Don't forget who started this mess. The meddling British Empire. If they hadn't conceded Transjordan to the newly founded UN, I doubt the screwball idea to divide the country into four separated regions and hope everybody would just get along and have afternoon tea with each other (just one sugar ta very much), would never have been made.
Unfortunately, there has gone Corsican Goat Family Feud in it. Nobody really remembers which goat was stolen by whom, and when, or why. But generations after that swear by their father's or son's graves that the evil other must pay the price for this insult. And so the battle for Israel carries on with seemingly unrelented strength after nearly 60 years. The measures taken escalates, more people die, and more and more sons swear by their father's graves that this injustice shall be revenged with even more injustice. I wonder for how many centuries this problem will exist.
I also wonder why palestinians are living in refugee camps for nearly 60 years. Do they want to stay there? Or is the problem that their "brothers" in other countries are quick on the rhetoric and condemnation, but when it comes to actual housing said brotehrs, they suddenly can't find the space for it?
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