Reply #40: Yeah well...

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I don't think its fair that you pull that stuff out of your head when I have to google everything so I should get a "Special Olympics" dispensation and always be declared a winner just for participating.

Two things...

1) Eventually the West Bank and the East Bank will seek to be one state and I don't think that is going to go over well with the other Arab states in the region.

2) I try not to discuss the history of "Palestinians" as a people because it is thorny and leads easily to right wing hyperbole but it is pretty clear that there really is no such thing as a "Palestinian" although I find the argument moot, old fashioned and a little creepy. There is a large group of people who want to rule themselves and aren't allowing anyone else to do so. This makes them, in effect, a nation.



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I have always understood the 1948 partition to mean that Trans Jordan was to be the Arab half of Palestine.

My favortie irony: When the PLO was trying to overthrow the King of Jordan and Syria was supporting the PLO, Hussein asked Golda Maeir for air support (thru British back channels). She declined because she felt Arafat was a more reasonable person to deal with. It seems she was wrong in that assesment.


Of course, Asad used the skirmish to ascend to the head of the Baath party in Syria and Hussein killed around 3,000 Palestinian fighters and exiled the PLO to Lebanon where they promptly began to fuck it up.

In retaliation for Jordan massacering so many people, the PLO killed Israeli Olympic athletes. Because that makes sense.