un palestine vote, 1947

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'd figured no one would reply...

it's odd, tho. you look at how things have been done, and how they've gone since the brits first made this move. the euro's certainly have managed to get most of the fighting to occur away from their shores these days. it's mostly confined to the middle east. was that the plan all along? or just an unintended outcome?
why has israel been able to keep all the land for itself all these years, if all along it was supposed to be a split?

Israel doesn't have all the land. The Palestinians have plenty of land.

By the way, if the situation was exactly the opposite, every single person in the world would be on Israel's side. Israel has less than 1 % of the land in the Middle East. Can you imagine if the situation was reversed? Let's pretend Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and all of those countries were Jewish states and then you had this tiny little Muslim country called Israel. And then let's suppose you had some Palestinian Jews. Under that circumstance, do you think anybody would suggest that Israel (being a Muslim state in my hypothetical) should give land to the Palestinians Jews? It would be laughable to even suggest that anyone would be against Israel if Israel was a tiny Muslim state surrounded by all Jewish states. Nobody would be suggesting that Israel had too much land and should give some away, if Israel was a tiny Muslim state surrounded by Jewish states.