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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy
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.
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".
The question cannot be answered, as it is full of incorrect assumptions in the first place.
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...ty//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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Sto...991004,00.html
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. |
Was my question condescending? OK, I'll rephrase my question, why don't their neighboring Islamic brothers help in a greater capacity, other than provide weapons and bombs? Keep your barbs coming AK, I know how important it is for you to belittle others, I guess it makes you feel better.
I was trying to find out more on this ongoing nightmare, and I am puzzled, AK, you said the west gave away their land? It sounds more like Great Britain gave the land away, and Israel kicked the crap out of the Arabs, you know, the ones that were fighting with the Palestinians that are separate yet united.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli...inian_conflict
This violence and the heavy cost of World War II led Britain to turn the issue of Palestine to the United Nations. In 1947, the U.N. approved the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Palestinian Arab leaders supported by the Arab League rejected the plan and the next day, a civil war started in Mandatory Palestine. Jewish and Palestinian Arabs fought against each other. Arab foreign volunteers entered Palestine to fight with the Palestinians and when Haganah took the offensive on April 1948, the Palestinian society collapsed and a massive exodus started.
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Five Arab League countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq) intervened in the conflict, launching the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. As a result of this war, Israel captured territory that changed its borders, but left Jerusalem a divided city. In the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and East Jerusalem including the Old City and its holy sites, which Israel annexed and reunited with the Western neighborhoods of Jerusalem. The status of the city as Israel's capital and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were to remain sources of bitter conflict.