Arctish
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No. When you go back far enough you find Muslims in charge, the Jews and Christians second class citizens.
Apparently you never researched the Ottoman Empire and how Jews lived under the Turks. If you had you would know that Istanbul was a place of refuge for European Jews where their culture and communities flourished. Yeah, they had to pay an extra tax, and they had to say Islam was super awesome. But for the most part, that was it.
The Jews in Palestine lived side by side with their Christian and Muslim neighbors, and endured the same bureaucracy, bad weather, and bandits as everyone else. And they married their neighbor's kids, just as their neighbors married theirs.
That's really driving this--the closest parallel in history is a slave revolt. The creation of Israel was a successful slave revolt, it's no wonder the Muslims went ape.
You keep using this slave revolt comparison even though the Jews in Palestine weren't the slaves of the Palestinians - they were family. I realize it sounds dramatic, but given the context it also sounds absurd. If the Jews were anyone's slaves, it was the Europeans'. The Palestinians had nothing to do with it.
Arafat's counter proposal was to stick with the Oslo Accords, and not replace them with an inferior substitute.
1) Arafat had already abandoned Oslo.
2) Oslo was never meant to be an answer.
^^ Bald-faced assertions that have nothing to do with the actual history and everything to do with promoting a line of propaganda.
1) Arafat never abandoned Oslo. He went to Camp David to insist the Oslo Accords be followed.
2) The Accords were a step-by-step process of disengagement. As such, it was the answer to the failure of the Israelis and Palestinians to come to terms. Unfortunately, a Zionist extremist killed the only Israeli Prime Minister willing to give it a try, and no Prime Minister since has had the fortitude to even suggest what was proposed in the Accords.
Israel reneged on it's obligations. You know this. You know Israel refused to hand over land it had agreed to hand over. You know Barak insisted on a new agreement that didn't go nearly as far as what had been agreed to at Oslo. You know what Barak offered Arafat was a handful of shit. Or at least, you used to.
Have you forgotten that Netanyahu boasted he, personally, was the one who sabotaged the Oslo Accords? Why won't you take Bibi at his word? You believe everything else he says. Why not this?
I've seen that video--it doesn't say what you claim. He said he knew it would fail, not that he caused it to fail.
No, he was very specific about what he personally did to sabotage the Accords. He talked about specific conditions he insisted be put in place, then says "Why is this important? Because from that moment on I stopped the Oslo Accords". He's taking full credit for the failure of the Accords, and he's proud of it.
So why don't you believe he is telling the truth? You believe everything else he says he did. Why don't you believe him this time?
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