spurgeonryan said:
Maybe the problem is these other Arab nations should not be involved. It is between Israel and Palestine. The other Arab countries have their own problems, like make movie theaters legal again and terrorists. |
Unfortunately, until relatively recently the conflict was more between Israel and the entire Arab world, with the Palestinians little more than pawns of the Sunni Arab states and the Soviet Union. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, ect. were fighting to claim as much land for themselves as they could in 1948, not to create another another Arab state. And no one considered making Gaza or the West Bank into a separate state when they were under Egyptian and Jordanian control. Syria largely wanted to reclaim 'southern Syria.' Egypt under Nasser had this grand idea for a huge Pan-Arab state that spanned the whole Middle East - led by him, of course - and Israel was in his way. The Arab states deliberately discriminated against the Arab refugees from 1948 and have refused to allow them or their descendants to leave their refugee camps and become citizens. No one cared a wit for the Palestinians except in how they could be useful in destroying Israel so the other states could take the land for themselves.
