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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (200162)8/30/2006 9:02:39 AM
From: Ichy Smith  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Anyway, what does it have to do with the idea of bringing Palestinian refugees into the new country as equal citizens with the existing Israelis? Are you worried that if you bring in 75k Sunnis and 75k Shias you are importing 150k nitro glycerin or something like that?

Shia and Sunnis hate each other, and a deal that benefits Sunnis may not stop the fighting at all. Hizbollah for example is Shia.

When Germany was reunited, there were all kinds of problems because the Russians had left one side devastated, and the Americans had helped build their side into a modern country. The disparity between the two was huge. And there were a lot of problems.

Now you want to join two diametrically opposed groups of people into a country where the attacker in most cases, will be the dominant group and the other group will surrender it's right to determine it's own future. The palestinians come from the far poorer section, without many of the things that Israelis take for granted. Now you want to slowly open the doors to Israel in some controlled fashion over many years. Unless you start by improving Palestine, you are going to fuel the total devastation of israel. Palestinians blame anyone but Palestinians for the conditions they live in. You want to open the doors before you have created the conditions that would make the transfer plausible, no matter how many years you think it would take. People seeing Israel as hugely better than Palestine, would not take kindly to a 20 year time frame. If people were more like cows they might, but they aren't Palestine must be brought up to Israeli Standards of living before not after the joining.
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