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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (139637)7/9/2004 7:27:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Exactly what is your objection to my point that the competition between the Pals and Jews are inherently unequal?

My objection is that your point is extremely racist. The Pals are not backward by some law of nature. They do not lack a functioning economy and rule of law because colonial rule prevented these things. It did not; in fact, British colonial rule enhanced these things, certainly compared to Ottoman rule, and the Yishuv took the opportunity to create a functioning state-within-a-state during the Mandate.

No, the Pals lack an economy and rule of law because they have been ruled by thugs and assassins for 80 years, starting with the Mufti, and they do not repudiate their thugs but cling to them rather.

I simply pointed out given the chance to learn, people who live in the neighborhood tend to become more alike and the Jews could have enhanced this process

The Jews have enhanced this process; many Israeli Arabs are fully modern people who have no wish to leave the country. As the wall goes up, you we see one Arab border town after another fight hard to stay on the Israeli side; it has already happend in Um al Fahm.

But it is disengenuous to say the you 'merely pointed out' that the 'Jews could have enhanced' the process. You did not suggest enhancements; you blamed the Pals' uncivilized behavior on the Jews instead of on the Pals themselves. You argue with the rule that Americans and Israelis are responsible for their own actions even to the point of judging them in a vacuum, with no context; but Palestinians and Arabs are not responsible; the Israelis are responsible instead. This is patronizing and racist.
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