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1 posted on 08/10/2009 9:48:53 AM PDT by ventanax5
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The European nation-state model and the post-Ottoman Middle East never really worked out as planned.


2 posted on 08/10/2009 9:57:58 AM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

3 posted on 08/10/2009 10:04:02 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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Yes, of course it is. But Jordan doesn't want the "palestinian" Arabs, they just stripped those living in Jordan of their Jordanian citizenship. In the name of peace, of course.

4 posted on 08/10/2009 4:09:51 PM PDT by SJackson (the number-one job facing the middle class...a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs)
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The past is ever-malleable in the service of current agendas.

Yes, that apparently is a core "principle" of just about every despotic regime and despotic movement, not only in the Arab world, although Arabs are notorious for it.

It's sometimes referred to as "revisionist history," and it's even infiltrated the US through leftist politicians and deteriorating education.

5 posted on 08/10/2009 5:29:27 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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“Posthumously Arabizing these Jebusites presumably establishes an Arab claim to Zion. “

especially when a willing world needing oil is appeasement minded.


9 posted on 08/11/2009 8:19:30 AM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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