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Originally posted by Dagnabit
I don't take sides on the Middle East much but the Palestinians are clearly the underdog. Look at the picture that started this thread.
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I say again: look at the Middle East <b>as a whole.</b> See all that land? 99+% of it is Arab-controlled. See the little piece of land the size of New Jersey alongside the Medeterranean Sea and crammed in among Transjordan (the actual Palestinian state, if you take even a cursory glance at a history textbook), Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria? That's Israel- all of it. There ain't no more- they're not hiding some millions of square miles of desert containing billions of barrels of oil wealth.
Now, tell me again why the Palestininans, given that they are part of this huge and powerful people are an underdog. Because their own people are fucking them? That's the issue, when it comes right down to it- of all the millions of refugee people since WWII, one group has not been resettled in lands where their own people live- the Palestinian Arabs.
They want restitution for lost land and property? Sure... how 'bout the Arab nations pay the thousands of Jews who were living in Arab nations in 1949, and were expelled when Israel came into being. Right of return? Sure... have the Arab nations grant it to the Jews they kicked out.
Hell, for that matter, every single one of us should probably get on the phone <b>right now</b> and call up a Native American and invite them to move right into our home, since the entire US is built on land which was, in effect, taken from them with a brutality which makes Israel look like the very model of civility.
Again, glass houses and stones,
Z