mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) (01/29/86)
Subject: Re: Absorbing Arab Palestinians into Arab Societies abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles (Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ)) writes: > It seems to me that "friendly" is a key word here. Until reading > this comment, I had always assumed that Palestinian Arabs were > indeed viewed with reasonable amounts of friendship by other > Arab people because of a similar culture.* However, it is certainly > NOT true that European countries viewed Jews with friendship, > in spite of nearly 2000 years available to reach an accomodation. > If Arab Palestinians cannot be assimilated into the neighboring > Arab countries, I would interpret this as well as evidence for > the unfriendliness of those societies towards Arab Palestinians. I think we agree on this point. I don't think that all Palestinians can be absorbed into the Arab societies successfully. Farzin Mokhtarian