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Originally posted by Not Bob
Me too. Although if the folks in South Africa can get along reasonably well today, there's a bit of hope for Israel and the Palestinians, no?
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a Mideast version of Nelson Mandela available. Rabin might have made it work, but he ain't around anymore (and who killed him?), and the Palestinian leadership is even less likely to have such a person in their ranks.
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The difference with South Africa is that no one had any sympathy for the Whites in that country. The entire world was forcing them to capitulate. In addition, the Whites were a total minority everywhere and pretty much had to capitulate.
It would have been only similar if the whites in South Africa had expelled the blacks from a certain area of the country and encouraged white people from all over the world to emigrate to that part of the country but didn't let the blacks back in. Therefore, the area that the whites controlled would have a massive majority of white people. In addition, they would have had to let the blacks in that part of the country that was controlled by the whites have full voting rights and liberties (but of course they would only be twenty percent of the population). Then the black people who had been expelled kept attacking the white country (using suicide bombers, killing innocent people and hijacking planes around the world) so the White county had to occupty parts of South Africa left to the blacks for their own self defense. Then the black people that had been forced out and lived in the occupied zones would have to constanly be attacking the white part and blowing up civilian planes and innocent people around the world. Of course it would also be helpful if two billion people in the world subscribed to a holy book that said that South Africa belonged to the whites. It would also be helpful if the whites that were in South Africa had been opressed everywhere else in the world and had experienced some sort of holocaust.
If that were the situation in South Africa I don't think the whites would have capitulated. And I think that the there would be some world sympathy for the whites and that a thousand Nelson Mandellas would not be able to help the situation.
