abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (J. Abeles (Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ)) (01/27/86)
> > Ah. You mean they don't support the acts of the Arab countries, > > which by maintaining a state of war with Israel and keeping the > > Palestinian Arabs in refugee camps (INCLUDING 1948-1967) have > > created this "Palestinian problem" you refer to. > So the Palestinian problem will be solved when Arab countries absorb the > Palestinians? > If it's that easy, why wasn't the jewish problem solved by absorbing them > into other friendly countries? ^^^^^^^^ 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 believe the population of Jordan actually contains a significant number of people who are also Palestinian Arabs. Thus there should be quite good levels of acceptance by other Arabs in the region of Palestinian Arabs who either lived in territories now part of Israel or are descended from those who did. However, I am aware of certain political pressures on these Arabs because (for example) King Hussein of Jordan doesn't really want to have more Palestinian Arabs in his country because he himself is not culturally from the that group.