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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William B. Kohn who wrote (16134)	5/19/2001 8:39:53 PM
From: gancho	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 30051

no Im no expert on the subject. But it seems like you wuold like to see all the arabs leave the planet.

To: William B. Kohn who wrote (16134)	5/19/2001 8:56:07 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 30051

William, while correct, it is a little more complex than that. It is right that the number of Palestinian refugees created by the 48 conflict is pretty close to the number of Jewish refugees kicked out from Arab countries in the years 48 to 50 or later. The Arab countries where these Palestinian refugees landed back (from which actually, a great majority immigrated to Palestine in the 70 years prior to 48, because of the availability of work created by the development of the land), refused to "reabsorb" them the way Israel absorbed and settled its Jewish/Arab refugees. The reason was not some malevolence, it was politics and sheer stupidity. The Soviet Union needed for its own political purpose a keg of dynamite in the region, and settling the refugees on both sides would not have helped, thus, Egypt, let its Palestinian refugees in squalor in the Gaza strips in camps, and other camps were spread elsewhere (Lebanon, Jordan etc.). Only Jordan granted its Palestinian refugees citizenship (after Abdallah annexed the land that was supposed to be a Palestinian Arab independent state). If the Palestinian had a worthwhile leadership, they would have seen how they were used by the Soviets as pawns in the international struggle for middle eastern oil, and would have accepted the State offered them prior to 48. Well, they did not. Until they get a worthwhile leadership, they are going to miss time after time opportunities for independence and dignity, and the more time lapses, the less they end up with. Zeev