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Israel and allies have spent enormous resources convincing themselves and anyone they can that Palestinians don’t exist.
Israel and allies have spent enormous resources convincing themselves and anyone they can that Palestinians don’t exist.
No, not immediately, and also for very different reasons. Palestinians, no matter where they end up, have a large sense of identity and continue to identify at Palestinians, be they Muslims or Christians - continuing to speak in their own dialect for example - while Israel expends enormous resources convincing themselves and anyone who will listen that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian”. Palestinians by and large do not want to leave Palestine, because if they do they would likely never be able to return - especially if forced out by the IDF.
Lebanon has already absorbed Palestinians but Lebanon has a small population that is in a delicate demographic balance between their various religious groups - Maronite (Catholics), various Orthodox Christian, Sunni, and Shi’a, among many others. Lebanon is a creation of France in order to have one country in the Middle East be majority Catholic, but the demographics have shifted (due to emigration, birth rate differences and incoming refugees) and led to various civil conflicts, including a devastating civil war which drew in all their neighbors, and the current power sharing agreement is a precarious peace while larger foreign powers still meddle there, supporting one group or another. Hisbulla for example is a Shi’a Iranian proxy with a fairly large and kind of effective military wing independent of the state, while the West funds the official yet ineffective and probably incredibly corrupt state military. Adding more people, a majority Sunni, upsets the balance further, so Lebanon is reluctant to do so, understandably.
Egypt has also absorbed Palestinians over the years, but Egypt is also very careful about accepting people whose politics are principally driven by religion, especially Sunni Islam. Not saying that all of Gaza is politically religious, but many are, and Hamas definitely is. Allowing Israel to easily annex Gaza by allowing Israel to expel all Palestinians there to Egypt would cause the Egyptian State all manner of trouble. Also the pro Palestinian cause is very well favored by ordinary Egyptians, so the government cannot simply help Israel to kick them out by absorbing them. Either way you see it, it is not in Egypt’s interests to accept.
Jordan has absorbed more Palestinians than anyone else. 60% of Jordanians are Palestinian in origin, and there are hundreds of thousands of refugees there also (i.e Palestinians without Jordanian citizenship) living there. The source of conflict between the PLO (whose leadership was exiled in Jordan at the time) and the Jordanian monarchy at the time was not sparked by the Palestinians “just being there” but rather that the Jordanian King Abdulla was opposed to Palestinian nationalism, and vehemently opposed the idea of a Palestinian state, since he always believed that any land that did not become Israel was his to rule by right, since Britain offered his ancestor all of Palestine during WW1 (all while double crossing the Arabs to offer it to the Zionist movement also). The Jordanian monarchy is not native to Jordan but rather originate in Arabia. Anyway this put the monarchy at odds with the goals of the PLO and Jordan failed to rein them in. Jordan is very receptive to Palestinian refugees though even though they are demographically overwhelmed by them, and lack the resources to absorb so many (Jordan is one of the driest countries on the planet).
Syria is in no state to absorb millions of Palestinians, although before the war they had done so.
Saudi and Gulf states don’t really give much of a shit. They are happy to accept Palestinian workers, often educated professionals such as teachers, doctors, engineers and such. Not millions of refugees.
Essentially, each country has reasons to not do what Israel wants. And two of the major reasons on top of it all is that it is what Israel wants, and it is not what the Palestinians want. Palestinians want their homeland.
I suggest you watch reviews of the BYD fleet. They are incredibly positive.
Bah Canada has no independent foreign policy. We just follow the United States.
This is all true, and yet it’s still a good thing.
The more people invest in this stuff the cheaper it will get.
I’m not a communist because I think communism is a big failure.
So is deregulation and unfettered capitalism. It’s why every time we deregulate and cut taxes, the wealth gap gets wider, life gets shitter for everyone but the wealthiest, etc…
These are the same clowns who added most of the debt (Bush and Trump tax cuts) then complain about the debt when they’re no longer in power.
You still haven’t made any sort of point.
There is a definition, and it applies. It’s unclear why you disagree.
Yeah sure.
Conservatives elect speaker who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, ancient history or climate change, wants to make homosexuality illegal, voted to overturn the election and did everything in his power to thwart it, reporters aren’t allowed to question it, but it’s those opposed who are “scum”.
Them’s Nazi words, quite literally. You really need an education.
Yeah, he’ll get trounced by someone in his own party though, like the last one did.
Mainly because all the productive land was taken from them.
The few farms and fisheries in Gaza can't produce enough for 2 million people. Especially since they aren't allowed to mechanize their agriculture, and are limited in maritime range for fishing.
And forget the possibility of trade ports…
I'm not IN your house, I just surround your house, prevent you from leaving, can cut off your power, water and food at will.
There are quite a lot of Christians in Palestine.
That's what I hear from my buddies in construction also.
Good luck out there bud!
And that other serial liar from NY.
Lol @ "ban on Nazis"
Russia doesn't care about Nazis.
And he was still elected.
They literally published a game plan for how they will capture all levels of government and make it almost impossible to lose power, in the same vein as Hungary. It's right in your face.
As I said, if you don't find it extremely concerning, you are either happy about it or you are a useful idiot.
Ok, so you are either ok with this or are another one of their useful idiots.
Read up on Trump 2025, if you don't think democracy is at stake in the US. They're planning to turn every election into a republican primary at best.
Several points:
Lots of information is public, such as your address. That doesn’t mean somebody explicitly publishing your address for the purpose of harassing you isn’t committing an offence.
Some celebrities can’t fly on passenger planes for their own safety and even that of others or the proper functioning of infrastructure. Can you imagine Taylor Swift trying to fly on a public carrier? She would get mobbed at the very least. At worst she might be putting her health or even her life in danger. Especially now that the MAGA morons are attacking her.
I find Taylor Swift bland as beige, I don’t get the appeal at all, and I think Musk is a rabid twatwaffle. I also don’t believe anyone should really get to be so wealthy. Still, there are good reasons why one might need to travel by private means without their movements being broadcast.