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    Ironically, one of the immediate trade benefits Israel would gain if it ceased dragging it's feet on the brutal occupation and creeping colonisation of Palestine, and granted justice and human rights to the Palestinian people via the one or two state solution, comes off the expertise it has developed in dry climate farming. They do indeed hog all the water though- I believe in occupied Palestine the illegal settlers use six times as much water per head as the native Palestinians. Furthermore they have benefited from enormous foreign aid and investment, via both western governments and charity from the Jewish diaspora (which is massive).

    Nonetheless it has been put to good use (it doesn't all go on guns and missiles)- and presents a major opportunity for trade within the Arab world in particular, which is largely dry. This fact was pointed out by none less than the late President Shimon Peres.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    The Palestinians....not the Arabs.
    Palestinians are Arabs ent- but they are not Arabians. Why must you be such a timewasting numbskull.
    Incidentally, why then do you call the Palestinians, Arabs?
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    None of which were built by or occupied by Arabs until the 7th century CE..
    Arabians ent- the Muslim conquest right? Yes, all of those cities were inhabited by the indigenous people (the Palestinians) for centuries before that.

    And as for the rest of the incoherent post, you are a babbling idiot. It has already been disproved above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    Muslims migrated wholesale into Palestine between the end od WW1 and end of WW2, no doubt about that at all, chappy.
    If we don't argue about that, once again, you make the point that in 1948, the European Jews were newcomers and have now moved out, by force, the people that were there before them.
    Argue all you like about whose blood has a greater right to the land, (and it's not a bunch of Europeans), modern law shows Israel to be in contravention and criminally responsible for the ousting of hundreds of thousands of people if you include (and rightly so) the refusal to allow Palestinian refugees who fled the 1967 war, a right to return to their own homes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    That the Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites and Phoenicians were Arabs?
    Not exactly- they existed when the term Arab had not even been coined. But their descendants in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Syria are indeed Arabs.
    Total nonsense.
    They were never genetically Arabs, nor are they today.

    The term Arab used to describe them is a political, not an ethic designation, used to include them in a wannabe Nasser style pan-Arabic confederation.

    Arab is a very loose ethno-linguistic term, the main thing that binds the disparate Arabic people together are a common language (albeit many differing dialects, not always mutually intelligible), the Arabic alphabet (off of which our alphabet is derived) and the fact that a a considerable majority practise Islam.
    Right...except that our alphabet evolved from the Canaanite and Old Negev scripts, through to the Phoenician script, leading to Minoan Linear 'B' script. That evolved into the Mycenian script from which the Cumaean Greek alphabet evolved, through to the Etruscan script, thence the Roman script we use now.

    The Arabic script also, in fact, evolved from the Phoenician script.

    Egyptians aren't and never were ethnically Arabs.
    Yes ent, Egyptians are Arabs too, and Egypt is part of the Arab world too. They speak Arabic, too.
    Y're flogging a dead horse, dopey.
    Speaking English and living in England doesn't make a person English by a long shot, either.

    Arab, now a loose political term, nothing to do with ethnicity, as there's only something like up to 15% Arab in the Egyptians;


    "Many Egyptians prefer to call themselves Egyptians and some shun the Arab label completely.
    The most adamant "Egyptian, not Arab" camp are the Christian Copts. In a region that is overwhelmingly Muslim, the terms Arab and Muslim have become almost synonymous, despite the presence of large numbers of Christians in several countries.Most of Egypt's Copts maintain that they are the purest bloodline to have descended from the ancient Egyptians. As one Coptic friend tells me: "I maintain that I'm not an Arab. I'm an Egyptian and of pharaonic descent. The only thing that ties me to the Arabs is the Arabic language."Studies on modern Egyptian DNA support the view that neither Egyptian Muslims nor Copts are Arab. All the invasions that Egypt has experienced over millennia, including the Arab invasion, do not seem to account for more than 15% of modern Egyptians' ancestry.
    So Egyptians are not genetically Arabs, but they may be so culturally and linguistically. This was once true, especially during the post-revolution years when Nasser's dreams of pan-Arabism were very much alive. Back then, Egypt was so Arab that "Egypt" was dropped in favour of the "United Arab Republic".
    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...tural-identity

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    Muslims migrated wholesale into Palestine between the end od WW1 and end of WW2, no doubt about that at all, chappy.
    If we don't argue about that, once again, you make the point that in 1948, the European Jews were newcomers and have now moved out, by force, the people that were there before them.
    Argue all you like about whose blood has a greater right to the land, (and it's not a bunch of Europeans), modern law shows Israel to be in contravention and criminally responsible for the ousting of hundreds of thousands of people if you include (and rightly so) the refusal to allow Palestinian refugees who fled the 1967 war, a right to return to their own homes.
    Wake up man.
    Muslim ethnic cleansing and genocide's a current event, always has been, ever since Islam first raised its ugly head.

    850,000 Jews were expelled wholesale from nearly every Muslim country (except Iran,..who aren't Arabs.. and Lebanon) after 1947.

    None of them received any compensation or right of return.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    850,000 Jews were expelled wholesale from nearly every Muslim country (except Iran,..who aren't Arabs.. and Lebanon) after 1947.

    None of them received any compensation or right of return.
    And that gives them the right to ethnically cleanse Palestine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    The Palestinians....not the Arabs.
    Palestinians are Arabs ent- but they are not Arabians.

    Incidentally, why then do you call the Palestinians, Arabs?
    Where?
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    None of which were built by or occupied by Arabs until the 7th century CE..
    Arabians ent- the Muslim conquest right? Yes, all of those cities were inhabited by the indigenous people (the Palestinians) for centuries before that.
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    And none of them were Arabs nor Arabians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    850,000 Jews were expelled wholesale from nearly every Muslim country (except Iran,..who aren't Arabs.. and Lebanon) after 1947.

    None of them received any compensation or right of return.
    And that gives them the right to ethnically cleanse Palestine?
    Nope. Many Arabs, around 700,000 Arabs were expelled from Israel.

    500,000 remained.

    Today, 20% of Israel's population are self-declared Arabs.

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    From the Huffington Post (The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Breaking the Deadlock | The Huffington Post)...

    There is a need for mutual understanding to accept the obvious: the destruction of Israel or the vanishing of the Palestinians are impossible scenarios. Coexistence between the two peoples is the inevitable historical horizon.

    This entails ending the poisonous narratives delivered by leaders from both sides, ending rampant settlement construction, changing school textbooks that demonize the Other, supporting common initiatives like Ecopeace to protect shared environmental heritage... all conditions that will pave the way for peace.

    In Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche stated “Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive”. His words resonate with this conflict where the Other is reduced to their role as a hereditary enemy.
    Until then it's a stalemate: every Arab country, including Palestine but with the exceptions of Egypt and Jordan, argues "forcibly" not just for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their homes but for the complete destruction of Israel. And Israel will continue to build new settlements on Arab land as a justifiable means (read "spoils of war") for self-preservation:
    The international community considers the establishment of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories illegal under international law.[1][2][3][4][5] Israel maintains that they are consistent with international law[6] because it does not agree that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the territories occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War.[7] The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Convention have all affirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention does apply.[8][9]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...li_settlements

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    Quote Originally Posted by wjblaney View Post
    From the Huffington Post (The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Breaking the Deadlock | The Huffington Post)...

    There is a need for mutual understanding to accept the obvious: the destruction of Israel or the vanishing of the Palestinians are impossible scenarios. Coexistence between the two peoples is the inevitable historical horizon.

    This entails ending the poisonous narratives delivered by leaders from both sides, ending rampant settlement construction, changing school textbooks that demonize the Other, supporting common initiatives like Ecopeace to protect shared environmental heritage... all conditions that will pave the way for peace.

    In Human, All Too Human, Nietzsche stated “Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive”. His words resonate with this conflict where the Other is reduced to their role as a hereditary enemy.
    Until then it's a stalemate: every Arab country, including Palestine but with the exceptions of Egypt and Jordan, argues "forcibly" not just for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their homes but for the complete destruction of Israel. And Israel will continue to build new settlements on Arab land as a justifiable means (read "spoils of war") for self-preservation:
    The international community considers the establishment of Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories illegal under international law.[1][2][3][4][5] Israel maintains that they are consistent with international law[6] because it does not agree that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the territories occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War.[7] The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Convention have all affirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention does apply.[8][9]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...li_settlements
    I can scream that I hate you as much as I like, but once you punch me and steal my home, it is you who is in the wrong.

    There is no "spoils of war" when it comes to land. Not since the establishment of international law.

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    Another thread derailed.




    Israel wildfires and Arab media

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    Another thread derailed.




    Israel wildfires and Arab media
    Doesn't matter, it was a shit thread anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    So Egyptians are not genetically Arabs, but they may be so culturally and linguistically. This was once true, especially during the post-revolution years when Nasser's dreams of pan-Arabism were very much alive. Back then, Egypt was so Arab that "Egypt" was dropped in favour of the "United Arab Republic".
    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...tural-identity
    The United Arab Republic wasn't just Egypt. It was Egypt and Syria in a political union.

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    Maybe the thread title should be changed to Israeli social media is full of Filth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    Another thread derailed.




    Israel wildfires and Arab media
    Doesn't matter, it was a shit thread anyway.
    Yes, I agree. Time for one of your favourite memes to appear, Harry.

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    ^ and ^^ and ^^^^ The three stooges in concert.

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    ^

    Here's a trio of Palestinians in concert.



    Le Trio Joubran (Arabic: الثلاثي جبران‎) is a Palestinian oud trio, consisting of the brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran from the city of Nazareth. The Joubran brothers come from a well-known family with a rich artistic heritage. Their mother, Ibtisam Hanna Joubran, sang the Muwashshahat (poems that originated in Arab Spain) while their father is among the most renowned stringed-instrument makers in Palestine and in the Arab world

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    And a trio of female Yemini Israelis


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    And my all-time favourite Israeli, who likes to mix in a bit of Arabic into her songs.



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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Maybe the thread title should be changed to Israeli social media is full of Filth?
    How's about "ENT is full of shit" and we can use it as a dumping-ground for all the addled old crackpots lunatic gibberish?

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    How about you shooting yourself instead of your gob, bob?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    The term Arab used to describe them is a political, not an ethic designation, used to include them in a wannabe Nasser style pan-Arabic confederation.
    How about this term for Arab

    'Arab' means never having to say you are sorry "To expect Arab and Muslim leadership to apologize is a reflection of the West Naïve and wrong expectations of Arab culture. In the Arab world, to take responsibility and say sorry is taken as unmanly sign of weakness that means more trouble. Those who admit guilt are given no mercy and end up taking all the blame and being brutally punished. It is a norm for Arabs to deny a fact and blame others, rather than admit to the wrongdoing and apologize.

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    Israeli man claims border official drew a penis and wrote ‘Long live Palestine’ on his passport

    Mr Y'aakobi said the incident happened 'only because I am Jewish'



    A border official drew a penis and wrote 'Long live Palestine' on an Israeli man's passport, it has been claimed.

    A picture of Tal Y’aakobi's passport shows a drawing of a penis alongside the words ‘Viva Palestinia’ written alongside it, which translates to ‘Long live Palestine.’

    The 25-year-old, from Rosh HaAyin, Israel, claims to have received the unusual stamping from a Chilean border official after crossing the border from Argentina while travelling.

    Mr Y’aakobi told The Independent: “From the first moment, the guy at the border was hostile, and threw my passport in front of my face. They then detained us for an hour and a half on purpose until we moved.”

    “There was no reason to do this, only because I am Jewish.”

    Mr Y’aakobi says he didn’t notice the marking until four or five days later, and thus did not raise the matter with any officials.

    After returning to Israel, he had to order a new passport which cost him 1230 shekels (just over £200).

    The story was first reported by the Jewish Chronicle after journalist Itay Blumental from the Israeli-based Ynet News tweeted the photo. The incident happened while Mr Y’aakobi was travelling the continent two years ago.
    Israeli man claims border official drew a penis and wrote ?Long live Palestine? on his passport | The Independent

    “There was no reason to do this, only because I am Jewish.”
    Well no. Because you're Israeli. Nicely circumsized though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    “There was no reason to do this, only because I am Jewish.”
    No, because you are Israeli and your government is well-known for sending undercover agents to friendly countries to spy and commit crimes. (At least 4 have been captured in NZ alone since the bastards committed murder on the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland.

    Sorry...captured 3; one got away.

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    I think Germany should demand the return of east and west Prussia too. These german provinces, [what can be more german then Prussia?] were stolen from Germany bye Poland and Russia after ww1 and ww2. The germans were ethnically cleansed..........

    As to Palestinians? If you take a closer look at it strange things become apparent.
    Samuel clemmons [mark twain] took a round the world trip in the 1880s and wrote a book on his visits to the famous world sites. Jerusalem was one, he wrote that Jerusalem was a small town and the country side was deserted except for a few sheep and goat herds.

    Then where did all these people come from?? The Israelis we know they came from Europe and expelled from arab countries. The arabs tho? They came because the Israelis built farms, businesses and they wanted the jobs. You say lies? lets take a look at Yasser Arafat for ex. The leader of fatah who could be more Palestinian? WEEEEEEEELLLLLL he was born in Egypt his whole family is Egyptian and moved to Israel for economic opportunities. And after the jews created a success they arabs who moved in for the jobs wanted to take over and get rich. Why not that's what they've done in every other country in the region, kill all others or subjugate them and take over.

    Palestinians? there was a Palestinian brigade in Israel in ww2, it was 100 per jewish. The Palestinians were jews/Israelis. The arabs stole the name Palestineian from Israelis. Some of them truly did live there for generations, most tho came for the economic opportunities, sound familiar Europeans???

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