Palestine voted into UNESCO, USA cuts funding

[Neil]

It would have been better if we had put Israel someplace decent, like maybe in Europe.  Maybe Poland could be Israel, and the Poles could go live with their Russian brothers.

Sadly, Moses decided to go east instead of north.

No, I mean the modern Israel.  There wasn't any obligation to put it in the Mideast on territory that was rightfully Arab.

[Sheilbh]

Settlements are being build in ISRAELI land.
Nobody is building in Gaza or the West Bank.

People are building in the West Bank.

[grumbler]

Settlements are being build in ISRAELI land.
Nobody is building in Gaza or the West Bank.

People are building in the West Bank.

Siege is just pointing out that the land you call "the West bank" is part of Israel's Lebensraum and thus part of Israel.  Only what isn't part of the Lebensraum can be called "the West Bank."

[Tonitrus]

It would have been better if we had put Israel someplace decent, like maybe in Europe.  Maybe Poland could be Israel, and the Poles could go live with their Russian brothers.

Sadly, Moses decided to go east instead of north.

No, I mean the modern Israel.  There wasn't any obligation to put it in the Mideast on territory that was rightfully Arab.

To be fair, it was rightfully Arab by means of conquest, and is now Israeli by those same means.

[The Brain]

We can't accept a small state in the ME founded on terrorism.

[Neil]

It would have been better if we had put Israel someplace decent, like maybe in Europe.  Maybe Poland could be Israel, and the Poles could go live with their Russian brothers.

Sadly, Moses decided to go east instead of north.

No, I mean the modern Israel.  There wasn't any obligation to put it in the Mideast on territory that was rightfully Arab.

To be fair, it was rightfully Arab by means of conquest, and is now Israeli by those same means.

Yeah, but I don't think that the Classical Greeks are going to be coming back for Palestine.

[Solmyr]

Should bring back the Ottomans, clearly. Give them Greece too for good measure.

[grumbler]

Should bring back the Ottomans, clearly. Give them Greece too for good measure.

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[Habsburg]

I really think the smart move is open the door wide open to the PA and welcome them to statehood.  Then they finally will have to be responsible for themselves and abide by the rules of the state system.

I agree.  The Israeli FM should sit in the General Assembly inviting the Arab League to endorse a Palestinian state on the borders according to the UN, which will mean acknowledging Israel.

[Habsburg]

Why would the US be opposed to that? It's not like it's the UN Security Council. Isn't it good that Palestine would cooperate on UNESCO goals, which are valid and worthy?

[Razgovory]

Should bring back the Ottomans, clearly. Give them Greece too for good measure.

I think the Ottomans had let the Jews settle there.  Hell, if the Ottomans had lasted longer and had sufficiently protected the Jews from the Arabs a Jewish nation inside the Ottoman empire may have worked out quite well.

It's a shame WWI came along and ruined everything.

[Sheilbh]

I think the Ottomans had let the Jews settle there.  Hell, if the Ottomans had lasted longer and had sufficiently protected the Jews from the Arabs a Jewish nation inside the Ottoman empire may have worked out quite well.

It's a shame WWI came along and ruined everything.

Oddly enough King Abdullah offered the Jewish Agency an autonomous Jewish canton within Trans-Jordan roughly along partition lines.

[Razgovory]

I think the Ottomans had let the Jews settle there.  Hell, if the Ottomans had lasted longer and had sufficiently protected the Jews from the Arabs a Jewish nation inside the Ottoman empire may have worked out quite well.

It's a shame WWI came along and ruined everything.

Oddly enough King Abdullah offered the Jewish Agency an autonomous Jewish canton within Trans-Jordan roughly along partition lines.

I think the Holocaust sorta soured the idea of Jews living at the mercy of another autocrat.

[Neil]

I think the Ottomans had let the Jews settle there.  Hell, if the Ottomans had lasted longer and had sufficiently protected the Jews from the Arabs a Jewish nation inside the Ottoman empire may have worked out quite well.

It's a shame WWI came along and ruined everything.

Oddly enough King Abdullah offered the Jewish Agency an autonomous Jewish canton within Trans-Jordan roughly along partition lines.

I think the Holocaust sorta soured the idea of Jews living at the mercy of another autocrat.

It might have been possible if the world had been more successful in reining in Jewish terrorism.  That said, Israel reaps what it has sown, and every Israeli civilian who is killed by terrorism is just getting a taste of the King David Hotel.

[grumbler]

It might have been possible if the world had been more successful in reining in Jewish terrorism.  That said, Israel reaps what it has sown, and every Israeli civilian who is killed by terrorism is just getting a taste of the King David Hotel.

[The Brain]Unless they are shot, in which case they are getting a taste of what Israeli terrorists handed out when they murdered Folke Bernadotte.[/The Brain]