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What About Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine?

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Submitted by Robert (United States), Feb 15, 2023 at 11:47

In the historical past, during and before the Ottoman Empire, Greater Syria was essentially the Levant and it included Lebanon, Jordan and the rest of Palestine, including Israel. Accordingly, there is now space for Palestinians to rebuild the failed-states of (Lesser) Syria and Lebanon. The idea that current Palestinians must have a state right outside of the Armistice Lines (not borders) does not make demographic or nationalistic or religious sense; Palestinian identity is essentially currently defined as adversity to Jews and Israelis. Neither Syria, nor Lebanon, nor Jordan has any Jews left, and that is the case with all the Arab and Muslim countries of the whole world: Isn't it obvious that the world is in fact practicing APARTHEID against Jews by confining them to Israel as it existed before the 1967 War? In fact, Israel Liberated the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt respectively; the idea that for some reason Jews and Israelis cannot Settle anywhere else in the Middle East except within the 1967 boundaries of Israel is simply Antisemitic Apartheid against the Jews, while other peoples are crossing borders of other counties in the Americas and Europe and are recognized as Refugees, legal or illegal, and the latter may be deported. Furthermore, the reality is that what the Palestinians truly want is on display in Gaza under the leadership of Muslim Brotherhood Hamas; the destruction of Israel. Accordingly, that is a State of War, and the best way to Victory is Close Settlements throughout the former Mandatory Palestine. Jews will never do to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them, or what the Palestinians desire to do to the Jews of Israel. So Palestinians will always remain neighbors of the Jews of Israel. But why must there be a future Palestinian State that is 100% free of Jews? Isn't that clearly Palestinian Apartheid against Jews? I recommend that there should be at least 20% Jews living in Close Settlements throughout the West Bank. There is a better model for this region in the European Union: the future should be some kind of Union in which any new state (Palestinian?) has a substantial minority of Jews, just as Israel has 18.1% Palestinian Israelis (Citizenship) cohort. Furthermore, considering what the Jewish Israelis have accomplished in Israel as opposed to the Palestinian Muslims (and Christians), it would be good for the creation of a future state which will not become a Failed State (as in Syria, Lebanon, etc.). In brief, consider in the future the possibility of a United States of Israel-Palestine in which the future Palestinian part is not 100% free of Jews.

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Reader comments (12) on this item

Title Commenter Date Thread
1Strategy vs. Advocacy: The Palestinians and their Way [671 words]LudvikusFeb 17, 2023 07:26293354
2What About Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine? [438 words]RobertFeb 15, 2023 11:47293248
2Apartheid Against Jews in Palestine [431 words]
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RobertFeb 14, 2023 21:48293218
1Israel and the advantage to exist [189 words]mythFeb 13, 2023 07:57293115
1Palestinian State: De Facto Gaza & De Jure West Bank [576 words]RobertFeb 13, 2023 17:54293115
1state and citizen [72 words]mythFeb 14, 2023 11:41293115
2apartheid situation in the region [61 words]mythFeb 14, 2023 11:43293115
2The2state "solution" is dead and has been so a long time ago, and the PA Arabs know it... [58 words]אבי לייני AVIFeb 12, 2023 13:05293066
An eventual Palestinian state? [179 words]Steve amesFeb 12, 2023 11:48293063
A Palestine State will be illegitimate at birth [57 words]PrashantFeb 13, 2023 11:27293063
Nations, neighbors and rights [104 words]JeffFeb 13, 2023 20:45293063
1Divide and Conquer Gaza [892 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
RobertFeb 12, 2023 10:42293061

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