Very Sceptical Observer, I am skeptical that you know anything about the Balfour Declaration. It was not created in 1948 but rather in 1917. In relatively modern history it is one of the reasons why we have so much trouble in the Middle East. Not only did it declare that Palestine should be the home of the Jewish Diaspora but it also subdivided existing Arab states. One example was the creation of Kuwait from what was southern Iraq.