Or if Israel wasn't busy killing thousands of Palestinian civilians, assassinating political leadership and choking the ambitions of Palis.
"Democracy" is not welcomed in those parts of the world. Simply because they have their own cultures. Don't know how much more I can explain this.
I agree with the part in bold, no explanation needed.
The greatest threat to the Palestinians and to the Arabs as a whole has always been, and continues to be, themselves.
Far more Arabs have been violently killed by fellow Arabs than by Jews. Syrians have killed more of their fellow Syrians in their civil war than have been killed by Jews since the establishment of Israel.
When the Arabs stop killing themselves in religious or power struggles they will have a chance for a stable Middle East.
15,000 Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and disputed territories have been killed in the last 64 years Including WAR. Most of them militants, Israel targets militants, who hide among civilians against their will. Palestinians have primarily targetted civilians.
1 week in 1970, jordan, 20,000 palestinians murdered, one of many massacres. Hundreds of thousands murdered over the years in Lebanon, syria and jordan. Thousands killed in shite vs sunni clans fighting amongst themselves... Israel is the problem?
Jordan occupied palestinian land as per the british 2-state solution until 1967.
Egypt occupied the Gaza as per british 2-state solution strip until 1967.
Neither of which belonged to either party.
Both nations (among others) vowed to help the palestinians eliminate the jews in 1948 under the pretext of establishing a Palestinian state in the very territory they secured for themselves and occupied.
Why did they keep their land, ration food so tightly that many starved to death, make them live in tents, and kill whoever protested until 1967, all the while claiming the land to be their own?
Werent they supposed to liberate all of Palestine?
The truth is, Egypt saw southern palestine/israel as their land not even acknowledging the existence of "palestinians" at the time. Jordan did the same. Arabs in the area where palestine was, claimed that the Land belongs to Syria, and so do they. Syria declared that Lebanon and Jordan never has existed and should be part of Syria.
All of these countries were at eachothers throat as usual, with only their mutual hatred of jews keeping them from destroying each other. If they would have defeated Israel, we would have seen a colossal Syria vs Jordan vs Egypt war in the middle east with other neighbouring countries likely joining in to claim the land that they all thought was theirs.
Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity from Syria. Arabs were actually insulted at the concept of a country named Palestine. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:
We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.
In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine:
There is no such country as Palestine! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.
The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said :
"Palestine was part of the Province of Syria."
and that,
"politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity.
A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council:
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
As you can see they all claimed the land to be their own at one point or another, yet. The British were never blamed for stealing anyones land, the Palestinians were never blamed for stealing Syrian Land, the palestinians never blamed jordan or egypt for stealing and occupying their Land. All of these populations lobbied for land, borders and countries prior to after 1917. The British and the League of Nations held ultimate decision power to divide these lands.
But
The only one guilty of theft, is Israel.
