>> Both actions are rooted in their people's desire for peace and prosperity, not conquest.
I've read a book by Nauom Gilad, an Iraqi who was in a Jewish underground movement in Iraq, then emigrated from Iraq around 1948 to Israel, got disenchanted with life there, and emigrated to the US.
He was a teen-ager in high school at the time, and he mentions that Israel's maps in the high school books did not show any borders smaller than the whole of Palestine. And the reason was that the Jewish leaders did not think of the 1948 borders as permanent.
I don't know if this is true or not. Do you have any idea ?
I am convinced that Israel will eventually manage to push all the Palistinians out by one way or another, regardless of peace process or whatever. In the same way that the US had already decided to occupy Iraq, and just went thru the UN charade as a diversion while it was getting ready.
>> I realize that much of this is Orwellian and difficult to take for the rest of the world.
Actually it is more Darwinian.
An American Army Colonel has written an article with a title like "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by Norvill Atkine. He details a dozen reasons. If the survival of countries and regimes follows a "survival of the fittest" sort of logic, then as long as the non-fitness of Arab countries continues, they will continue to be encroached and atrophied. Either they evolve a a better fit, or their niche will get smaller. Yesterday Palestine went under, today Iraq, tomorrow Syria. And I guess Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain had never been independent countries.
The concept of numerous independent countries that in fact cannot repel external attack is only 90 years old. But the concept of empires is thousands of years old, Maybe small weak countries are just the result of a mutation, that will disappear under the pressure of natural selection.
I think it is only politeness that keeps them in the list of "countries". They are really "possessions" or vassalties.
The settlement of Great War had not really completed. It just got interrupted by other wars. And now will resume again. |
