| ManusJustus said: Thats some funny logic. The Egyptians conquered the area before the Jews, and then moved out. So I guess that settles it, Israel is to become a part of Egypt. I'm American, I better pack my bags and head back to England. Oh crap, England was celtic before before the Anglo Saxons came, and since Celts are still around I guess I'd better move back to Germany. |
This was exactly what I was thinking about, when I read through this thread.
But btt the situation is so f... up, that there's probably no solution at all.
Took some classes about this as well, my favorite, was "Jews in the Modern Muslimic World", giving a great overview over the situation from the start of Mohamed throughout the Ottoman Empire and so on. Basically it's us European's fault. European Jews (mainly French, English and German Jews) wanted to educate their "backwards" brothers and sisters and after some decades they were seen as foreigners by the Arabs. That's probably the simplified root you can give for this conflict.
The only option for a future without endless wars, is probably the one suggested by Theodor Herzl himself. But you really got to keep religious influence as little as possible and that's going to be a big problem. If you have some spare time read this book by him. It's a novel and it actually reads quite well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_New_Land
here's the full version of the book in english
http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1600
