Historical Injustice Quotes
The president believes that Israel was created solely to atone for the Holocaust. He has suggested that Israel should be in Europe. He does not mention the fact that that most of the Middle East including Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and others where part of a Jewish Kingdom over 2000 years ago and Jews were in the Holy Land ever since. He also does not consider the fact that Arab leaders were allies of the Nazis and supported the Holocaust.
England had negotiated and signed hundreds of treaties with the many maharajas and others in and regarding India. As India was establishing its own government under Great Britain, they kept running up against old treaties which limited their actions, especially for reform.
1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon. He was advocating British entry into WWI in defense of the Neutrality of Belgium as was their treaty obligation.
He had been born and brought up as a Roman Catholic but converted to Islam. The Catholic Church was for much of European History, the Government or a co-equal of Government in terms of power. As such it primary not only represented the power structure was the power structure and tended to always support the status quo. In America, the Catholic Church was also in a complicated situation. There was extensive anti-Catholic bigotry and sentiment in early America some of which still exists. The South with its poorer level of education and its protestant fundamentalist bent was the source of a disproportionate level of anti Catholicism. The Catholic hierarchy chose not to make a moral issue out of slavery and stayed away from abolitionist coalitions in order to curry favor and have Catholics seen in a favorable light by slave owning southerners who were the power elite. Like the Pope choosing not to combat Hitler given all the German Catholics, the Church generally supported slavery.
