The Middle East Peace Process

[Bricktop]

The settlements are a bargaining chip when the Lieberman Plan is implemented.

Of course.



Thousands of Israeli families are going to surrender their homes for the Arabs.



 :001_rolleyes:

[Bricktop]

Israel has very good relations with Moscow.

So did the Ukraine.

[Gaon]

The settlements are a bargaining chip when the Lieberman Plan is implemented.

Of course.



Thousands of Israeli families are going to surrender their homes for the Arabs.



 :001_rolleyes:

The settlements near the border will become part of Israel, and Israel would cede The Triangle. Both Israel and Palestine would become more homogeneous. It's the only workable plan.

[Gaon]

Israel has very good relations with Moscow.

So did the Ukraine.

Not true.

[cc]

Actually, I believe  they did when their in-effect puppet was in control



That went all to shit when he was tossed out

[Anonymous]

I thought that for most of Ukraine's modern history, they were forced to have good relations with Moscow. Much to the vexation of ordinary Ukrainians.

[Anonymous]

I recorded a documentary called The Hill Tops. It's about Israeli settlers who built homes in the West Bank.

[Anonymous]

Muslims will never be happy sharing their part of the world with anyone other than muslims.

[Bricktop]

Muslims will never be happy sharing their part of the world with anyone other than muslims.

And how's that working out for them so far???

[cc]

This getting off the OP but not surprising

Muslims will never be happy sharing their part of the world with anyone other than muslims.

And how's that working out for them so far???

Purity is maintained



Scouse should take notes on how they do it

[Anonymous]

This getting off the OP but not surprising

Muslims will never be happy sharing their part of the world with anyone other than muslims.

And how's that working out for them so far???

Purity is maintained



Scouse should take notes on how they do it

 ac_toofunny

[Bricktop]

This getting off the OP but not surprising

Muslims will never be happy sharing their part of the world with anyone other than muslims.

And how's that working out for them so far???

Purity is maintained



Scouse should take notes on how they do it

Oh, yes. Muslim unity is a model for us all.



Iraq invades Kuwait, and Iran.



Turkey has troops in Iraq and Syria.



Syria is a basket case.



Saudi Arabia is fighting Yemen.



Palestinians divided between Hamas and the PLO.



The UAE has declared Oman a traitor to the Arab cause.



At least Jordan seems to be stable and peaceful...for now. Rumblings are growing that they want to throw their King out.



Oh, yes...the world of Arabia is a sea of peace, harmony and enlightenment...

[Gaon]

Britain is responsible for the Israel-Palestine conflict. Britain cut away 77 percent of its mandate over Palestine earmarked for the Jews and gave it to Abdullah in 1922, creating the new country of Trans-Jordan or Jordan, as it was later named.



The Arabs' hatred of the Jewish State has never been strong enough to prevent the bloody rivalries that repeatedly rock the Middle East. These conflicts were evident in the civil wars in Yemen and Lebanon, as well as in the war between Iraq and Iran, in the gassing of countless Kurds in Iraq, and in the killing of Iraqis by Iraqis.



The manner in which European colonial powers carved out political entities with little regard to their ethnic composition not only led to this inter-ethnic violence, but it also encouraged dictatorial rule as the only force capable of holding such entities together.

[Bricktop]

Interesting.



Yet what claim did the Jews have on ANY of British Palestine?

[Gaon]

Interesting.



Yet what claim did the Jews have on ANY of British Palestine?

The Balfour Declaration of 1917, promising British support for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine.



In fact, before local Jews began calling themselves Israelis in 1948 (when the name "Israel" was chosen for the newly-established Jewish State), the term "Palestine" applied almost exclusively to Jews and the institutions founded by new Jewish immigrants in the first half of the 20th century, before the state's independence.



Some examples include:



The Jerusalem Post, founded in 1932, was called The Palestine Post until 1948.



Bank Leumi L'Israel, incorporated in 1902, was called the "Anglo-Palestine Company" until 1948.



The Jewish Agency – an arm of the Zionist movement engaged in Jewish settlement since 1929 – was initially called the Jewish Agency for Palestine.



Today's Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1936 by German Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, was originally called the "Palestine Symphony Orchestra," composed of some 70 Palestinian Jews