Kent: I don't view the establishment of Israel are morally unjust. I explicitly said that the "civilized" world including the US viewed colonialism as a good thing even after the the Zionist movement began sending Jews to Palestine (in the 1880s?) The US took control of a Philippines fully ready for self-rule and fought a bloody guerrilla war to gain control of the country. I refuse to apply present day moral standards to the Zionists who were "colonizing" (not exactly the right word) part of Palestine without the experience and wisdom mankind has gained from the past dozen decades, especially when America was doing the same thing at the same time. (Our interest in formal colonies quickly diminished and we promised Philippine independence in 1946 back in 1935.)

Most of the Jews who left Arab countries for Israel had been persecuted, but left VOLUNTARY. They were not displaced as a group by war. No one is asking European countries to compensate those jews who left Europe for Palestine before WWII or the USSR/Russia to compensate the jews (a million?) who have left since 1970.