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2007-08-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Liveleak: Israel "A Vast Wasteland" Before the Jews Came

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Posted by gorb 2007-08-21 06:23|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The video in all important respects is true. The Jew's error was to think they could share the prosperity they brought with the Arabs. Big time error which has taken 60 painful years to slowly and partially rectify. The Gaza isolation is quite simply the solution to that error. It will be imposed on the West Bank. Whether Arab areas of Israel will be divested to such an entity the future will decide.

Posted by phil_b 2007-08-21 06:56|| 2007-08-21 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Mark Twain and others visitors to Palestine (the historical region, not the soviet-arab "paleo" construct) noted how barren it was, devoid of inhabitants and cultures; and the cities were the same, dusty, sleepy, and scarcely populated. Truth is, Israel is a modern creation, BY THE JOOOOOOOS... Before them, there was not a pre-existing arab Nation-State, but a semi-desert, stagnant minor turkish (ottoman) willaya/british mandate, with no distinct identity.
Actually, this is exactly the same as for modern algeria, a creation ex-nihilo of the pieds noirs (spanish/italian/french colonists), out of an ottoman human & cultural desert, whose current leaders now claimed was the equal if not the superior of France before colonization.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-21 07:16|| 2007-08-21 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Ok, the Mark Twain remark is noted from the begining of the vid, that will teach me to comment before following the link.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-21 07:18|| 2007-08-21 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 It is true. Missing the part about how they were promised that land in the first place.

Usually, Israel gets sacked by some punk army, they spread out, then everyone deserts the land, then they come back, then everyone fights them about it. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-21 07:23|| 2007-08-21 07:23|| Front Page Top

#5 And it will be a vast wasteland again if the arabs get a hold of it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-21 07:39|| 2007-08-21 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Herman Melville visited Palestine in the 19th century and also concluded that the place was a barren, depressing dump.

Posted by Jonathan 2007-08-21 10:02|| 2007-08-21 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 A few notes. First of all, Israel is tiny, while yes, indeed, it was a wasteland. Second, the few Arabs who lived there *leased* the land from its mostly Lebanese owners. The Jews bought the land they then occupied.

So somebody rents a house, then a buyer approaches the owner and buys the house. But the renters claim that the house is theirs because they rented it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-21 10:13|| 2007-08-21 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Darth,
Agreed. We have the comming attractions from the Gaza strip. All you have to do is look at what the Palis did with the greenhouses they inherited.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-08-21 13:37|| 2007-08-21 13:37|| Front Page Top

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