Nice duck.So, when did the Palestinians lose?Israel won. That sums up the more than half a century conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. They won the wars, they won the peace, and they won the prosperity. So, it’s time for them to act like it, and more importantly it’s time for the Palestinians to accept they lost.
We have somehow gotten past the custom in war to fight to a decisive point and then have the losing side submit. Only a few years before the Palestinians began their decades-long losing streak, the Italians, Germans and Japanese surrendered unconditionally to end World War II. They left behind their failed attempts at conquest and consequently they were treated to the benevolence of the Allies and a rebuilding process that turned them into modern nations.
The Palestinians, on the other hand, have maintained belligerence and failure to even accept the existence of Israel in any meaningful way. Their Arab friends have made multiple attempts to destroy Israel and failed each time. Then the Palestinians switched to terrorism as a strategy and turned their proto state into an international pariah. This profound failure to comprehend their profound failure to destroy Israel has kept them in perpetual victim status.
Hundreds of billions of dollars in aid have flowed into the Palestinian territories. Some studies show it to be 25 times more per capita than was spent to rebuild Europe after World War II. Yet there is little in the way of progress and the standard of living is unacceptable. There are still “refugee” camps that have stood for decades. Their state of perpetual grievance has prevented them from using this largesse to build an actual state. This all stems from the failure to accept the uncomfortable and painful fact — they lost.
Middle East reality check: Israel won, and so can the Palestinians if they give up victim status
It's not so much a specific date and time as it is a continued slide into the abyss of irrelevancy.
Nice dodge.
You can cut and paste the same "resolution 181" slogans all you wish. It's a pattern of behavior for you wherein you simply deny history and / or you reinvent history to calm an emotional requirement that allows you to exist in a an imagined reality.
The so-called "Pal'istanians" are all but ignored by the brethren in their homelands of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Not a single Arab-Islamist nation will accept the political or financial burden of Pal'istanians. For that matter, nations like Egypt have resorted to securing their borders from Pali terrorists. Jordan and Lebanon are securing their Pal'istanians in internment camps to control and contain them.
While the Pal'istanians were a convenient flail used by the Arab-Islamist world against Israel 30 years ago, that same Arab-Islamist world is now eating itself alive. Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, etc., have a gee-had problem of Islamists gee-had'in the bejeezus out of Arabs. And, because you haven't a clue, the Arab Sunni/salafi component of Islamism is reeling at the prospect of the minority Shia tribe gaining ground across the area.
While the Sunni and Shia tribes will temporarily stop slaughtering each other to present a united Jew-hating alliance, they will not waste time getting back to their 1,400 year long blood feud that causes them to a'splode each other's mosques, markets and anywhere else there's an Islamic- target rich environment.
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