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Not necessarily. My comments were of my first hand experience in the country, thus questioning those who say it's a violent, militaristic regime. I was there, and saw neither.Wow, I guess that means their foreign policy is pleasant, friendly and enjoyable too.
Wow, I guess that means their foreign policy is pleasant, friendly and enjoyable too.
Not necessarily. My comments were of my first hand experience in the country, thus questioning those who say it's a violent, militaristic regime. I was there, and saw neither.
We must remember that it was the Palestinian Arab's as well as surrounding Arab states' rejection of the November 1947 United Nations Partition Plan that started much of the trouble. The very day Israel was created in November 1947 the neighbouring Arab states and Palestinians attacked Israel's Jewish population.
Agreed the Palestinians need help, but you can forget about the end of the occupation making any difference to Islamic terrorism. These folks don't hate the west because of the Palestinian's plight nor with the west's association with Israel. IMO, the Islamic terrorism movement is much like any other violent group, from the Tamil Tigers to the Nazis, it's about local charismatic thugs finding a people in poverty, dispair and looking for the reason for their situation and someone to answer it.What happened in 1947 is largely irrelevent, we need a solution now and the occupation much end. Not only for the Palestinians but to eliminate it as a motivation for the Islamic terrorism we're dealing with today.
Thus, you live in abject poverty, or see millions of others as such, in a slum in Egypt, and a rich Yemeni-born Bin Laden tells you this is all about a war with the west, and sure the Palestinians will be used as an excuse, but once they're dealt with, they'll be another, and another excuse to keep the terrorists motivated.
Agreed the Palestinians need help, but you can forget about the end of the occupation making any difference to Islamic terrorism.
These folks don't hate the west because of the Palestinian's plight nor with the west's association with Israel.
And that is why the Isreal will be blamed years to come for all the problems of the Palestinians (and I am not saying Isreal is innocent).
Neighbouring nations supposedly friendly to the Palestinians don't want the question raised as to why some of them are so well off whiles others are so poor, or why most of those governments run dictatorships of many different types. That would be a lightning rod issue for all Arabs, wouldn't it?
Isreal is convenient because it affects Palestinians. However, eighbouring governments, including many repressive dictatorships, would suddenly be in the spotlight if the glare were taken off Isreal. People like Chomsky tend to gloss this over.
We don't see Bin Laden or his ilk strapping on a bomb, do we. It is so much easier to con the disposessed into doing that type of thing.
Every new Palestinian born in a refugee camp, seeing homes around him bulldozed, having friends and family killed, going through the daily humiliation of check-points is at a high risk of becoming a terrorist.
This is based on what?
This could go on for generations and still there would be no Palestinian industry, limited agriculture and few private sector employment opportunities. The west would be better off financially by taking all 500,000+ Palestinians and accepting them as refugees, say 20,000 per UN refugee-signatory country?
How can they form a viable state? They're in the middle of the desert, with no resources or products to sell, no employment and a shrinking water supply. The alternative to rescuing these folks and moving them elsewhere is to say, well you've got your independent state, and leave them to starve and/or fight internally...or...we throw billions of taxpayer dollars into the pit to prop up the new state, which would still collapse the moment the tap was turned off.So, in other words, the Palestinians have no way of ever forming a viable state, and they should be eliminated as a nation. I hope you realize how extreme your view is.
How can they form a viable state? They're in the middle of the desert, with no resources or products to sell, no employment and a shrinking water supply. The alternative to rescuing these folks and moving them elsewhere is to say, well you've got your independent state, and leave them to starve and/or fight internally...or...we throw billions of taxpayer dollars into the pit to prop up the new state, which would still collapse the moment the tap was turned off.
Okay, okay. Tell us, how will the Palestinian state be viable? They can't even run Gaza without going finanically bankrupt without western aid, and then they go and lose the aid by electing Hamas as their representatives.People have lived here since Biblical times but now Middle East expert Abeja has declared the land unliveable. Quick, everyone out of Bethlehem!
Jordan is America's friend, Lebanon is finally becoming stable, Egypt wants tourists not terror and Syria is on the USA's post-Iraq hit list. Meanwhile Irsael has never been more militarily powerful. There is little likelihood of another big war involving Israel or its neighbours, so if the Palestinians are hoping that will help them, they can forget it.We may just have to wait until after the next big war.
