History Memes

Israel Palestine is famously NOT an actual 2 state solution.

Israel-Palestine was famously an attempted 2-state solution, hence the '48 war.

Nor did the Brits implement what happened in Palestine. They couldn’t find a good solution referred the problem to the UN, the UN told them to get out, and so did both the Palestinians and the Jewish population, so they did, without actually implementing any solution themselves.

... except the Brits, by the provisions of the Balfour Declaration, spent a good ~30 years tepidly supporting the development of conditions for an emigrant Jewish state in Palestine. That they couldn't find a good solution (or, rather, wanted to absolve themselves of having to make any decision in that shitshow) after destabilizing the region like that is not a "Whoops, guess it's not our fault" moment.

On the whole, I don't actually mean this to imply that the British Empire was some exceptionally monstrous entity. It resembled, largely, the average empire of the period; mostly neither better nor worse.

But these are major fuck-ups directly related to British intervention, and we're memeing here, so it's a little funny that they did it fucking twice.

Feel free to dab on the Americans or the French in response if you like, but this is a definite British fuck-up here.