The Tamils are claiming that part of Sri Lanka is theirs because many live there although they have never had their own country there. A similar claim was made in Yugoslavia. The Kurds may also be claiming that certain territories are their state. In the case of Israel, the situation is different. Israel was governed by Turkey, before the first world war and was then conquered by England and it was agreed that England would govern it on a temporary basis, but it was no longer to belong to Turkey. The land was owned by landowners in Syria and Turkey and farmed by Arab tenants. The land was mostly purchased from the owners by Jews and more won in a defensive war. As in the countries mentioned above, the Jews came in as residents, not as colonizers. Do residents have a right to split the country into two sections? If there was no "country" there in the first place, how does that effect things? Is it the Jews or the Arabs that are trying to split the country in two? This is a historical fact depending on the legalities of the ownership of the land according to U.N. resolutions. These I believe, (Except for the last question which is peculiar to Israel) are important universal questions and could be a subject for a lecture or series of lectures etc etc. The questions would be of interest to many people and should of course deal with the Israel question as well as others.