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| Peace proposals alarm Jordan: That tinderbox of refugees | |
| 2010-04-26 | |
A Russian newspaper recently revealed that NATO's secretary-general asked Jordan to help train an army that is being rebuilt in a major area of NATO operations -- quite a recommendation of Jordan's military prowess. But Jordan remains more devoted to peace than war, as the Jordanian king told The Chicago Tribune a few days ago. Asked about the impact of Iran's nuclear ambitions, King Abdullah II said that countries as small as his cannot think of having a military nuclear programme. He then went on to urge peace in the region. | |
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| #4 Why on earth would Israeli Jews want to move back to the lands of their dhimmitude, Mike? To visit, certainly. To be reimbursed for that which had been theirs, often for millenia, ok. But to live as a minority in the midst of those who'd driven them out, and hated them for returning? I don't think so, I really don't. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-26 23:04 |
| #3 I'm all for the right-of-return so long as the Jews are able to return to their land in the Arab countries they were thrown out of at the same time. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-04-26 20:29 |
| #2 In addition, Jordan has more Palestinian refugees than any other country in the region: three million in total and 1.7 million from Gaza and the West Bank alone, according to a report by UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency). ya think? The land used to form the kingdom of Jordan used to be Palestine! How can the Palis be "refugees" when they have never moved anywhere? Gaza used to be part of Egypt before it was lost in the 1967 war. So those Gazan "refugees" are really Egyptian, not Palestinian. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-04-26 20:26 |
| #1 "right of return"=suicide for Israel. |
| Posted by: tipover 2010-04-26 11:22 |