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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus
I'm sure you made an inadvertent mistake in assuming Iranians were arab. You, being such the expert on the Middle East and all, would know that Iranians are Persian... not Arab... right?
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Persian, Assyrians, Parsi, yep I am aware, but that was very much the point. The way the west refers to the Middle East as all full of "Arabs", the quote marks was my way of indicating the falseness of that position.
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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus
This isn't necessarily what BB is getting at. He's simply asking why is it the sole responsibility of Israel, or the United States and/or the West... to deal with the disposition of Palestinians? I'm no expert, but even I knew that there were Palestinians in Jordan who are no longer there because they were kicked out by their arab "brothers." Why no outcry there?
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Probably because it was the west that gave their [the Palestinians] land away without asking. And the point I was making is there is no such thing as "Arab Brotherhood".
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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus
If you would be so kind as to laying aside your condescension for just a moment and answer BB's question, I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated.
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The question cannot be answered, as it is full of incorrect assumptions in the first place.
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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus
Why aren't other nations making attempts to help out the Palestinians? I was just perusing my Atlas, as so thoughtfully directed to do so by yourself, and wondered why these separate entities haven't decided to contribute land to help with the formation of a sovereign state of Palestine? (Of course, I only wondered this after gazing in wonder at all the pretty colors of the Atlas.)
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Gosh I can feel a bit of condescension coming on.
Because the main financial contributors to the Palestinians is not the US, Israel and the west, it is in fact their Arab Neighbours.
Israel is a negative contributor, that is Israel takes.
Holst Fund and the Palestinian Economic Assistance and Cooperation Exchange.
http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/mna/men...ile/PeaceMemo4
Relief web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/...256d660050cf7a
http://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/rw/rwb.n...8?OpenDocument
http://www.mideasti.org/summary/pale...-disengagement
World Bank
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/I...eportDec06.pdf
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Iran has become the single biggest donor to the Palestinian Authority, replacing the EU, according to a senior official in the Hamas government.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Sto...991004,00.html
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Arab donors are likely to provide a large portion of the funds. European officials say the European Union will promise $650m for 2008 alone, on top of member states’ contributions.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a1d8ca5c-a...0779e2340.html
Other useful web resources
The Economics of Palestine
You see SF the Arab world along with Persians have always been contributing. The US is not even in the top 3 contributors. This is why BB's question was an irrelevancy, it showed complete lack of awareness of facts on the ground. Hence condescension was quite in order.