who, insisted that the Jews be given a homeland after the atrocities carried out on them during WWII and I agree with that decision. There NEVER has been a country called Palestine, and Palestinians are a made up of group of people( muslim but not totally) who were displaced (voluntarily, because they were given the right to remain) from the land given to Israel. Remember this was a League of Nations decision, not a unilateral dicision, by the british occupying forces. I have been to Israel and the ccupied territory and if the Palestinians had spent the aid given to them over the decades on building infrastructure instead of corruption and lobbing mortars and rockets into Israel they too would have something better than a slum to live in. And if you want to claim the jews have no right to occupy Israel, then blame the Romans, because Jews occupied that land for at least three millenia before being displaced by the Romans in about the third century A.D. James B, I was not going to do this, but have you been to Gibraltar? I bet you have not. I have. About 10 years ago, a few years after the Spanish were forced to open the land border by the EU commission. At that time already several thousand spaniards were crossing he border daily, driving legally across the airport landing strip which has traffic lights, to work in Gibraltar. I bet if you asked those workers which lived in Spain,