[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Amiright wrote:
sidenote… call an iranian person arab and you’ll probably get punched in the face. [/quote]
And this is what I was told by my then girlfriend. So, I don’t consider people from Jordan…Arabs.[/quote]
Jordan in 98% arab, demographically (although Jordan is controlled by Hashemites).
Little basic middle east lesson for Americans:
Arabs (with the exception of rich bedouins in Saudi and some other Gulf states where they are royalty) are treated like shit throughout the Middle East — second or third class citizens, at best.
Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon – bottom of the socio-economic heap are arabs.
The only place in the ME where an arabs can get ahead (and do get ahead, being far more economically better off) – is Israel, where they are full citizens, can vote, etc.
Jordan was really created to be the Arab state next to Israel, to solve both the “Arab problem” and the “Jewish problem.”
The arabs who were being treated like shit in Syria, Eqypt, et al, could have their own country, and the Jews who were being treated like shit everywhere could have their own country.
This, theoreticaly, should have worked out well.
For various reasons related to the Nazis wanting allies to destabilize England (and recruting and funding various Islamic sects — and that “Final Solution” thing) and England being chicken and not fulfilling its promises to the Jewish population of its territory, all while lying to the arabs, too, this didn’t work out correctly.
If everyone had fucking left us alone, we probably would have drawn borders about where they are now, called it good, built some hotels for rich Europeans to get un-pasty, and spent our vacations traveling to each other’s countries and fucking vactioning European women who want to finally experience a decent-sized penis.[/quote]
i think by “Arabs” you meant “Palestinians”.