Jewish identity is filled with 3500 years of a unique civilization,
Palestinian identity is less than a 100 years.
One of them surely feels so in-confident...wonder who?
At one time Jewish identity was less than a hundred years. Did you know that? What is the arbritrary time line for identity? Why is it that many of those who condemn antisemitic rhetoric denying Jews their identity as a people turn around and deny the Palestinians theirs?
Is that the real reason there is so much cheering at the ending of aid...because that sid recognizes them as something else than just more "Arab Muslims"?
This doesn't make any sense,
You're trying to compare a 3,500 y.o. nation, to a less-than-a-century old reactionary political entity.
One of them is without a doubt a real nation, the other - merely a fraudulent welfare organization.
If You want to discuss aid please do, focus on the numbers and leave Jews alone!
It makes total sense. Every group identity begins sometime. You are using judaisms age to deny newer groups their right to an identity. What is the (abritrary) starting point? 10 years? 50? 200? 1000?
I dont believe I am attacking Jews. Insisting that the Palestinians have a right to their identity does not mean that Jews do not. It is NOT a zero sum equation.
Or do you think it is impossible to recignize them both?
The arbitrary point is 1964, the year Arafat with the help of the KGB created the Palestinian National Identity.
National identities are created by the people themselves, through decades, centuries, millenniums of being as one.
The Palestinians are ONE with the rest of the Arab and Muslim world.
There is nothing different about them, and they even say so.
I am all for the Arabs to have an Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese, etc, identity. And yes, they achieved it by invading and assimilating some of the indigenous culture into theirs.
What cannot be accepted is what the Arab Palestinians, and many other Arabs and Muslims aim to achieve, which is the destruction of the State of Israel and sending all Jews away from their homeland, period.
The second has already been achieved by Jews not being allowed to reside in TransJordan or Gaza. They could not reside in Judea and Samaria and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem for 19 years. Or Hebron from 1929 to 1967.
Arabs, themselves were confused. They were one evening Jordanians, the next day Palestinians in 1967.
So, they ask, what are they? Since when?
They wanted to be Syrian, and part of Greater Syria.
Arafat decided they would call themselves Palestinians (why not take the identity, since the Jews threw it away? )
But what makes a Palestinian?
So far, their main identity is hatred of Israel, its destruction and killing or making the Jews go away.
That is their school curriculum, that is what they hear on a daily basis.
THAT is their identity, nationality.
Seriously????
There are thousands of tribes, nations and countries in the world and NOT ONE identifies itself by the alleged loss and occupation the Palestinians have crafted their Nationality into since 1964.
And there will never, ever be another one.
They receive the most aid than any other people. Why should they?
Why should a people whose identity was created as a way against another people be given the amount of money and help they keep receiving, in order to keep trying to destroy those people, that country?
Yes, the world is upside down, but the Arab/Muslim/Palestinian world is exactly where it is supposed to be.
Opposing Jewish sovereignty of any piece of Muslim conquered land.....at any cost.
It does not cost the Arab leaders anything. They keep gaining more and more money, more and more wealth. The people are the ones to pay, because they pay both ways.
In the education they get, and in the way they are used to achieve what their leaders want them to achieve.
So, let us keep on giving them money, and more money. The EU, Iran, Qatar and others definitely intend to continue their help.
Help the education of hatred. The education of helplessness and hopelessness.
I am astounded that Tibetans, and many others have not copied this idea.
Wait, they do not get Millions and Millions for rockets, weapons, and an education of hatred towards they people who are actually occupying their land and not allowing them to be sovereign of their own destiny.
Who are the Palestinians?
And why do they deserve to get Billions which they abuse and misuse in their need to destroy a country and a people?