(07-15-2014 10:31 PM)Brokeback Flamer Wrote: Palestinians are the lowest of the low on the Arab social scale. They would look at trailer trash being a step up. It's not that they are bad or evil, it's just no other Arabs want to associate with them on any level other than 'the hired help'. This goes for the average Palestinian on the Street and the Hamas terrorists. The fact is the Palestinians are Jordanian citizens (for the most part) based on their Passports. The world should focus on Jordan letting their citizens settle in the country of their right. But you don't really want to shake up Jordan because they have a cozy behind the scenes relationship with Israel, for profit. Unfortunately, Jordan will be the next country to fall in the Middle East dominos. There are plenty of Middle Eastern factions that profit handsomely from the Palestinians attacking Israel if for no other reason it keeps their populations nullified over Israel's existence.
Israel profits from peace more than conflict. Facts on the ground prove that
The ones who have Jordanian passports do so as an accident of history, not because they share anything in common with Jordanian Arabs.
Palestinians are basically the lineal descendants of the Philistines, a non-Semitic (important) people who lived in Gaza and the northern Sinai in Biblical times. If you have a Bible with maps in the back, look at the one showing Israel in the Davidic era and you'll see exactly where they lived. Goliath was a Philistine. The change from Philistine to Palestine came with the Roman Empire, as the soft Greek "ph" was replaced with the hard Roman "p" sound. When the Roman Empire collapsed, they ended up living in no man's land between Egypt and whatever empire controlled the Holy Land. Their only sources of livelihood were fishing in the Mediterranean and raiding trading caravans that passed through. It was basically a terrible existence, and those who could would indenture themselves to wealthy Arabs in places like Cairo and Damascus and Baghdad in order to get out. In the Arab world they were outcasts and were treated pretty much the same as Jews in Europe--they couldn't own real property, they were excluded from certain professions. So like the Jews in Europe, they became the smiths and craftsmen of the Arab world. The bright kids went to school and became doctors, lawyers, and accountants. The one big difference with the Jews in Europe was that they shared the same religion with their masters, so at least the doctors and lawyers and accountants got to intermarry. Over time the Semitic/non-Semitic distinction got diluted, but everyone still remembered who was Palestinian and who wasn't. No matter how successful and prosperous they became, they were still second class citizens.
When the UK got the Palestine mandate after WWI, the area was basically deserted, something like 300,000 people living in a land that now has 8 million. The trade routes died out after Dias and da Gama went around the tip of Africa. The whole area had pretty much been forgotten. There were some Christians left over from the Crusades, some Jews left over from Roman times, and some Arabs--all living relatively peacefully together and trying to make a go of it. The Brits opened up the area to immigration in order to get it repopulated. They had a mandate to create a Jewish state in the area, but the first people to come back were the diaspora Palestinians. They were tired of the second-class citizen thing and the Arabs were glad to get rid of them. They settled first in the cities because they were city-dwellers in the Arab world. Eventually the Brits started settling some of them along the West Bank. They did not return to their ancestral homeland in Gaza because it was a hell-hole where nobody wanted to live. So now you've got the (relatively) rich cousins living on the West Bank and the poor cousins living in Gaza. One problem is that the folks on the West Bank have no idea how to farm, so they don't have much economic success. Then comes Hitler and WWII and the Holocaust, and the Jews turn up in numbers to claim that homeland they were promised. The West Bank goes initially to Jordan, which is why the Palestinians who settled there got Jordanian passports. Four wars get fought (1949, 1956, 1967, 1973) with the Jews winning each one. They keep their territorial gains after 1949, don't after 1956. Egyptians use the territory they gave back in 1957 to stage an invasion in 1967, which Israelis pre-empt. They learned their lesson in 1956 so they keep the gains in 1967. The game changer is 1973 when Arabs learn two things--their oil is a weapon, and Israel is willing to nuke them. Arabs no longer want to confront Israel directly, because they don't want to get nuked back. So they turn to surrogates--Palestinians, whom they consider worthless and expendable. Now you have Iran, an Aryan nation the wants to subjugate the Arabs in a modern Persian Empire. They start subsidizing anti-Israel terrorists in the hope of building a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" alliance with the Arabs.
That sort of gets us to where we are. So what do you do?
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