[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]hwh89 wrote:
I think by “Arabs” you meant “Palestinians”[/quote]
I know many arabs from Gaza and the West Bank. Not once have I heard them refer to themselves as “Palestinians.”
In fact, we generally laugh and can spot Europeans or Americans who use this made-up word. “Palestinian” translates literally to “Philistene.” The Philistense were Greek, from the Island of Crete.
Arabs are proud arabs, not some crap people made up for the media.
It’s also a dirty secret that Jews and Arabs (Christian and Muslim) lived peacefully together in what is now “arab East Jerusalem” (and Gaza and the West Bank) until Egypt and Nazi-backed Hashemite-led troops from Jordan and Waffen SS units from Croatia attacked and decided to kill the long-time Jewish residents.
Which brings back to the original point, if the “Great Powers” of the world had left us alone, us common descendants of Abraham would have gotten along just fine.[/quote]
So basically what you’re saying is that you hate all arabs and want nothing more than for Israel to expand it’s borders?
Got it.
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Fucking ZIONISTS, always trying to take over the world and plotting shit. lol
Seriously though, the whole Arab/Israeli thing is manufactured bullshit. A friend of mine, from Bahrain too, is of the opinion that the Gaza conflict is played up in the media there to take attention of local issues (like our version of the Parliament being useless, an overgrown Royal family, fucked public education, ineffective police etc).
8 years back, before I left, there were articles about the Gaza issue everyday in the local papers. Normally this would be great, except they were one sided fluff pieces designed to set Israel as another Nazi Germany and Palestine as the French Resistance. School textbooks too. There’d be poems about taking back ‘Al Quds’, Jerusalem, and dying a martyr. Christ I was lucky to have level headed parents.
All the while, the Arab League sits on their asses when it comes to aiding the ‘Palestinian cause’. Propaganda at it’s finest. Take a serious issue, cloud it with religious and cultural overtones. Suddenly it turns into: “The Western devils are responsible for all our problems, because they support Zionist pigs”. Now sit back and fuck your country over.