Re:'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israe...
by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:19PM
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The Palestinians and Arabs like to pretend they weren't roundly defeated in the only historical wars that currently matter, the Arab-Israeli wars from mid-20th century.
In terms of international relations and power dynamics, the Palestinians have no real basis for any demands, they only can plead with their "allies" in the UN for some diplomatic influence, but they have no rights to holy sites, territory, supplies, money, infrastructure. They cannot functionally threaten the Israelis militarily. They have no economic purpose or key trade function that would curry them favor with other nations.
The one reason the world cares about them as opposed to the Tigray war or Azerbaijan-Armenia in modern terms (heard about them? No? Wonder why) is that they are in the middle east and the world cares about oil.
But the geopolitical significance of oil is waning, and will dramatically wane in the next decade as vast swathes of transportation infrastructure transition to BEVs.
The world does not care about "blessed sacred land". If Saudi Arabia doesn't care about it, no one else will. The current terrorist action was fomented by Iran to disrupt a fairly formalized Israel-Saudi alliance/alignment, and the Sunni Saudis are bigger blood enemies to the Shia Iranians than the Israelis are.
The Palestinians are a defeated people, and do not seem to realize there is a ticking time bomb that has nothing to do with Israel. They exit almost solely at the gracious of Qatar (humanitarian) and Iran (terrorist funding). If that money dried up, they are in very very very serious straits. They have no infrastructure, a limited economy, no trade, and are surrounded on all sides by Israel (who at a minimum distrusts them) or Egypt (who hate Palestinians from their 25 years of overseeing Gaza in the late 20th century).
The money is going to dry up in the next ten years. They have no infrastructure. No resources. No economy or trade. THEY CAN'T GO ANYWHERE. The Gazas (and Palestinians in general) have been on a 70 year long population explosion (think 6-8 children per female on average) that took them from 500k to 3-5 million people, which takes them from "big but manageable humanitarian crisis" to "unsustainable population in a crisis".
The Palestinians need to wake up that Israel, the enemy, is actually their only friend, and they need to make up with them very quickly. Of course they are paid not to be, so that is like the proverbial flying pigs.
Otherwise, they will starve in a horrifying manner.
In terms of international relations and power dynamics, the Palestinians have no real basis for any demands, they only can plead with their "allies" in the UN for some diplomatic influence, but they have no rights to holy sites, territory, supplies, money, infrastructure. They cannot functionally threaten the Israelis militarily. They have no economic purpose or key trade function that would curry them favor with other nations.
The one reason the world cares about them as opposed to the Tigray war or Azerbaijan-Armenia in modern terms (heard about them? No? Wonder why) is that they are in the middle east and the world cares about oil.
But the geopolitical significance of oil is waning, and will dramatically wane in the next decade as vast swathes of transportation infrastructure transition to BEVs.
The world does not care about "blessed sacred land". If Saudi Arabia doesn't care about it, no one else will. The current terrorist action was fomented by Iran to disrupt a fairly formalized Israel-Saudi alliance/alignment, and the Sunni Saudis are bigger blood enemies to the Shia Iranians than the Israelis are.
The Palestinians are a defeated people, and do not seem to realize there is a ticking time bomb that has nothing to do with Israel. They exit almost solely at the gracious of Qatar (humanitarian) and Iran (terrorist funding). If that money dried up, they are in very very very serious straits. They have no infrastructure, a limited economy, no trade, and are surrounded on all sides by Israel (who at a minimum distrusts them) or Egypt (who hate Palestinians from their 25 years of overseeing Gaza in the late 20th century).
The money is going to dry up in the next ten years. They have no infrastructure. No resources. No economy or trade. THEY CAN'T GO ANYWHERE. The Gazas (and Palestinians in general) have been on a 70 year long population explosion (think 6-8 children per female on average) that took them from 500k to 3-5 million people, which takes them from "big but manageable humanitarian crisis" to "unsustainable population in a crisis".
The Palestinians need to wake up that Israel, the enemy, is actually their only friend, and they need to make up with them very quickly. Of course they are paid not to be, so that is like the proverbial flying pigs.
Otherwise, they will starve in a horrifying manner.