From now on, i will refer anyone telling me they don't understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to this article. And not just them. Can't wait to read your next post.
Who benefits from the Palestinian saga? Palestinian leadership (those who are still alive) who have siphoned off billions of dollars to themselves while living in luxury in Qatar and Turkey (while the Pals these leaders who purportedly represent live in squalor in Gaza)
One more fact to consider--the November 1947 UN Palestine Partition resolution called for the establishment of a democratic Jewish and a democratic Arab state, outlining the process for electing a representative government in both states. The Palestinian Arabs violently rejected that proposition and were later (May 1948) joined by the invading armies of the neighboring countries, run by dictators bent on ethnic cleansing of democracy-practicing Jews. Israel is still the only democracy in that part of the world.
It's not entirely surprising that Israel became a wellspring of scientific innovations, as Jews managed to make sizable contributions while confined to the diaspora. Among the most notable examples, would be the Manhattan Project which employed a lot of Jewish physicists and engineers, many of them who had fled the Nazis, and the invention of the atomic bomb which helped the Allies defeat the remaining Axis powers. The religious Jewish community in Safed obtained and operated the first printing press in the Ottoman Empire, a few decades after Johanne Guttenberg invented it. What's somewhat amusing is the claims to a unique Palestinian culture, built upon falafels, hummus and knafeh, which may have originated in Egypt or Syria, and not uniquely Palestinian, and not much else to show for 1300 years of Islamic dominance, from the 7th century conquests by tribes from the Arabian Peninsula and later the Ottomans.
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From now on, i will refer anyone telling me they don't understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to this article. And not just them. Can't wait to read your next post.
Perfectly stated yet again. Thank you.
Who benefits from the Palestinian saga? Palestinian leadership (those who are still alive) who have siphoned off billions of dollars to themselves while living in luxury in Qatar and Turkey (while the Pals these leaders who purportedly represent live in squalor in Gaza)
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One more fact to consider--the November 1947 UN Palestine Partition resolution called for the establishment of a democratic Jewish and a democratic Arab state, outlining the process for electing a representative government in both states. The Palestinian Arabs violently rejected that proposition and were later (May 1948) joined by the invading armies of the neighboring countries, run by dictators bent on ethnic cleansing of democracy-practicing Jews. Israel is still the only democracy in that part of the world.
It's not entirely surprising that Israel became a wellspring of scientific innovations, as Jews managed to make sizable contributions while confined to the diaspora. Among the most notable examples, would be the Manhattan Project which employed a lot of Jewish physicists and engineers, many of them who had fled the Nazis, and the invention of the atomic bomb which helped the Allies defeat the remaining Axis powers. The religious Jewish community in Safed obtained and operated the first printing press in the Ottoman Empire, a few decades after Johanne Guttenberg invented it. What's somewhat amusing is the claims to a unique Palestinian culture, built upon falafels, hummus and knafeh, which may have originated in Egypt or Syria, and not uniquely Palestinian, and not much else to show for 1300 years of Islamic dominance, from the 7th century conquests by tribes from the Arabian Peninsula and later the Ottomans.