Hello, If you want to bring balance to the discussion then one should be a little less arbitrary in defining a timeline. Perhaps the collapse of the Ottoman Empire might be useful; or the results of the Balfour declaration and the manipulations of British and French colonialists; MI6 and CIA overthrowing the democratically elected regime in Iran. Of course some Arab hands are not clean but open your eyes a little wider please. And don’t forget the Iraq war… that’s also part of the political landscape. Best Allan
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 08:01, Rahul Goswami via nettime-l wrote: > > I present a few points here to bring balance to the subject: > > 1. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, > known as the Partition Plan. Acceptance of the Partition Plan would have > meant the establishment of two states, but the surrounding Arab > countries and the local Arab population vehemently rejected the proposal. > > 2. After the May 1948 war, Israel (other Western countries too) > immediately absorbed Jewish refugees. Palestinian refugees were placed > in camps and kept there generation after generation as a matter of Arab > policy. Israel withdrew entirely from Gaza in 2005, but there are still > eight UN-run refugee camps there. Why should there be? Gaza is > completely under Palestinian control. But dismantling the camps would > mean removing symbols of Palestinian “resistance”. > > 3. During the 1990-91 Gulf War, Kuwait expelled over 300,000 > Palestinians working in the country when Yasser Arafat supported Saddam > Hussein. The Palestinians were seen as a likely fifth column. There was > scant objection from other Arab countries, or pro-Palestine voices in > the West, about the expulsion. > > Rahul Goswami > > -- > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: https://www.nettime.org > # contact: [email protected] > -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
