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Meh. A literary oversight while proving my point, Smasharoo. The fact you jumped on that aspect of my argument instead of countering it demonstrates that I am correct. Likewise, I offer concrete steps to be taken for peace and prosperity in the region while you offer... nothing?
Once again let me draw the simple metaphor here.
Someone throws you and your family out of your house and starts living in it. You try to take the house back and they kill most of your family and take your car which you had been living in.
You need someplace to sleep so you sleep in a shed. The people who threw you out of your house send their relatives to live in the shed. The relatives throw you out of the shed.
How do you react when someone suggests that you give up any rights of ownership over the house or the shed, and that in return the people in the house won't send any mro relatives to **** with you?
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It's tough to be a viable country when your Muslim "brothers" *cough cough* are intent on keeping you in refugee camps, disenfranchised, poor, politically disorganized, and uneducated, isn't it? It's tough to become a country when you don't own the land you reside on and when your Arab "brothers" hold the deeds to what land that hasn't been sold to the Jews.
Get the **** over the Arab's treatemnt of the Palastinins.
It's irrelevant.
The governments of Europe treated Jews like **** for most of the first half of the 20th century. That didn't make the holocaust any less of a big deal.
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Face it. Palestine is a convenient rallying cry for angry Muslims, but the people living there have as much actual purpose for their Arab neighbors as the poor do for liberal Democrats here in the United States. It makes for great speeches to rile up the natives, but actually fixing the problem is just not in the cards. After all, if either problem were done away with, what would those two groups have to excite their political base? Neither the Arabs nor the Democrats truly want to rid themselves of their respective problems since that is what their political power stems from. If the Arabs actually had a prosperous and successful Palestine on their hands imagine what their own countrymen might demand for themselves. And if the Democrats actually solved the problem of the poor, who'd actualy vote for them once the formerly poor realized how much money was being robbed from them?
/yawn.
That's crazy talk. Muslims want Isreal for religous reasons. Allways have, allways will. Christians too. Jews too. If anyone wanted a real peace in Isreal they'd make Jersulem a demilitrized zone run by the Chinese who mostly couldn't give a **** about any of the monothesitc western tradtions and would instead focus on building factories to make tiny drink umbrellas.
And, really, isnt' what we need in this situation more umbrella drinks? I think it is.
Maybe you should argue that Lawrence of Arabia is a bad leader for the Syrians.
The only thing maintaining the number of poor people here in the richest country in the history of the planet is the greed of the wealthy.
In politics, that greed is manifested by the Republican party. People vote for them because they want to be wealthy some day. That, and everyone understands greed.