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Originally Posted by Howard Beale
The Arab nations could've accepted Palestinian refugees from early on but didn't, haven't and won't bec it would take pressure off of Israel. The Palestinians themselves don't count for much except for that. And I've been reading that there's growing communication and cooperation between Israel and the Gulf States and I think that says a lot.
The Palestinians have few tools left: Resistance, Boycott and Iran. Ofc, I've left out the get serious and negotiate bec that's just not going to happen.
The last thing the right wing autocratic governments of the ME want is a couple million revolutionary poor people and the Palestinians don't want to leave their homes. After 1949 about 700000 did resettle mostly in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, but many have wanted to return ever since and they have never been fully welcomed.
Why didn't Israel accept those refugees though?
Jews accept Jews in Israel, but we're a small population and there's an identification of a Jewish nation. Asking Arabs to automatically accept any Arab or Muslim is like asking white people to auto-accept any refugee just because they're white.
As far as negotiate, what's to negotiate? They Palestinians have no power and nothing serious to offer. Israel knows this and is gradually making an independent Palestine in the WB impossible. Maybe this can be reversed or maybe a one state solution could eventually work, but moving hundreds of thousands of people into settlements isn't exactly a sign of being serious about negotiations.
Last edited by microbet; 05-29-2017 at 01:05 AM.