Almost all the Palestenians that I've met hate all other Arab countries and they believe that Saudi, Egypt and Jordan are the reason why their land is occupied, although it's written in history that Egypt has sent the largest number of soldiers in 1948 to defend Palestine yet nowadays Palestenians are bombing touristic places in Egypt!! Also, many Palestenians left their land and took the US, UK, Canadian, many European nationalities and became millionaires, and they blame other countries for not donating anything to their folks back home! And their dead leader Yasser Arafat left millions of dollards to his wife and daughter which was originally money acquired through donations!! I find that race difficult to understand... any help?
2007-02-21 16:11:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I'm glad you WANT to understand, rather than coming from prejudice.
Psychologically, my perception is "collective victim drama". Someone I know blames everyone around, their circumstances, and "luck" for not getting what they want from life, when actually what would make a huge difference is if they learned to give (time, heart, skills) not just take, and to love and not to blame. I see the national Palestinian psyche as rather comparable.
As for the emigres, like most emigres everywhere, their minds say "I made it by my own efforts. I'm not now wasting it on subsidizing you lazy bums".
2007-02-22 01:01:32 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other Arab countries really don't care about the Palestinians. In fact they use the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel as a smokescreen in order to blame Israel and "The West" for their own inadequate governments.
As far as the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, I really don't know what to think. It does seem that Israel 'invaded' in 1948 with a 'UN Mandate', but several wars were fought and Israel decisively won every single one. That is the way of the world. America won its independence and many many other wars. There are winners and losers.
The Palestinians are now in a state of chaos and self deprecation. Since they don't have a government or a military, they see terrorism as a valid means to conduct war.
2007-02-21 18:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by sw1irly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we should give them tax-free casinos, that appeased the Native Americans that sold their land for whiskey, then moaned about it years later.
2007-02-21 16:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by raggnaar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋