[Urbane Guerrilla]

As long as the irresponsible sort of Palestinian keeps crying "Victim! Victim! Victim!" while his every behavior, day in and day out, year in and year out, for decades on end, says "Perp! Perp! Perp!" he has no hope of ever having the moral ascendancy.

The assholes attach more importance to their feud with the Jews than to living a good life, or to recuperating their losses! The surrounding countries have pursued only destructive policies, believing apparently that they can conquer the Israelis. They can't; the Israelis simply are not going to leave no matter what the surrounding Arab nations try. They don't even want to take over Jordan -- the other two thirds of the British Mandate.

Mass migrations, displacing the original inhabitants from a given place, have occurred all through history. There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about this one. The Palestinians have been carefully prevented from finding new homes or new fortunes -- as if they had much fortune before the twentieth century.

A lot of these symptoms, these dysfunctional wars, go back in their origin to the Ottoman Empire, which in its long span was hardly a model of social enlightenment, and which did not encourage creative thinking from the provinces. Nobody paid much attention at all to that swatch of Eastern Mediterranean littoral until a bunch of Jews moved in and made a success of the place.