Rami said:
As long as you understand what I am getting at, then I am happy. The current political environment is irrelevent.
And about those empires, I never looked into it, but historically speaking how where the people descending from these empires after a 100 years of their downfall? I bet they were restless, and trying to hold on to something that doesn't really exist.
But in the Arab sitution now (maybe I am holding on something that doesn't exist
), Arabs have all the resources to become a superpower. Money, minds, labor...etc. What we are missing is unity, organization, positive thinking, constructive attitude....
Rami u make perfect sense and i honeslty respect and share the same opinion but i am afraid this wont happen not in the coming decade at least. the reason is not normal people like u, me and the other millions of arabs in the region, its because of several other reasons that include:
1- unfortunetly we arabs hate each other a great deal and enjoy arguing with each other
2- each country in the region has set an oppisite goal from its neighboring country just for the sake of not uniting together at times like this ( the most recent being the current war on iraq)
3- its not in the benefit of the super powers that arabs wake up and unite together thats why we have issues between each and every country whether they r internal issues like sudan or external issues like for example syria and lebanon at the moment.
i still share yr point of view i think its right on, and if the european countries managed to put history, and there differences behind and came up with the european union which is growing stronger and stronger with each day then i am sure we arabs can pull the same thing we just need to realize that its our only solution to gather up the bits of pride we have left ( if we still have pride that is)
i read earllier a post by rebel regarding peace treaties and what countries like jordan and eygpt benefited from it well i think here is the answer from my point of view being a citzen of a country that has a peace treaty with isreal.
first of all i think it was a right decision that we did have the peace treaty rebel bec lets be honest here isreal is a reality that we need to face and accept. nassers policy of throwing isreal back in the sea is long gone now and we need to get over it. isreal now is a super power in the region and its alot stronger than all arab countries combined in each and every aspect of life from there miilitary capabilities down to there transportation system. its a sad reality i agree but thats reality that we need to accept.
i agree with u that the benefits to isreal from the peace treaty are much more important and of greater value than those eygpt has gained but at the end of the day eygpt has restored full control on its land once again. we arabs specialy people who are against this treaty in specific the camp david peace treaty always tend to forget the reasons why eypgt had to go with the peace solution rather than continuing there war with isreal in 1973. u see when eygpt decieded to cease fire they did so bec it was no longer a war between eygpt and isreal instead it had changed into a war between eygpt and the United States who were bcking up isreal with all there power making it an unbalanced war, and dont think that the soviets would've stood with eygpt thats all talk we would've seen them make a move but they never did and eygpt was left to deal with this on its own, so to get things clear eygpt did not do this because we r traitors or bec we wanted to betray the syrians, palestinans and arabs as a whole, no we did this bec this is the logical progress of a win in a battle.
when eygpt did go, they kept on convincing the rest of the arab countries to come along so we can sort the issue once and for all but offcourse the arabs refused and eygpt was labeled as a traitor country and we were kicked out of the arab league u guys know the rest of the story. if the arabs did come i strongly believe we would've gained more from isreal than what we r trying to get from it at the moment.
as for lebanon well i think they should have full control over there own land just like any independant country, i discovered recently that the lebanese prime minster was approved from three countries in the region Syria, Saudi arabia, and Eygpt. i think this has to change cos after all lebanon has its own people to deciede whats best for them not the other way round.
i disagree with all the attacks on hezboAllah i think they played a major role in retriving lebanons occupied land but i honestly think it should've stopped at that point and they should'nt have involved any further with the interior politics of lebanon, neither the capturing of isreali soliders cos we all so the out comes of this. once again if syria andiran did care where were they when lebanon was bombed day in and day ot for a complete month.
i under stand why there is so much concern over lebanon. lets not forget that lebanon is the only left front along with the syrian front that oppose the isreali's but once again its not a reaosn for syrian and iranian interest. syria already has its own front that has been dead since 1973 if u want a war with isreal then i think syria should do so from its on land and not from its nieghboring country i think its fair that lebanese people have some peace, as they have seen the worest out comes of war.
i hope no one feels offended by this post, i am only reflecting my own personal opinion of how i feel towards all of this and i am open for debates and its known that i respect other opinions.