historical bad luck

The way the Indians lived was biologically-ecologically “cleaner.” The Europeans, living their crowded agricultural-barnyard lifeways, came into contact with many more pathogens. They suffered terrible plagues, but the surviving ones had immunities that the Indians didn’t have. Disease paved the way for the encroachment of the Europeans. And the wails of the natives were for naught.

Prior to WWII many could see that what the Jews and British were doing to the Arabs in Palestine was wrong, immoral. Then the horrors of the holocaust generated enormous international sympathy. The Zionists should have been castigated for flooding in during the 1920s and 1930s to the point where their numbers constituted 35% of the population. Rather, that 35% was given 55% of the territory of Palestine in 1948. Sympathy paved the way for the encroachment of the Europeans. And the wails of the natives were for naught.