10-27-2018, 09:44 AM
(10-27-2018, 08:12 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Why haven't these refugees assimilate since the 1940s? All other groups have. The answer is, the Palestinian regimes indoctrinate generation after generation because otherwise they would have run out of "resistance fighters".
The other side of the coin is that Israel is not competent or moral, since it allows these regimes to exist. They should have created a democratic administration in Gaza and the West Bank. The reason they didn't is probably fear of losing the "uniquely Jewish" character of their country. Which is, sadly, tribalism.
Essentially correct, but incomplete. The Palestinians continue as a resistance movement for many reasons, not the least being their lifelines from other Arab communities. They are the ultimate proxy people: standing tall for <insert the anti-Israel entity of your choice>. Israel is even less flexible, having invited the world's Jews to the banquet, and getting an overflow crowd from places that have always been dogmatic.
We Americans can't even resolve our issues dating back to the ACW, and this is the ACW of the Arabian peninsula. It's not getting resolved in our lifetimes.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.