I find various posts here outright 'fascinating'.
It started with one poster's explanation about him losing interest in this conflict because it will never end, and that it will never end because of American public opinion which the Palestinians are not trying to win. And, of course, on his commentary about Palestinians foolishly insisting on violence to confront Israel, and this because of their perceived grievances.
Another poster then added that the conflict began in the 1940s; yet another poster (well-informed readers are not going to miss the backgrounds of the character in question) went on to explain that 'Arab marauders expelled from Jordan have no right to anything there'.
Also 'fascinating' was the post about 'Moslem world going nowhere'....
With this, 2-3 people here have explained it all - about US standpoints about this conflict, created by Israeli PR and religion-based prejudice, plus a big dose of Americans insisting on forgetting their own backgrounds and fundamental ideas, not to talk about their own involvement in this conflict and promises they made.
Accordingly: 'There is no logic in this conflict; Palestinians have been created by the Israelis, who have found "a country without a people for a people without a country"); Palestinian Arabs (and Arabs in general) know - and understand - only violence, they have never tried it with peace' and this is giving Israel 'all rights' to continue doing what it is doing since 1947 etc., etc., etc.
Anybody here who has ever heard anything about establishment of the American University of Beirut? MacMahon Correspondence? Arab Revolts of the early 20th Century? Balfour Declaration? King-Crane Commission? Kingdom of Syria? San Remo Conference? Line in the Sand...and so many similar affairs from the 1910s and 1920s?
Has any of you at least a trace of clue why Herzl created the myth about Palestine as a 'wasteland'?
Any clue why could anything of above-mentioned be 'important' in the context of this conflict?
Perhaps it would be good for few people to inform themselves about such affairs - and do so even before going into discussions about Ahkenazi Jews; Zionism; Jewish terrorism in Palestine of the 1930s and promise of establishing Israel in military and economic hegemony over the Middle East (issued to US representatives already in 1947); ethnic cleansing of Arabs (whether Moslems or Christians) from Palestine; about Unit 101 and Qibya; about Lavon Affair; the Water War; the 1956 Suez War; the June 1967 War and the war in Jordan of 1970 (both resulted in yet more ethnic cleansing);
Sadat's peace offer from 1971 and the October 1973 War; dismemberment of Lebanon...etc., etc., etc... indeed, about various truces with people supposedly not existing...
Note: and that's something like 'required' long before one would enter discussion over the topics like 'Moslem world going nowhere'...
Bottom line: ever since Truman was afraid he would lose elections, the situation for American politicians became quite simple. Express unlimited sympathies, support Israel regardless the cost, and you'll get Jewish votes. And so, no matter how 'irrelevant', indeed 'uninteresting' the Arab-Israeli conflict might be for Americans, its future is directly related to US elections - and US-taxpayer's money.
Don't like it? Well, most of Israelis and their supporters abroad (in the USA and elsewhere) don't like all of this either.
Perhaps that's the reason you don't know about all of these affairs?
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