Phil > While I am at it, Jordan, who is closest to the Palestinian problem, has in the past brought their armed forces against the Palestinians. They will not give an inch of their desert to the Palestinians, even though they are the same people.
My two cents worth. It's true what you say. In fact, the various Arab nations have done nothing to help the Palestinians except keeping the Palestinian/Israeli conflict going like a festering sore. But one cannot, in the first instance, hold them responsible for the conflict -- merely for their not doing anything to ameliorate it. And it's understandable why?
It was, in fact, the Israeli idea to "ethnically cleanse" the Palestinians to Jordan and after the Six Day War in 1966 many Palestinians, in fact, went there. But there they made a lot of trouble, tried to overthrow the Jordanian government and were expelled to Lebanon.
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>>The number of casualties in what resembled a civil war, are estimated in tens of thousands, and although both sides were involved in intentional killing of civilians. It was a turning point for Jordanian identity, as the kingdom embarked on the program of "Jordanization" of the society.
Palestinian militants were driven out to Lebanon as a result of the Cairo Agreement.
The group Black September, was established by Fatah members. On November 28 1971, in Cairo, four of its members assassinated Wasfi al-Tal. << |
