Posted on 05/04/2008 10:37:41 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
I love your comments. The author may have some valid points, however, he lost all credibility in the very first sentance.
independence week bump
A MOST definitive work on the subject.
Comprehensive and exhaustive with (IIRC) a 150pg bibliography. Many muslim sources are also cited.
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Immemorial-Arab-Jewish-Conflict-Palestine/dp/0963624202
see post 23
Those Jews that the Arabs got along with were Sephardim & Mizrahim, native Middle Eastern Jews. They almost immediately began having problems with the European arrivals. Not even the ME Jews got along with the immigrating Jews, so enough said. Hell, they still don’t get along, so forget about the Arabs.
There’s no turning back the clock now & there’s no solution to a problem like that. The majority do want to destroy the Jews, whether actively (partaking in violent activities) or passively (providing moral support to those who do partake in the violence activities). As for those who do like the Jews, they either like only one kind of Jew & make demands that can never be met (”Throw out the white Jews!”), or have people in their immediate family who hate Jews rabidly & thus are a danger to all.
There is no point in trying to change the Arabs’ minds about Israel, the Hell with them. Israel’s well-being is what we need to worry about.
*There were some communities of religious European Jews that had come on their own & there were no problems with them, as they pretty much kept to themselves.
This kind of naive arrangement doesn't work. See Lebanon.
On the face of it, Ben-Gurions hope rested on reasonable grounds. An inflow of Jewish immigrants and capital after World War I had revived Palestines hitherto static condition and raised the standard of living of its Arab inhabitants well above that in the neighboring Arab states.
More naive thinking. Many people would rather have a rotting country that belongs exclusively to them than a thriving country that pretty much belongs to someone else. I don't begrudge the Arabs this. Jews should think the same way when they meekly accept foreign countries telling us how to run our country, for fear of America cutting off their aid & European boycotts. Better a mat of my own than a house shared, as Mizrahim say.
& so this should be no surprise:
On the contrary . . . with almost mathematical precision the betterment of the economic situation in Palestine [has] meant the deterioration of the political situation.
They have always hated Jews. But one can be relatively charitable to conquere peoples (dhimmi) who know their place. Think of Jim Crow south x5.
Bump for later..
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