Another Round Begins in The Middle East

[DinoDoc]

I hate to say it but DinoDoc is right. Deportation, like what happened to the Germans in the east & in Sudetenland after WW2, is the long term solution.

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[Naked Gents Rut]

I never said that.

I didn't think you did; it was TCO and myself. Apparently Oerdin can't manage to be completely right even when he parrots the positions of his intellectual superiors.

[Traianvs]

They're Arabs. There's plenty of Arab countries out there.

Your astounding ignorance gives other rightwingers a bad name

[Naked Gents Rut]

I'm "ignorant" because I think Palestinian Arabs are Arabs?

[chequita guevara]

That's like saying it would be okay to expel Spaniards from Spain because there are other European countries. Pan-Arab nationalism is a spent force. The West has successfully destroyed that movement.

If expulsion is the only solution, it should be the foreign invaders, aka, the Israelis who should be forced to return to their homes, not the natives.

[Naked Gents Rut]

That's like saying it would be okay to expel Spaniards from Spain because there are other European countries.

I didn't know they spoke Spanish in the rest of Europe.

If expulsion is the only solution, it should be the foreign invaders, aka, the Israelis who should be forced to return to their homes, not the natives.

You expel the losers, not the winners. The Arabs had three chances to kick the Jews out. They failed. Palestine belongs to the Jews now.

[chequita guevara]

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That's like saying it would be okay to expel Spaniards from Spain because there are other European countries.

I didn't know they spoke Spanish in the rest of Europe.[/q]

They speak Portuguese, Italian, French, and Romanian, all languages which are about as similar as the various dialects of Arabic from one another.

If expulsion is the only solution, it should be the foreign invaders, aka, the Israelis who should be forced to return to their homes, not the natives.

You expel the losers, not the winners. The Arabs had three chances to kick the Jews out. They failed. Palestine belongs to the Jews now.

They never had a chance, since every war but one was a sneak attack by the Israelis. The only war in which an Arab victory was possible was 1973, and that was only possible if Egypt didn't try to extend itself past the cover of its air defenses, which would have been a very limited victory.

[Naked Gents Rut]

They speak Portuguese, Italian, French, and Romanian, all languages which are about as similar as the various dialects of Arabic from one another.

You do know that there's a Standard Arabic taught in schools throughout the Arab world, don't you?

At any rate, even if you want to be obtuse and pretend that different dialects of Arabic are as different from each other as the Romance languages, it's still possible to deport the Palestinians to Arab states where the predominant dialect matches their own.

They never had a chance, since every war but one was a sneak attack by the Israelis.

Not only is this not factually correct, but it wouldn't even matter if it was. The Arabs would still be losers and it makes no sense to reward incompetence and stupidity.

[Traianvs]

You do know that there's a Standard Arabic taught in schools throughout the Arab world, don't you?

At any rate, even if you want to be obtuse and pretend that different dialects of Arabic are as different from each other as the Romance languages, it's still possible to deport the Palestinians to Arab states where the predominant dialect matches their own.

But nobody will have them. Lebanon and Jordan have already been destabilized due to the millions of Palestinian refugees. It's like saying to the Flemish in Belgium we need to be deported to the Netherlands so the Walloons can peacefully live here.

We speak Dutch too, but we're nowhere near the same as the Dutch, and neither we nor the others would want it, let alone the immense economic, social and political problems that would accompany such a deportation.

You guys have lost touch with reality

[Naked Gents Rut]

We speak Dutch too, but we're nowhere near the same as the Dutch

Of course not; the Dutch are much better than you. They have a glorious history as a military, trading and cultural power. You just have a bunch of African blood on your hands.

[Zkribbler]

They never had a chance, since every war but one was a sneak attack by the Israelis.

As I recall:
1948 War -- Arabs are the aggressors.
~56 Suez Crisis - Egyptians grab the Suez Canal; Brits, French and Israelis counter attack.
Six-day War -- Israelis launch a pre-emptive war, when Egypt, Syria and Jordan vow to destroy Israel.
Yon Kippur War -- Arab sneak attack.
There's been Israeli incursions into Lebanon.
Gaza Conflict -- Israelis counterstrike after Hamas launches missiles into Israeli cities.

[Traianvs]

We speak Dutch too, but we're nowhere near the same as the Dutch

Of course not; the Dutch are much better than you. They have a glorious history as a military, trading and cultural power. You just have a bunch of African blood on your hands.

Your argument makes no sense at all. The Dutch extorted their colonial subjects as much as Belgians did. Every colonial power did. What is your point?

[Naked Gents Rut]

My point is that the Dutch managed to build a much more impressive empire with far less bloodshed than the Belgians did. They're obviously a superior people.

[Traianvs]

Meh, those noobs failed to conquer us properly. Even the Spaniards managed to annex our little piece of land. They're nowhere superior!

It might also be a good time to stop talking out of your ass for a change.

[Naked Gents Rut]

How am I "talking out of my ass"? The Belgians have never contributed anything of worth to the world. That's a fact.