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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
What should they have done then Cow instead?
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Aw, what a loaded question. Fortunately, I've got a loaded answer or an answer that some might think is a load of something else.
Don't you wonder what would have happened if the UN had done NOTHING and the British had simply left, leaving behind a country called Palestine with Arabs and and the established Jewish insurgency facing off against each other?
Don't you ask yourself how the history of that region, perhaps the political history of the planet, might be different today versus what we've seen?
Would the Soviets and Americans have engaged in endless proxy conflicts in this region during the Cold War as an example, or would one side or the other have dominated and how would that have impacted history?
For 50 years, Muslim leaders have been able to divert the attention of their citizens away from themselves for a cause that could have easily been settled long ago with a Palestinian homeland, the very boundaries they will probably settle for anyway. Without Israel to blame, would we have seen Muslim cultures still stuck in a time warp the last 50 years, only now seemingly emerging, or would we have seen an age of enlightenment and the culture of compassion Muslims claim to own?
As Dennis Miller famously opined a few years ago: "What the fata have Muslims done lately?" Do you blame that stagnation on Israel? Have Muslims been so diverted by attention and hatred to the Israeli situation that they've sat wallowing in their misery? Or was this a problem for that culture since the Crusades?
In Israel today, Arabs and Jews, I think, are roughly equal demographically and seem to live together in relative harmony. Maybe we would have been surprised after a bit of early bloodletting if they'd simply been left to their own devices.
Aren't Muslims angry that Israel was imposed on the region? Would they be just as angry if the Jews already resident in British Palestine had stomped the Muslims and simply taken over the area?
Or would the Jews, already in open agitation for a homeland in Palestine, have been obliterated by their neighbours . . . .
Don't you wonder if the answer to your queston might have been . . . . "do nothing."
Having said all that, history is what it is and Israel is a fact and its not going away. Time for Palestinians, who DO have their own land and the prospect of their own country, along with their Muslim brothers, to settle up and get on with life.
Cowperson