17th April 2003, 12:04 PM
No, it wasn't. Israel didn't take over the whole Middle East like we took over all of the US. They took one small country.
And you know what? If the Arab nations had WANTED to make this problem (the Palestinians) go away it would have been VERY easy. What do you do? Disband the "refugee" camps. Help the Palestinians integrate into their societies. There is plenty of space for them... but they don't want that. The Arab nations want the Palestinians to be seperate and and perpetually angry at Israel... and of course it's worked perfectly.
Israel is harsh sometimes, and does almost certainly have some nuclear weapons, but it seems ok to me because if they weren't as tough they would have been overrun (or would be flooded with suicide bombers and hijackers) many years ago...
And you know what? If the Arab nations had WANTED to make this problem (the Palestinians) go away it would have been VERY easy. What do you do? Disband the "refugee" camps. Help the Palestinians integrate into their societies. There is plenty of space for them... but they don't want that. The Arab nations want the Palestinians to be seperate and and perpetually angry at Israel... and of course it's worked perfectly.
Israel is harsh sometimes, and does almost certainly have some nuclear weapons, but it seems ok to me because if they weren't as tough they would have been overrun (or would be flooded with suicide bombers and hijackers) many years ago...