Misconceptions abound...
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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.
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Wow, you're so smoothe.
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Originally Posted by ak
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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You can say that again. On September 6, 1948, Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, was quoted in an interview with the Beirut Telegraph as saying,
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"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem."
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A few months later on February 19,1949, the Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin reported,
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"The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way for the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees."
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It appears as though these Palestinians were duped into leaving their homes so they wouldn't end up as colateral casualties when Israel was attacked in the ensuing war. When Israel emerged the victor, they didn't get their homes back. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Still, there's more.
The Beirut Muslim weekly Kul-Sahy on August 19, 1951 reported,
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"Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states and Lebanon amongst them, did it."
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The Cairo daily Akhbar el Yom on October 12, 1963 reported
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"The 15th May, 1948 arrived... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead."
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The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun on April 9, 1953 reported,
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"For the flight and fall of the other villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumose exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs... By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children, etc., they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy."
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And you, ashleykennedy, have bought into that lie hook, line, and sinker.
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Originally Posted by ak
The question cannot be answered, as it is full of incorrect assumptions in the first place.
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Speaking of incorrect assumptions...- Most of the surrounding Arab nations have also failed to absorb the "refugees" into their under-populated, wealthy nations. It appears as though the only thing in their eyes that is almost as bad as a Jew is a Palestinian.
- Following World War II, there were approximately 100 million refugees around the world. The Palestinian Arab group is the only one in the world not absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands.
- A bill was introduced in Lebanon's Parliament in 2002 which denied Pelestinian-Arabs the right to own property. Those who owned property would not be able to give it to their children.
These are prime examples that, while Israel has made numerous concessions to accommodate the Palestinians-- offering them ninety-five percent of the West Bank in 1999 as part of the peace plan--- other Arab nations continue to exploit the misery and poverty of the Palestinian people in order to justify their belligerent opposition to Israel and the Jewish people.
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Originally Posted by ak
Gosh I can feel a bit of condescension coming on.
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Get used to it.
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Originally Posted by ak
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 |
 That link doesn't work.
America gives billions of dollars each year to the Palestinians and has repeatedly attempted to broker "peace" deals which have included provisions for a Palestinian state.
- Arabs who live in Israel are treated better and have more political, religious and economic freedoms than most Arab citizens in any of the other Arab states-- all of which represent a broad spectrum of police states.
- Israel is the largest employer of Palestinians in the world. The approximately one million Arabs living in Israel can practice their own religion (unlike Jews living in Arab countries), can vote in Israeli elections and serve in Israel's legislative body the Knesset.
- Arab women living in Israel are granted greater liberty and freedom than women living in Arab countries-- where they're treated as men's property and have few, if any, individual liberties.
Yet, ashley kennedy prattles on and on about the evil Zionist state of Israel as though he were the ambassador of Palestine railing against the singular cause of Palestinian atrocity. The sad reality is, the only thing worse than dying Palestinians at the hands of Israel is dying Palestinians at the hands of their Arabian "brothers."
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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
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