kvs Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:14 pm
Hole wrote: Egypt would have to be prepared to jettison future US aid, including weapons, before it would do anything like that.
A lot of Egyptians (at least politicians) are running around, telling everybody that they are an ancient civilization and a great power... but taking
bribes from a far away foreign country. If Egypt wants to be taken seriously the country has to get rid of that kind of people.
I seriously doubt that the dynastic Egyptians are the precursors of modern Egyptians. It's sort of like claiming that Turkey was inhabited
by Turks 4000 years ago. It's politically correct and woke to claim such nonsense, but the reality is that there were vast migrations of
people in the general region of Europe 1000 years ago and earlier. There were no well defined states with the same ethnic population
over most of this region. Such states only emerged in the last 1000 years. There are exceptions like Italy but the UK was created
from migrations of first Celts and then Germanic tribes. Germanic peoples were in Europe for a very long time but a country called
Germany did not exist 2000 years ago. There are no Slavic countries that old. Hungarians moved in from the east. Bulgarians did
the same.
Israelis claim rights to lands they did not inhabit for nearly 2000 years. That is some sort of transcendental chutzpah. They were not
the first humans to live there, so perhaps some genetic progeny of the older inhabitants should claim this territory and ethnically cleanse
the Israelis. After all we are to accept that Palestinians don't have any land rights.
At the same time, Palestinian leaders helped to f*ck over their own people. The strident militancy has not brought them any success.
They should have removed any reference to destroying Israel in their political charters. The 1990s two state solution was the only
tractable option, but we had extremists on both side effectively sabotaging this process. But ultimately it was the British who created
the mess without properly partitioning the territory and the Americans who made it worse by never being honest brokers.