"No Arab state has integrated the Palestinians into their midst." Didn't Jordan grant citizenship to some refugees as well as the then Muslim residents of the West bank?

"Occupations are ended when there is peace." This sounds like a statement of fact; did you really mean 'should be ended' or 'are successfully ended'? Not only is the end of the occupation of Gaza a few years back a contradiction to that as a statement, but there are many others in history, such as Southern Iraq after the first Gulf war, the allies' occupation of Germany after WW I, and even the occupation of the South after the Civil War.
L. Greg G | 01.10.09 - 9:58 pm | #

Be a man, Buzz, post your comments on the main site.

Be a man.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred | Homepage | 01.12.09 - 8:07 am | #

A few random comments:

1) While everyone is focusing on the psychosis of the Arab world - we ALSO got to Gaza in large part due to the wishful thinking/self-abasement of Western "liberals" - especially Jewish/Israeli liberals.

The Israelis who perpetrated the Oslo farce - which culminated in the eviction of Jewish settlers from Gaza - were in the grip of their own version of fundamentalist messianism.

2) Sometimes occupations don't end. The Geneva conventions provide for the eviction of an irreconcilably hostile populace in a defensive war.

After decades of jihad indoctrination in Palestinian schools and media, that's what we have in Gaza.
Ben-David | 01.12.09 - 3:35 pm | #