Ed,
I guess they don't teach history any more. Truman didn't give them squat.
Here read up on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War
This could have been settled a long time ago but the Muslims aren't going to be happy until they either subjugate or exterminate every Jew there is. That's sort along of the same lines of what they want to do to "The Great Satan" (which in case you don't know is you and me). How is your wife going to look in a Burqua there Ed of America???