falah wrote on Mar 12
th, 2012 at 7:56am:
freediver wrote on Mar 11
th, 2012 at 10:31pm:
Usually in a war it is up to the losing side to decide when to end hostilities. For some reason a lot of people get this backwards for palestine - that because they are losing so badly there is no need for them to surrender and they are somehow not complete idiots for continuing to fire rockets into Israel. By Islamic standards (wholesale rape and enslavement) they are getting pretty good treatment.
You have forgotten one group in your equation. The Arabs. Palestinians are Arabs. Israel is performing a balancing act. On the one hand persecuting the Palestinians, on the other hand trying not to persecute too much in case they cause revolutions that topple the friendly dictators installed by the Zionists in the region.
Arrogant Israelis will push their limits too far one day, and 300 million Arabs will be heading their way.
And this time it will be a glorious Islamic victory? Or will the Israelis just mow them down once more and take a few more chunks of Palestine for good measure? I am starting to sound like Abu and his 'passive expansion' theory of Islamic warmongering.
Quote:Firstly, Palestine had no government at the time, it was under mandate. Secondly the mandate administrator, the British, declared their immigration illegal. You lose on both fronts.
Did they do anything about it?
Quote:Firstly no such entity as Israel existed at the time. When you can get that through your thick head, get back to me.
Yes but I am sure you know where Israel is even if the boundaries weren't around at the time.
Did the league of nations set limits on how many Jews were allowed to migrat to Israel?
Quote:Of course many Zionists will be at ease with the issue, since they have something to gain by it. Muslims & Christians only have something to lose, so of course they'd not be at ease with it
Yet they happily bring it on. I am not aware of many Christians trying to justify lobbing rockets at Israel then complaining when their house gets blown up. They are probably wishing they were living in Israel.
Quote:Any illegal entity attempting to overrun someone elses country of course seeks peace, since peace would legitimise their illegal presence. Any people being overrun by said illegal entity, would of course never accept it.
Yes they would Abu. This is the history of the world. All national borders that have ever existed were established by a process that the losers consider illegal. Only the Muslims continue fighting and getting themselves killed long after they have lost the war. Plenty of other countries have gone on to even greater prosperity in a very short time - by accepting the things you claim people cannot accept. The Germans refused to accept the outcome of WWI and the loss of territory. SO they went on to lose another war. After WWII the Germans and Japanese got over it pretty quickly and were much better off as a result. But neither of these countries would have been stupid enough to carry on like the Paletinians and lob rockets into Alsace for decades, bringing endless misery to themselves - even though they were treated far worse.
Quote:The fact you can't see why this is the case fd says a lot.
I can see that Muslims are sore losers and will suffer for an eternity for it. I cannot see that this is universal.