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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (156201)1/14/2005 12:28:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
but still the inhabitants were human beings, with a right to self-determination

The inhabitants of the Connecticut River valley are also human beings with a right to self-determination...does that make the Connecticut River Valley a country? Obviously not.

The people have to have the idea first. The Jews had it for thousands of years, the Arabs were slower off the mark, and were impeded rather than helped by their thuggish Nazi (the Mufti was an ardent Nazi) leaders, who effectively prevented the emergence of an Arab civil society. In short, the Zionists were organized and had the idea, the Arabs were not. So when fighting broke out, the Arab upper classes fled, somewhat to the bewilderment of the departing British.

Nobody is ever going to award a nation to people who haven't got the idea themselves.

Now, since 1948, chiefly over the last 40 years, the Palestinians have developed the idea of a nation. Unfortunately for them, the quality of their leadership has not improved.
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