Middle East Conflict

[ali benarbia's studs]

I don't remember Egypt being in a concentration camp.

It has become a huge concentration camp supporting war refugees from Libya, gaza,Syria,Iraq and West bank. Even some African(non Arab) folk.

 

[Vic]

So is Israel now at war with Syria?

That's why I said I am not sure I will approve of what they do next, but as a defensive measure a large buffer zone makes sense to me. Somehow I doubt that will be the end of it, though.

They'll settle the buffer zone then demand a buffer zone round the buffer zone.

BBC's Jeremy Bowen actually citing the "Iron Wall" doctrine of Jabotinsky in 1923. Here's his morality:

Yet if homeless Jewry demands Palestine for itself it is "immoral" because it does not suit the native population. Such morality may be accepted among cannibals, but not in a civilised world. The soil does not belong to those who possess land in excess but to those who do not possess any. It is an act of simple justice to alienate part of their land from those nations who are numbered among the great landowners of the world, in order to provide a place of refuge for a homeless, wandering people. And if such a big landowning nation resists which is perfectly natural – it must be made to comply by compulsion. Justice that is enforced does not cease to be justice. This is the only Arab policy that we shall find possible. As for an agreement, we shall have time to discuss that later.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Think I prefer the idea of a Greater Syria to Greater Israel.

 

[Postman Pep]

Think I prefer the idea of a Greater Syria to Greater Israel.

How about a greater Turkey?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

How about a greater Turkey?

Fantasy stuff. Makes the Russian maps of their new empire look realistic.

 

[M23 Citizen]

 

[west didsblue]

They didn't steal loads of Egyptian land nor did they bomb Cairo from the air.

During the 6 day war in 1967 Israel took the Sinai peninsula and returned it as part of the 1979 peace deal. That excluded Gaza because Egypt didn’t want it despite it being under Egyptian control pre-1967.

 

[west didsblue]

How about a greater Turkey?

That’s basically the Ottoman Empire without most of the North African coast. Looks like Erdogan may have similar delusions as Putin looking to rebuild a former empire.
Maybe it’s time for us to retake Canada, Australia, India and the rest of the former British Empire?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

That’s basically the Ottoman Empire without most of the North African coast. Looks like Erdogan may have similar delusions as Putin looking to rebuild a former empire.
Maybe it’s time for us to retake Canada, Australia, India and the rest of the former British Empire?

You will ‘n your Vikings, said Brian Boru.

 

[Postman Pep]

That’s basically the Ottoman Empire without most of the North African coast.

and the Balkans .... but that has already been Balkanised to the degree where there is no going back 3 decades never mind 11. Not complete fantasists then ...

Looks like Erdogan may have similar delusions as Putin looking to rebuild a former empire.

Kind of why I struggle to take these 'existential threats' seriously and again Erdogan is swimming against a stronger tide of history here.

Maybe it’s time for us to retake Canada, Australia, India and the rest of the former British Empire?

I'm with you....first stop mandatory Palestine :-)