Israel pounds Gaza, threatens to kill Hamas leaders

[DanaC]

The only thing different about the Israel-Palestine situation is that no Arab nation is making the slightest effort to give displaced Palestinians a new home and a new prosperity, despite some several Arab nations being positively aslosh with wealth! Would Mohammed approve? I don't think so -- he'd've found this course of action highly uncharitable.

If Europe was subjected to a 'migration' push do you think the French would be happy to move in with the germans? Or the British to move in with the French?

The Palestinians want there homes. They don't want to move into neighbouring lands just because they happen to be Arabs. You seem to believe that Arabs are all one and the same with no cultural or national distinctions. They share certain cultural similarities and generally share a basic religion. Europeans share certain cultural similarities and generally share a basic religion......doesn't mean we aren't entirely distinct from one another.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by DanaC

If Europe was subjected to a 'migration' push do you think the French would be happy to move in with the germans? Or the British to move in with the French?

The Palestinians want there homes. They don't want to move into neighbouring lands just because they happen to be Arabs. You seem to believe that Arabs are all one and the same with no cultural or national distinctions. They share certain cultural similarities and generally share a basic religion. Europeans share certain cultural similarities and generally share a basic religion......doesn't mean we aren't entirely distinct from one another.

Give them Gaza and let them make it a country.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

If Europe was subjected to a 'migration' push do you think the French would be happy to move in with the germans? Or the British to move in with the French?

Now Dana -- just what do you think happened during the Volkerwanderung that finished the western provinces of the Roman Empire -- and do you remember why that happened? Or, on a far smaller scale, the Normans going to Normandy and thence to England in the mid-eleventh century? On a large scale again, Europeans of all stripes going to the Americas -- and some did not come as volunteers, I can tell you.

There is substantial historical precedent for blooming again even when replanted -- as long as you aren't being actively prevented from doing that. I figure there's reason to suspect that is what everybody but the Israelis are doing to the Palestinian refugees.