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Thread #106771   Message #2267970
Posted By: CarolC
20-Feb-08 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
Subject: RE: BS: WMDs, Iran and Bush
What Teribus does is he makes stuff up and posts it over and over and over, and it doesn't really matter how many times you debunk his lies and fabrications, he'll just keep repeating them, and then, when someone he's doing this to stops participating, he declares himself the victor. He doesn't realize that he's actually working counter to his own agenda in doing this, because most other people can see this tactic for what it is, and they can see for themselves that he's not credible.


WHY didn't the Arab nations resettle the Palestinians?

I've already answered this one, beardedbruce, more than once.

They have no responsibility to resettle the Palestinians because those Palestinians belong in their own areas, and not in those other Arab countries. Israel has the responsibility to resettle the uprooted Palestinians. No one else has this responsibility. The United Nations and international law actually require Israel to allow the Palestinians to return to their areas or orign.

One of the problems with absorbing the Palestinians into the other countries is that, despite the racist concept that the government of Israel has of "Arabs" (ie: that all "Arabs" are the same and interchangeable), there are many ethnic groups within the larger group that we call "Arabs", and to force other countries to absorb large numbers of an ethnic group that doesn't come from there causes those countries to become unstable. Other problems are the fact that many countries in the Middle East are resource poor... particularly in terms of water. And Israel is doing everything it can to try to take water away from the neighboring countries. So the problem is compounded.

But the bottom line is that Israel is the only country that has the responsibility under international law to allow the Palestinians to return to their home areas.