Fred,
You must have been in the generation that smoked funny cigarettes, and took hallucinigens cause Mr. Bar`el speaks the truth. Disunity has been a common thread throughtout the history of Arab Moslem politics from the inception of the Islamic Empire way back in the the seventh century C.E.
That being said, Jews, having returned to their Homeland after being expelled three times are not going away so quickly, or, in turn accepting the Arab presence as easily as you would like to see.
Now, the Greeks in Cyprus, like the Jews in Israel where invaded by Moslems in 1974, that is the Turkish Army. Thirty years later they had a choice to reunite the island, but, they preferred not to accept the Turkish Cypriots as equal partners. You see, they were invaded by the Turkish Army and they didn`t like it. The Jewish State that was mandated by the UN was invaded by Arab States in 1947 why should they be any more generous. |
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