But where will they get jobs?

Submitted by Farid H. (Germany), Jan 30, 2009 at 20:36

Let's see it from a purely practical perspective: from where would residents of those "autonomous zones" get their income? For example, let's assume that Paris' banlieues isolate themselves into a kind of "muslim ghetto". How long until people start fleeing en masse from there, because they would have nothing to eat for them and their children?

Remember: there won't be any subsidies from an UNRWA-like group, nor from formerly rich Arab countries (as they would have used up all their oil/gas reserves in a couple of decades); and the surrounding country wouldn't be inclined to support them financially, as they are separatists.

Hmmm... then again, on second thought: so does Israel even now still support viscerally hostile Gazans with water, electricity and oil.

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