Seamus Warren wrote:Jordan is "Palestne" so there is no need for another "Palestinian" state.
Do you think the "Palestinians" are the indigenous people of the region?
Let us put 2 things very clear here :
1) Rhetorical game-play with the word "Palestine" has no value in assigning land to it's native inhabitants . The only people who are not native is Euro-import and considers themselves Jewish .
2) The Palestinian peoples are most definetly the indigenous people of the region :
Palestine became a predominately Arab and Islamic country by the end of the seventh century. Almost immediately thereafter its boundaries and its characteristics - including its name in Arabic, Filastin - became known to the entire Islamic world, as much for its fertility and beauty as for its religious significance...In 1516, Palestine became a province of the Ottoman Empire, but this made it no less fertile, no less Arab or Islamic...Sixty percent of the population was in agriculture; the balance was divided between townspeople and a relatively small nomadic group. All these people believed themselves to belong in a land called Palestine, despite their feelings that they were also members of a large Arab nation...Despite the steady arrival in Palestine of Jewish colonists after 1882, it is important to realize that not until the few weeks immediately preceding the establishment of Israel in the spring of 1948 was there ever anything other than a huge Arab majority. For example, the Jewish population in 1931 was 174,606 against a total of 1,033,314 Edward Said in the Question Of Palestine-Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict-Jews For Justice In The Middle EastIronically, that same year, 1947, the Arab members of the United Nations supported the partition of the Indian sub-continent and the creation of the new, predominantly Muslim state of Pakistan.
Unless the Pakistani state would have been predominatly say ...... Bosnian-Muslim , there is little irony left .
Jordanian Kings have said so themselves - "Jordan is Palestine"
Appeal to authority fallacy here ?
As for the long letter , every time I see Jojo Farah Im reminded of Jack Bernstein only
without a point . The man needs a shrink instead of a publisher .
I would love to respond to the doodoo , but could you then extract some point you wish to make with the "letter" ? I mean logical respons is to give you a letter right back , now would that be worth the trouble ? I don't think so .
Efrem Da King wrote:Yasser arafat gives up power all together. Democratic gov put in place.
He
is democratically chosen and with alot more support than say ........Arik Sharon . Perhaps you should explain the new definition of democracy that you are applying here , such as zionist puppet perhaps ?