69 million page views

Wonderful Analysis - But Needs More ...

Reader comment on item: Minimize Middle East Mistakes

Submitted by Robert (United States), Dec 8, 2016 at 11:09

Dear Daniel Pipes,

I cannot disagree with any issue you raised and analyzed. However, I wish to raise another emerging issue - Demography: Refugees and Immigration.

It is time to merge the UN Refugee split in which Palestinians receive a special status, superior to all other refugees of the world, including the 400,000 Syrians Arabs, and countless Iraq Arabs. Because in fact Iraq and Syria are a part of the Arab Heartland, millions of Palestinians dream of returning to "Palestine" should be made to consider migrating back to the "Islamic State" (of ISIS) where through Ethnic Cleaning new "vacancies" have been created for them. At the turn of the century there were 14% Christians living in the Middle East; now there are barely 4%. Not coincidentally, Palestinians are the most progressive of the Arab population (Gaza excepted), probably because of their national homelessness, which makes them resemble the Jews who lived outside of Zion for 2,000 years. Palestinian Doctors and Engineers would mage excellent citizens of Iraq and Greater Syria, the latter from which they hail prior to the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire by the British and French at the conclusion of the First World War.

Regarding the issue of "Settlement" by Israelis of "Occupied Palestine," Israel should be permitted to decide by itself whether or not the "Disputed Territories," particularly the neighborhoods of Greater Jerusalem, but also the "Liberated Territories" (from Egypt and Jordan), as within the new "Pale of Settlement" for Jews, namely 1948 Israel, is to be expended. The Myth of International Law, namely what the UN defines is legal for Israel to do, must not be propagated in contravention of Kissinger's Westphalian principles. The overwhelming international opposition to Israel's expansion through conquest in its Defensive "Just Wars" should be supported by President Donald Trump, as head of the last Superpower, the United States. The Start-Up Nation of Israel is a contributor to the world's economic and material progress, while all the Arab and Muslim countries of the world have succeeded into turning the Arab Spring into a Muslim Hell. Islam apparently is going through its own "Protestant Revolution," while having cleansed itself of millions of Christians and Jews, is now flooding Europe with Muslims. This versions of a "War of Religions" is conflated into the broadened interpretation of Racism, which it isn't. And the perpetration of the Moronic notion of Islamophobia is succeeding among the Liberals of Europe and the United States. However, Populism in both places is apparently going to put a stop to it, as is currently exemplified by Geert Wilders now on trial in Holland for stating that he wants less Moroccans (who are Muslim) in his county.

It seems that the phenomena of Multiculturalism has succeeded in probating us Westerners from using the notions of Superior and Inferior. Racism, in its "classic" form violated the Humanist traditions of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, when it was practiced by Hitler. However, Voltaire and Shakespeare themselves can be accused of being Racists (Candide, Merchant of Venice, Mendelssohn, etc.) if viewed out of context, when Jews just began emerging out of their Ghettos in Europe, and experienced their very own Jewish Renaissance.

Moving to the Present Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky, and Max Blumenthal are about to take a back seat in relation to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and that may be a good thing, particularly with respect to Middle Eastern American Strategy, giving Israel an opportunity to be Realistic (as in Realpolitik a la Kissinger) regarding the Failed State potentials of Fatah under dictator Abbas and Gaza under (Muslim Brotherhood) Hamas.

Submitting....

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".

Submit a comment on this item

Reader comments (39) on this item

Title Commenter Date Thread
What makes us different than we were during and after WWII? [229 words]LynnDec 22, 2016 09:24234817
Defeating the Deceiver [550 words]Michael SDec 23, 2016 08:44234817
The center of the world. [278 words]LynnJan 2, 2017 11:12234817
Our job is to be martyrs. [1154 words]Michael SJan 4, 2017 16:49234817
2The Pdychinzopheric Two-State Solution: Americas Gult Over Indiand and Slaves & Eurpe's Over Pogroms & Nazis [169 words]RobertDec 16, 2016 20:25234707
Your reader Robert's dream is absolutely normal [563 words]PrashantDec 18, 2016 20:51234707
2The Palestinians stole their land from the Jews [92 words]Michael SDec 20, 2016 01:26234707
1Thanks for agreeing with my analogy [237 words]PrashantDec 28, 2016 23:43234707
1Yes, the problem is in the mindset of the Arabs [454 words]Michael SDec 31, 2016 16:59234707
Palestinian Settlement of Europe vs. Jewish Refugess to Palestine [452 words]RobertDec 16, 2016 10:00234703
The single most important issue of the ME!!! [158 words]stevenlDec 14, 2016 00:01234682
On Muhammads Birthday Muslims Murder Chritian Women in Egypt [60 words]RobertDec 11, 2016 21:04234658
"We must stop calling this Islamism. It is Islam, and it is infected." [27 words]Robert BDec 17, 2016 19:16234658
1Do we need a Crusade against Islam ? From Snake Oil to Standard Oil [333 words]RobertDec 11, 2016 11:19234644
1An intellectual against Islam has already started [181 words]PrashantDec 11, 2016 22:07234644
The Religion of Islam, Inside and Outside [373 words]RobertDec 17, 2016 06:05234644
Do you want more, or less, Palestinians in Israele? [607 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
RobertDec 9, 2016 10:45234597
Wilders is right [88 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 19:44234597
Form vs. Matter: From Aristotle ... to the Supreme Court of the United States [338 words]RobertDec 17, 2016 13:18234597
I will be happy to see the Martians get on their spaceships and leave. [419 words]Michael SDec 20, 2016 13:46234597
Genetics vs. Racism [470 words]RobertDec 24, 2016 16:58234597
Races exist, like it or not [50 words]Michael SDec 26, 2016 02:24234597
1Putin, Xi and Erdogan [356 words]Michael SDec 9, 2016 01:34234591
Two comments [144 words]Vadim AnshelevichDec 8, 2016 23:14234589
The Arabs must be trained not to hate and kill Jews [73 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 05:37234589
Reversal of Fortunes Coming - But Whose Fortunes are at Stake? [212 words]M ToveyDec 8, 2016 19:17234585
Yes - America is its own worse enemy [116 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 06:06234585
HOW ISRAEL PROGRESS IN MILITARY & ECONOMY? [8 words]ZERIHUN BERHANUDec 8, 2016 13:22234576
How Do We Safely Shut Down Iran's Entire Nuclear Weapons Program? [146 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Liz WagnerDec 8, 2016 12:47234575
Libya was the only example of a madman willingly giving up nukes [57 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 05:42234575
1The Trouble With Turkey [174 words]Mike RamirezDec 8, 2016 12:16234573
Yes, Turkey may declare a Caliphate [36 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 05:45234573
1The worldwide litmus test [419 words]PrashantDec 12, 2016 21:21234573
Islamic political history: Caliphate, sultanate, dictatorship and radical movements [177 words]Michael SDec 17, 2016 13:24234573
"Death to Iran" [290 words]RobertDec 8, 2016 11:41234572
I don't think "regime change" is going to be a policy of President Trump [34 words]Michael SDec 11, 2016 05:57234572
Regime Chamge in Iran by Donald Trump [267 words]RobertDec 11, 2016 17:10234572
I know very little about Iran [254 words]Michael SDec 18, 2016 02:37234572
Wonderful Analysis - But Needs More ... [597 words]RobertDec 8, 2016 11:09234571

Follow Daniel Pipes

Facebook   Twitter   RSS   Join Mailing List

All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2024 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes

Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes

(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.

For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)