President Assad has always proclaimed that he is the chief supporter of the Palestinians. He showed his support the other day by bombing a Palestinian Hospital with mortars and killing 21 Palestinians That is what we call "support" in the Islamic world. I'm sure all the other Palestinian supporters here will want to jump in and express their opinions. Who knows, maybe they'll show some similar levels of support.
Tell us something new. It's old news that Assad has/is feigning concern for Palestinians. Just like the Jordanians and former Egyptian regimes. How did you think Israel still exists today ? Assad sees himself as a Lord, and he worshipped by his supporters. So I don't know what you mean by "Islamic world".
yeah. I'm not sure about whose support of Palestinians is greater: The gulf Arab eviction, torture, killing, ethnic cleansing and expelling of about 400,000-500,000 Palestinians that the Arab press conspired to suppress or Assad's army bombing a palestinian hospital and killing 21 That Islamic love of Palestinians is pretty similar isn't it?
The UAE is a great example of Islamic/Arabic love for the Palestinians: Up to 100,000 Palestinians live there: According to Arab media as reported by haaretz The UAE is deporting Palestinians...another example of how Islam really really feels about Palestinians IMHO the Kuwaitis and Gulf Arabs engaging in ethnic cleansing and exiling 400-500,000 palestinians and the Syrian bombing of a Palestinian hospital and killing 21 Palestinians are more explicit and better examples of Arab/islamic love and brotherhood for Palestinians than the mere deportation of an initial few hundred Palestinians. its a world where Islamic unity and support is something you can bet your life and home and happiness on.
And the Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait because they sided with Saddam Hussain when he invaded Kuwait. That;s why they were expelled. The current PLO chairman has apologised for siding with Saddam Hussain. "We apologise to Kuwait and the Kuwaiti people for what we did" - Mahmoud Abbas PLO chairman. So atleast there was some logic behind this expulsion. What excuse does Israel have for expelling 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland ?
So if the Palestinians had sided against Israel there would be logic behind their expulsion? Unsuccessful Palestinian supporter is unsuccessful! LOL at you!
No. Palestinians had a RIGHT to defend their land when the Jews were stealing it. Palestinians in Kuwait had no right to side with Saddam Hussain while he was was attacking Kuwait. How is that Kuwait welcomes all these Palestinians, and then the Palestinians side with Kuwait's enemy ? I think you are getting the point. Lastly, for strategic reasons, Palestinian refugees are not given citizenship in Arab countries. It has nothing to do with "hate for Palestinians."
How is that whole, keep them refugees thing, working out for them? I think had the Palestinians just accepted their own state next to Israel already they would be prospering and flourishing. Instead, for as you say, strategic reasons, they are kept as refugee pawns in a useless war to try and take all of Israel. Not only will they never get Israel but even if they do get a state it will be demilitarized and Israel will control the airspace and the ports. Choke on that.
Better than surrendering to Israel. Why should Palestinians agree that their land be divided ? Why should they give an inch of their land to Jews? Can you ever answer these questions ? The crusaders said something similar.
That is kind of an ironic citation of history since the Crusades were about trying to take Jerusalem back from Islam. Who hold Jerusalem now? It isn't Islam is it?
The old city of Jerusalem is internationally recognized as Palestinian territory. But it is illegally occupied by Israel. What else do you want to know ?
The official Kuwait explanation for ethnic cleansing, torture, and mass deporting of 400-500,000 Palestinians is the Great Lie of the gulf Arabic states. Its simply not true. Its their excuse for inflicting a reign of terror on Palestinians that started before the Iraqi invasion. The Kuwaiti's in true muslim gulf arabic behavior simply acted like Nazi's against a people they claim they have supported for the last 60 years. The Kuwaiti's were EXTRA trechorous as Palestinians built the country of Kuwait and were rewarded early on...." Having been the leading muslim/arabic developers of the gulf oil industry Palestinians tried to become permanent citizens. This is where they were first betrayed by the Kuwaitis and other Gulf States: The Palestinian community in Kuwait was large. The Kuwaiti's decided to terminate this situation in a typical hate filled Muslim/Arabic way, rather than grant the Palestinians citizenship and recognize their contributions to the nation. That hate filled term--Ethnic Cleansing Here is the great bullshit scenario in Kuwait which left the Palestinians out to hang: When Iraq attacked the big bad brave Kuwaiti government fled like scared chickens. They actually gave native Kuwaiti's money to similarly run like frightened wimps: But the Palestinians had no exit visas no nations would accept them and the Kuwaitis left them there to face the Iraqi's. I could go on and on. The simple fact is that the Kuwaiti's wanted to rid their country of Palestinians, they kept them as 2nd class citizens, no Islamic nation would accept the Palestinians when the Iraqi's attacked...and ultimately the Kuwaiti's returned and brutalized the Palestinians, killing, torturing them and then deporting them. typical gulf arabic/muslim love.
It seems to me that palestinians are not very liked by the majority of arab countries because they are a big liability. They are lazy, uneducated, and surely do not strive for progress or peace. They are a good tool to use against Israel, though, and that's the reason why arab countries are so concerned about the palestinians.
DevilHelz: According to the researched article that exposes the Kuwaiti and gulf state expulsion of Palestinians, along with the torture, police harrassment and outright murder of palestinians, A). It was the Palestinians who were the most productive in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti gulf arabs, like most of them are pampered spoiled people with neither direction, education, or meaning to life. Its why so many become terrorists. Lets face it among the angry saudi terrorists many go right back into saudi arabia and want to tear that country down. B) It turned out that the palestinians who lived in Kuwait for decades became engineers doctors, lawyers, etc. The native kuwaiti tribes turned out to be chicken shit people who luckily sit on oil. Basically gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia buy off their own people and everyone else to keep their miserable infected families in charge. In the case of the Palestinians the gulf states pledge allegiance and cry about their plight....even as they tortured killed and expelled palestinians in mass. Ultimately every nation that deals with them gets to hate them. The gulf arabs are a miserable lying lot.
That's actually very surprising to hear (not the fact that Kuwaiti arabs are spoiled and lazy, that we already know), because the people you're describing are no way close to the dudes we have here leeching off from Israel. Kuwait expelled them because of they supported Saddam, though, as they realized the palestinians are treacherous douches. Kuwait considered PLO support for Iraq as treacherous ingratitude for years of support; the emirate had been home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians since the 1970s.
Ughh. Its a matter of nature vs. nurture. You take children out of schools that teach them to strap bombs to their chests and die for the glory of palestine, and they WILL find something else to do, perhaps become a doctor or a scientist. I have no idea what the environment was like for Palestinians in Kuwait during the 50s and 60s, but if they were as busy as it sounds like the Kuwaiti's kept them, I doubt they had the time to spend focused on the destruction of Israel. It was probably more of a pasttime, like it is for most Arab states. I'm also opposed to the idea of describing the innate character of whole groups of people based on race, nationality, or place of origin, unless you are telling a joke. Palestinians are not innately douches any more than Jews are innately smart. You transplant a Jewish baby into a family in Gaza and have him raised as one of their own, he stands as good a chance as any other Palestinian boy of being a dumbsh*t willing to blow himself up for Allah and Palestine. Conversely, you drop a Palestinian baby into Israel and have him raised by a upper middle class Jewish family there as one of their own, he stands as good a chance as any other Jewish boy of becoming a nobel prize winner. To imply otherwise is simply racist.