Thursday, November 19, 2009
Weakness of the Palestinians
Mahmud Abbas, the President, is resigning, throwing the Palestinian political system into chaos. The legal status of the Palestinian political system has been in flux since Hamas, the Islamist party, threw the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007. Hamas had won a legislative election the previous year, but a power-sharing agreement between Hamas and Fatah failed. There are now parallel ministries and security services in the two territories. The official term of Mr. Abbas’s presidency has already ended, and the term of the legislative council is scheduled to end in January. The future is uncertain at best.
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Who ever thought we would miss Arafat? He was a devil and not really a "partner for peace" but at least he was more or less in charge. Now there is not even anyone to talk to about peace, not that they were ever really interested, unless you define "peace" in the Moslem sense of "submission to Islam".
The question is , how do you get the Arabs to lose all interest in religion and ideology, and divert themselves to making money and spending it ? In the case of the Germans and the Japanese, it required bombing their countries into rubble - this was the cure. But they were peoples who were actually interested in working.
The Turks ruled the Middle East for 500 years. During this time, no one ever heard of the Arabs.
I don't think this is what was meant by the "two state solution".
Anon.
It all started with Laurence of Arabia. The British loved the Arabs with costumes and daggers,etc. - the fantasy of every British schoolboy. Jews were so pale and studious - reminded the British too much of their actual selves and not how they imagined themselves to be.
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