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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (400)	4/27/2001 10:54:04 AM
From: David Alon	Respond to of 2279

It's a pity, that under Arafat, the Palestians never fared so bad. I am sure ,many would love to be back under Israeli occupation then Arafat occupation.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (400)	4/27/2001 5:39:05 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

How is this going to help our problem with China?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (400)	4/28/2001 4:55:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

Re: If you're telling us all these things, I guess we have to burn all the history books (and the records from which they were drawn), and rely solely on Gustave's "Revisionist Version of World History". Because history refects all of the above. It reflects that all the current infrastructure that exists in Palestine is 90% Jewish constructed. The Jews brought the concept of irrigation to Israel and introduced large scale agriculture. Prior to war breaking out in 1948, the Jews also accumulated most of their land through financial transactions freely entered into by both parties, and they still can show the records that refect the deed and title on their purchase. And we know that Palestinians were heavily dependent upon the economy the Jews built in Palestine. Sure they were consider "cheap labor", but considering that utter unemployment and poverty that was their alternative reality, and the fact that the Jews had more than enough poverty stricken immigrants to draw from, I would say the Palestinian people have benefitted tremendously. The above scrap is precisely the perfect caption to define colonialism --from the colonialist's viewpoint, that is. It could easily be applied to the past Belgian rule over Congo, or to the French yoke on Algeria, on Indochina, or... to the British rule over Palestine. You should know better however: people, and Third World people in particular, will not trade their dignity for a loaf of bread and a fistful of dollars.... Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that the Saudis'd have already bought out the whole of Jerusalem from the Jews (rumor has it that the Saudis roll in it). As for: Now I don't know what Yasir Arafat has brought to Palestine, or why he has retained personal control over the hundreds of millions of dollars that has been provided to the PLO over the past decades. However, all he has been able to promise his people is open conflict, not economic growth. Again, the Jewish pot calling the Arab kettle black: Now I don't know what Theodore Herzl has brought to the Jewish diaspora, or why he has retained personal worship among the millions of Jewish settlers who have relocated in Palestine over the past decades. However, all he has been able to promise his people is open conflict, not economic growth. Gus.