Annie
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Originally posted by NATO AIR
their leadership sucks horribly, no excuse meant. that's a reality, and the reality is poor leadership= poor people and poor futures.
here's the thing from the 67-93 era though. israel ran the palestinians like a colony. they took out the best and brightest thinkers, co-opted them, exiled them, imprisoned them or in rare cases killed them.
so you're stuck with a lot of guys who are common thugs with luck like arafat. hamas picks up the majority of the social services like education, health and jobs that the PA doesn't do because its corrupt. bush was right on that regard, the PA is a frigging joke. it needs to be overseen by the US and EU, and vetted. probably never happen, but then again neither will the victory for Israel that so many religious and nationalist nutcases in the Likud and its common parties believe in.
After Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab states in 1967, they treated Palis like a colony. Well, , that is what happens when you start a war and LOSE.
In reality the US, EU, UN, NATO cannot fix places that don't want to be fixed. Sometimes you just have to take them out. Hobbsian, but true.