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blackbootz  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BREAKING: ISRAEL BEGINS GROUND OFFENSIVE (Sources Incoming, see Comments)

    In my opinion? The Palestinians will be wiped out. It’s just a matter of time. They’re Native Arabians on the Reservation and eventually the plague blankets will catch up with them. But it isn’t the “Israelis” that started this.

Why will they be wiped out? How did you come to the conclusion that it's just a matter of time? I understand your point that they are the native American to Israel's manifest destiny in your analogy, but isn't it possible that in future generations, tensions will cool, like the issue of racism in the United States? Sorry if that was a bludgeoned example, as I don't necessarily think the solution to the conflict right now should be modeled on the American example, but why is Palestinian annihilation just a matter of time? What are these plague blankets?

PS - can't describe how much I appreciate your contextualizing this in a larger view, I took a lot of cues to educate myself further from this post.





kleinbl00  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They'll be wiped out because there is no advantage to the Israelis in keeping them around. As soon as the Promised Land ceases to be Palestine, the sooner people will stop trying to give it back to the Palestinians. And the Palestinians are out-gunned, out-classed, out-flanked, out-numbered, out-maneuvered and outdone. When your burliest weapons are Katyusha rockets (basically a giant, dumb bottle rocket) and explosive vests and you're up against a numerically superior force that can literally design a new kind of tank that's half bulldozer to run over your villages

(although this is actually a Merkava minesweeper but still - c'mon) Well, you're fucked.

The Palestinians are a pawn of the greater middle east. Every Islamic ruler in the region shuffles them around on their geopolitical chessboard in order to garner praise and points but the Palestinians themselves are utterly and thoroughly disenfranchised. The tactical move would be to wipe them out but not even the Israelis are willing to go that far, blustering to the contrary. So instead they pinch them off, starve them out, and wait for them to die.

Plague Blankets

Further reading

blackbootz  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If we agree that

    1) The Jews are kicked out of Palestine by the Babylonians in the Diaspora

then wouldn't it be mixing metaphors to say that the Palestinians are the Native Arabians? Wouldn't the Jews be the natives to the area?

edit: And I apologize for the ambiguity of my last question, I was writing from an old phone but now have the time and means to write more clearly. My question was "what are these plague blankets" in response to

    and eventually the plague blankets will catch up with them.

I meant to ask what you mean by that metaphor. But I understand it as the Palestinians are, tragically but factually, as helpless to Israeli claims on the land as Native Americans are to westward expansion.

further edit: Thanks for the book recommendation, I will definitely look into it as I have hopes of one day visiting Iran.

kleinbl00  ·  3778 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you intend to visit Iran, also read In Search of Zarathustra