The analogy arises from the fact that the military capability that enabled the Exodus generation to carve out a homeland was provided by the U.S. and its allies. If that is the model for creating artificial states for self-determination, then we should be consistent. Heck, while we're at it, let's arm the Armenians and the Tamils.

"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown