Leave it to our arab nationalist to twist and distort my points. Now on to point by point.
Germany is a valid example! The difference between the people of Germany and the people of Palestine is that one was briefly occupied while the other is still occupied. You gave the example of E. Germany which was under the tyranny of the Soviets. Due to such occupation, the E. Germans were not able to progress like W. Germany did. Matter of fact, there was no difference between them and any third world country. and even after they gained their freedom, the E. Germans are still considered as a heavy weight on the the unified Germany.
I know you are not aware of the situation in the Palestinian occupied territories but anyone who went there will tell you that the West Bank are a big Ghetto surrounded by a Berlin like wall that annexed big chunks of good Palestinian agrarian land. Behind the wall and in the Palestinian Ghetto, Israel created Jewish exclusive highways and and roads that cut the territory into 10s of isolated and besieged islands. And as if that is not enough, they also installed 1000+ permanent and mobile check points in these territories, and if that is not enough, they have annexed more land in there and handed over to settlements housing some of the most radical criminals this humanity ever witnessed.
As for Gaza, it has been under a complete siege since 2007 for no apparent reason but for exercising their right to elect a government in a free election that was considered as one of the most transparent according to Jimmy Carter.
That Siege prevented the Gazans from commercing with the outside world whereby any international trade is done through underground tunnels.
Now, do you want to honestly tell me that, had Germany lived under these same conditions, they would've accomplished their present achievements?
Forget about Germany, let us take the Jews! Jews in Poland were put under the same exact conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto. They were siege in the same identical way and their resistance was dealt with in the same exact way as Israel dealt with the people of Gaza, did the Jews of the Ghetto prosper?
Now let us look at the Palestinians outside of the territories. These Palestinians have relative freedom of movement and access to education and free commerce. They are considered to be the most educated in the whole Arab world, they excelled in education commerce and science.
In Latin America, they are considered to be the most successful minority and in your American universities, the Palestinians have the highest number of Arab professors while in the medical field, they are the second after the Egyptians.
These are the Palestinians.
East Germany is not palestine. One of the reasons for East German backwardness was that it operated under a backward system of economics that it shared with the soviet union. Israel is not soviet union, and if palestinians/arab(muslim) world behaved properly they would enjoy the benefits of a modern state. You would be hard pressed to explain why infant mortality in Israel is lower than any arab nation and even lower than in the US.
"Now, do you want to honestly tell me that, had Germany lived under these same conditions, they would've accomplished their present achievements?"
Germany was a great power before both world wars, dominant in science and technology with no ifs and buts. I used the example of WWII to show that if you have the right stuff losing a war will not necessarily preclude you from greatness. Palestinians and arab world in general don't amount to a hill of beans outside of oil production. That is what you need to understand first and foremost.
You need to stop pretentious crap like "
I know you are not aware of the situation in the Palestinian occupied territories but anyone who went there will tell you that the West Bank are a big Ghetto surrounded by a Berlin like wall that annexed big chunks of good Palestinian agrarian land. "
I am fully aware of the situation in palestine. Since I live in a free country I can access all kinds of info. I can go to amazon.com and order Mein Kampf or books on "evils of Israel Lobby", Jimmy Carters books, sites of David Duke, etc. "Zionists" don't prevent me from having access to info that criticizes Israel. In China, for example, Tiananmen Square protests don't exist as far as the state is concerned. They have been erased from history and if you go to google china you will not see a single reference to the topic, firewalls prevent all kinds of info critical of chinese government from being accessed on the internet. If you go and start trying to explain to people what happened in tiananmen you will be taken into a black car never to be seen again. THAT IS WHAT CONTROL OF INFORMATION IS. Let's see how much freedom one would have in Cairo going on the street and saying that Nasser was a pompous fool. Many people in that region believe that arabs actually "won" 1973 war (including you)
You made a mistake thinking that I am an Arab National! I am worse! I am a Syrian National. I am from the southern Region of Syria, a region called, throughout history, Palestine before the borders dissected us into so called countries.
I am not bitching, if anyone, it is your Zionist bitches that always bitch. They have the fourth biggest military might inflecting some of the worst atrocities this humanity ever witnessed and who comes to your media crying about how bad the Palestinians are resisting their occupation.
They are emptying Jerusalem from its Palestinian Muslims and Christian inhabitants and who do you hear crying in your enslaved American media? The Zionists!
They are annexing thousands of acres of good land and who do you hear whining in your American media? The Zionists!
They killed 1300, mostly women and children, civilians in 22 days against the Gaza ghetto and who do you hear weeping in your bitch slabed American media? The Zionists!
We are not the one who are bitching! we are just showing you the truth so that when we risist, you will not continue on being the ignorant you are thinking that what the Palestinains are doing is uncalled for.
We in the USA are geographically separated from many parts of the world. Because of this USA and because of USA status in the world there is a tendency to concentrate on what goes on in the states and largely ignore what goes on elsewhere. You would not understand it because you don't live in north america.
Palestinian issue seems like a super important thing to you. But to people in the developed world it is but one of cases of people living a miserable existence. In essence, "take a number".
If you think that by showing the other side of the conflict, we are lethen, buddy, you have been lectured and indocrinated for 60+ years. Your CNN through Blitzer lectured and inducrinated you, your Fox , through Beck, lectured and inducrinated you, your AIPAC spied on you, lectured and inducrinated you, your ADL lectured and inducrinated you, your JDL lectured and inducrinated you, your Campus watch silenced every opposing "lecture" and turned around and lectured and inducrinated you. I haven't done shit IShop! It is you who has been on a slow cooker and the Cheff is the Zionist lobby.
As for Mr. Najad, again, you are another proof of how effective the Zionist lecturing and indoctrination. Nothing of what he said is a secret.
As we are speaking right now, Ivagdor Lieberman is touring Europe, read who this man is before you talk about Ahmadi Najad.
Nobody "lectured me". Objective reality is, Israel is a modern state and arab states without oil are hopeless and those with oil are temporarily buoyed but still backward. That infant mortality statistic I showed earlier is quite telling.
This is not about "telling the other" side of conflict. I said people need to "face the music" and come to grips with reality. Reality is as follows:
Israel exists and will continue to do so, regardless of people on the arab street think. Hamas and Hezbollah can huff and puff all they want but they won't destroy Israel. Arabs tried to destroy Israel in several wars and failed every time. Starting and losing 3 wars has consequences.
Israel is a more advanced country than arab states (plus non arab persian Iran)
There will be no 2 state solution. Israel is not going to give up Jerusalem, there will be no "right of return".
Gaza is a trash can and hopelessly economically depressed.
Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah is capable of actually leading palestinians to something productive.
Palestinian "arab brothers" don't want to extend real help. Paying families of suicide bombers is not considered real help.
Any smart person would have recognized that launching rockets from lebanon is juvenile and is a road to nowhere. Also saying how hezbollah kicked israel's ass in lebanon is a bit misleading. Israel did not accomplish its goals and lost men and tanks, but considerable portion of lebanese infrastructure (including airport) was destroyed.
A smart palestinian would do either 1 of 2 things: Get the hell out
2) try to integrate with Israel. Nobody in the right mind would want "to have a right of return". Because of people like arafat that wanted sovereignty we have the current situation.
Balfour declaration originally envisioned 2 states but it was simply not to be. That is a historical reality. People can wimp and cry or they could embrace it and try to create something positive.
N.B the reason I don't like UAE's building of "world's tallest buildings" in the desert is because it is tacky and tasteless. It is also a colossal waste of money.
Germany is a valid example! The difference between the people of Germany and the people of Palestine is that one was briefly occupied while the other is still occupied. You gave the example of E. Germany which was under the tyranny of the Soviets. Due to such occupation, the E. Germans were not able to progress like W. Germany did. Matter of fact, there was no difference between them and any third world country. and even after they gained their freedom, the E. Germans are still considered as a heavy weight on the the unified Germany.
I know you are not aware of the situation in the Palestinian occupied territories but anyone who went there will tell you that the West Bank are a big Ghetto surrounded by a Berlin like wall that annexed big chunks of good Palestinian agrarian land. Behind the wall and in the Palestinian Ghetto, Israel created Jewish exclusive highways and and roads that cut the territory into 10s of isolated and besieged islands. And as if that is not enough, they also installed 1000+ permanent and mobile check points in these territories, and if that is not enough, they have annexed more land in there and handed over to settlements housing some of the most radical criminals this humanity ever witnessed.
As for Gaza, it has been under a complete siege since 2007 for no apparent reason but for exercising their right to elect a government in a free election that was considered as one of the most transparent according to Jimmy Carter.
That Siege prevented the Gazans from commercing with the outside world whereby any international trade is done through underground tunnels.
Now, do you want to honestly tell me that, had Germany lived under these same conditions, they would've accomplished their present achievements?
Forget about Germany, let us take the Jews! Jews in Poland were put under the same exact conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto. They were siege in the same identical way and their resistance was dealt with in the same exact way as Israel dealt with the people of Gaza, did the Jews of the Ghetto prosper?
Now let us look at the Palestinians outside of the territories. These Palestinians have relative freedom of movement and access to education and free commerce. They are considered to be the most educated in the whole Arab world, they excelled in education commerce and science.
In Latin America, they are considered to be the most successful minority and in your American universities, the Palestinians have the highest number of Arab professors while in the medical field, they are the second after the Egyptians.
These are the Palestinians.
East Germany is not palestine. One of the reasons for East German backwardness was that it operated under a backward system of economics that it shared with the soviet union. Israel is not soviet union, and if palestinians/arab(muslim) world behaved properly they would enjoy the benefits of a modern state. You would be hard pressed to explain why infant mortality in Israel is lower than any arab nation and even lower than in the US.
"Now, do you want to honestly tell me that, had Germany lived under these same conditions, they would've accomplished their present achievements?"
Germany was a great power before both world wars, dominant in science and technology with no ifs and buts. I used the example of WWII to show that if you have the right stuff losing a war will not necessarily preclude you from greatness. Palestinians and arab world in general don't amount to a hill of beans outside of oil production. That is what you need to understand first and foremost.
You need to stop pretentious crap like "
I know you are not aware of the situation in the Palestinian occupied territories but anyone who went there will tell you that the West Bank are a big Ghetto surrounded by a Berlin like wall that annexed big chunks of good Palestinian agrarian land. "
I am fully aware of the situation in palestine. Since I live in a free country I can access all kinds of info. I can go to amazon.com and order Mein Kampf or books on "evils of Israel Lobby", Jimmy Carters books, sites of David Duke, etc. "Zionists" don't prevent me from having access to info that criticizes Israel. In China, for example, Tiananmen Square protests don't exist as far as the state is concerned. They have been erased from history and if you go to google china you will not see a single reference to the topic, firewalls prevent all kinds of info critical of chinese government from being accessed on the internet. If you go and start trying to explain to people what happened in tiananmen you will be taken into a black car never to be seen again. THAT IS WHAT CONTROL OF INFORMATION IS. Let's see how much freedom one would have in Cairo going on the street and saying that Nasser was a pompous fool. Many people in that region believe that arabs actually "won" 1973 war (including you)
You made a mistake thinking that I am an Arab National! I am worse! I am a Syrian National. I am from the southern Region of Syria, a region called, throughout history, Palestine before the borders dissected us into so called countries.
I am not bitching, if anyone, it is your Zionist bitches that always bitch. They have the fourth biggest military might inflecting some of the worst atrocities this humanity ever witnessed and who comes to your media crying about how bad the Palestinians are resisting their occupation.
They are emptying Jerusalem from its Palestinian Muslims and Christian inhabitants and who do you hear crying in your enslaved American media? The Zionists!
They are annexing thousands of acres of good land and who do you hear whining in your American media? The Zionists!
They killed 1300, mostly women and children, civilians in 22 days against the Gaza ghetto and who do you hear weeping in your bitch slabed American media? The Zionists!
We are not the one who are bitching! we are just showing you the truth so that when we risist, you will not continue on being the ignorant you are thinking that what the Palestinains are doing is uncalled for.
We in the USA are geographically separated from many parts of the world. Because of this USA and because of USA status in the world there is a tendency to concentrate on what goes on in the states and largely ignore what goes on elsewhere. You would not understand it because you don't live in north america.
Palestinian issue seems like a super important thing to you. But to people in the developed world it is but one of cases of people living a miserable existence. In essence, "take a number".
If you think that by showing the other side of the conflict, we are lethen, buddy, you have been lectured and indocrinated for 60+ years. Your CNN through Blitzer lectured and inducrinated you, your Fox , through Beck, lectured and inducrinated you, your AIPAC spied on you, lectured and inducrinated you, your ADL lectured and inducrinated you, your JDL lectured and inducrinated you, your Campus watch silenced every opposing "lecture" and turned around and lectured and inducrinated you. I haven't done shit IShop! It is you who has been on a slow cooker and the Cheff is the Zionist lobby.
As for Mr. Najad, again, you are another proof of how effective the Zionist lecturing and indoctrination. Nothing of what he said is a secret.
As we are speaking right now, Ivagdor Lieberman is touring Europe, read who this man is before you talk about Ahmadi Najad.
Nobody "lectured me". Objective reality is, Israel is a modern state and arab states without oil are hopeless and those with oil are temporarily buoyed but still backward. That infant mortality statistic I showed earlier is quite telling.
This is not about "telling the other" side of conflict. I said people need to "face the music" and come to grips with reality. Reality is as follows:
Israel exists and will continue to do so, regardless of people on the arab street think. Hamas and Hezbollah can huff and puff all they want but they won't destroy Israel. Arabs tried to destroy Israel in several wars and failed every time. Starting and losing 3 wars has consequences.
Israel is a more advanced country than arab states (plus non arab persian Iran)
There will be no 2 state solution. Israel is not going to give up Jerusalem, there will be no "right of return".
Gaza is a trash can and hopelessly economically depressed.
Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah is capable of actually leading palestinians to something productive.
Palestinian "arab brothers" don't want to extend real help. Paying families of suicide bombers is not considered real help.
Any smart person would have recognized that launching rockets from lebanon is juvenile and is a road to nowhere. Also saying how hezbollah kicked israel's ass in lebanon is a bit misleading. Israel did not accomplish its goals and lost men and tanks, but considerable portion of lebanese infrastructure (including airport) was destroyed.
A smart palestinian would do either 1 of 2 things: Get the hell out
2) try to integrate with Israel. Nobody in the right mind would want "to have a right of return". Because of people like arafat that wanted sovereignty we have the current situation.
Balfour declaration originally envisioned 2 states but it was simply not to be. That is a historical reality. People can wimp and cry or they could embrace it and try to create something positive.
N.B the reason I don't like UAE's building of "world's tallest buildings" in the desert is because it is tacky and tasteless. It is also a colossal waste of money.
when any other time he's not been backed into a corner he's ready to talk about anything, sudden change in attitude, wonder why... LOL