there seems to be a widely held view that Israel must follow rules that are expected of no other country, held to standards of no other country and subjected to provocation like no other country.
after working through far too many reports and official documents from different players relating to the mandate and post war periods it was hard not to conclude that most countries including the us and Britain would have happily seen Jews and Israel eliminated - finishing what Hitler started. That included the UN whose right of return resolution was the most bizarre and utterly at odds with what happened in the division of India and Pakistan abc later Bangladesh or the eviction of Indians from Uganda