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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11709)1/23/2006 2:22:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 32591
 
The Palestinians just didn't have the ability for create a unified governmental body in the manner that the Israelis did. They didn't have the cultural background for democratic self-government, and any government would merely have reflected the ability of one tribe to dominate the others.


The Palestinians did have one acknowledged leader post WWII - the Mufti. Unfortunately for them, he was a Nazi, and Nazis were, shall we say, out of fashion in the late 1940s.
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