims can alter their governments to allow Jews to function as their political equals. Since the latter is not going to happen, the former is essential.

Since the Jews of the Middle East have a right to a free and independent state, IN THE MIDDLE EAST, it is only rational that it be located where, historically, their culture has been centered. Israel.

Since the Jews of the Middle East have a right to a free and independent state, sovereign and autonomous, it follows that they have the right to determine their own immigration policies.

Since they have the right to determine immigration policies, they have the right to invite in anyone they choose, be it an immigrant from Ethiopia or Russia. No nation has the right to tell another who is acceptable as an immigrant.

A naturalized citizen in a free nation has all the rights of a native citizen.

Since they have the same rights, the European immigrant citizens are JUST AS LEGITIMATE as the native Middle Eastern Jews.

So, Israel is not a mistake, not illegitimate, the European Jews have every right to be there, and this all flows from the existance of native Middle Eastern Jews and the refusal of the Muslims to grant them equal rights, coupled with the VERY SAME PRINCIPLES OUTLINED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. And THAT is why no one attacking Israel's existence ever mentions them.

Ben

PS: Some key passages of the Delcaration of Independence that justify the existence of Israel:

1) When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

3) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This last one is the last of the specific claims of Tyranny given in the declaration; substitute "Terrorists" for "Indian Savages" and it's a really good fit.

4) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.