Brad Sallows
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Pan-Arabism is a pretty lofty dream for a culture which tends to strengthen its loyalties the further down the hierarchy you go.
Considering that our notion of the Westphalian state came into being in 1648 (and its application to the African and Asian continents much later) I'd hardly blame "lines in a sandbox" for war and hatred in any areas.
Sorry to be the severe pessimist here, but just how long would this guys life expectancy be? All the little "tinpot" group leaders would see him/her as a grave threat to their little chunk of this insanity.
Che said:It's Israelis and Palestinians that will never get along, ever.
The nation state has done more to destroy peace in the middle east and africa than any other advent brought to the "orient"
So, idealistically I picture a unified Arabia, which is impossible, the idea of nationalism is too far ingrained into the minds of the Arab peoples.
In my opinion, the only true way to guarantee any sort of peace would be to employ an international nation-building and peacekeeping team (there, I said it, peacekeeping!) Unfortunately, this suggestion has been shot down in the UN Security Council by the US- a permanent member. As a gauge of success, we can look to the Golan Heights and the operations that seem to have kept the Syrians and Israelis from resuming hostilities along that piece of border- the same not being true for the Lebanese border where Hisballa and IDF forces clashed for some time.
My point (really, there is one) is that the two sides are never, ever going to agree to stop killing each other in their current state- that task must be taken over by the next generation of leaders that agree that the past is the past. Period. A fact that both side's current ruling parties can't seem to put behind them