luckydog1
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Part of what never really gets discussed is what the whole Palestinian issue has meant in the larger Mid East. After the Ottomans got toasted in WW1 the arabs got occupiyed and split up. Not exactly the same, but before that and for hundreds of years, they lived in a situation analagous ot the USA. A huge country with travel trade and education, common language. Every Arab with any common sense wants to recreate that. None of these little countries existed as countries. Thier emipre was destroyed, occupyied and split up. The concept of Pan Arabism was formed Syrain Iraqis, Egyptians, Suadis, never gave a rats ass about Palestine or the people living there. It was the Mississippi of the ie Empire. But when Isreal was created, it became the rallying point. Which ever Arab Leader managed to lead the destruction of Isreal, pulls the sword out of the stone as it were. That leader would become the new Caliph, by divine right. the new Saladin. But none of the Arab leaders is willing to allow any other to win. That has been the damn problem all along. From the Get go, the Palestinian resistance has been trained, funded, and controled (though some have gone renegade), by opposing groups. I know I will get flamed and yelled at for this, but go study the history of the PLO and its splinter groups. Inter Palestinian fighting has killed just as many Palestininas as Isreal has. The people were kept locked in camps under terrible conditions, by the Arabs. Arab Leaders get so much benefit by working this issue it is sick. Saddam was paying per bombing in Palestine trying to derail the Peace agreements Clinton and Norway set up. By the mid 80s Arrafat had pretty much siezed controll. The current situation has evolved to Hezbollah, which is shiite trained and created, and Fatah Arrafats people and Hamas on the Sunni side. The Sunnis will never let the Shiites take Jerusalem. The Shiites will not allow the Sunnis to get controll either. The reason the Palestinans are suffering is because of larger Arab Politics. That the Palestinians were not allowed to use Ghandian tactics, was decided by Men with Guns covering thier faces, working for Governments in Riddyah, Cairo, Damasucus, Tripoli, and Moscow. And thousands were killed, who didn't want to join the violent resistance. Palestinians are considered fodder by thier own leaders and friends. As was pointed out earlier, in 1948, every inch of the West bank, Gaza, Golan, and half of Jerusalem was in Arab hands. Not a single Palestinian had become a refugee. There was no reason for any of it, except for Pan Arab Politics
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