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The Middle East that could have been
National Post ^ | Efraim Karsh

Posted on 05/18/2010 9:14:09 AM PDT by ventanax5

On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into two independent states -- one Jewish, the other Arab -- linked in an economic union. The city of Jerusalem was to be placed under an international regime, with its residents given the right to citizenship in either the Jewish or the Arab state.

For Jews all over the world, this was the fulfillment of a millenarian yearning for national rebirth in their ancestral homeland. For Arab political and intellectual elites, it was a shameful surrender of (a however minute) part of the perceived pan-Arab patrimony to a foreign invader. In Jewish localities throughout Palestine, crowds danced in the streets. In the Arab capitals there were violent demonstrations.

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TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arab; british; efraimkarsh; history; israel; jews; palestine; resolution; un; wot; zionism

1 posted on 05/18/2010 9:14:09 AM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

Funny. The two state solution didn’t work 60 years ago. Why would anyone think it would work now?


2 posted on 05/18/2010 9:22:12 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: ventanax5

EXCEPT THE LORD

build the house, they labor in vain that build it.

I’ve often chafed about the idiocies of various governments and politicos re Israel etc.

However, God Almighty has had HIS HEAVY HAND on every particle of that area and those people for a long time.

He has been moving puzzle pieces toward a display of His Glory for thousands of years.

We are merely fortunate to be alive in the era of the finale.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
BLESSED BE THE WAYS OF THE LORD.

BLESSED BE THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE LORD.


3 posted on 05/18/2010 9:38:31 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Israel’s 1967 preemptive strike against the gathering storm and siege (an actual siege, not the imaginary one the pro-Arab propaganda peddlers rant about) took place in a time when Israel was a poor, primarily agrarian country that didn’t even have a broadcast media worthy of the name. Israel should never have accepted Syrian intervention in Lebanon in the 1970s, and/or made sure the Lebanese prevailed against the various invaders (PLO, Iranians, Islamofascist “volunteers”). Thanks ventanax5.


4 posted on 05/18/2010 7:11:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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5 posted on 05/19/2010 5:18:37 AM PDT by SJackson (Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: ventanax5

This could never happen because Islam is a mental illness. What do you expect from these cuckoos who are ordained to follow Muhammad’s example? Just look what Muhammad did with his life of murder invasion rape child-diddling and blood

dennisw’s first law of prophets-

The falser the prophet the more deranged the adherents


6 posted on 05/19/2010 6:36:51 AM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: dennisw

The falser the prophet the more deranged the adherents


7 posted on 05/19/2010 6:44:11 AM PDT by dennisw (The falser the prophet the more aggressively deranged the adherents)
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To: pnh102

Because now liberals are saying that it’s all the Palis want, and to pay no attention to what the Palis themselves are saying.


8 posted on 05/20/2010 12:21:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
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To: ventanax5

The Arab so called Palestinians don’t want there own state. they want to destroy the Jewish state Israel. Why cant Hussein Obama see this???? No on two state and no on Israel giving up any land for “peace”.


9 posted on 05/22/2010 9:57:30 PM PDT by citizenredstater9271
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