Kosovo Is The Israel Of The Balkans
MICHAEL Totten on The Israel of the Balkans on the interesting parallels between Kosovo and Israel.
Many in Kosovo are well aware that they have more in common with Israel than with the West Bank and Gaza. “Kosovars used to identify with the Palestinians because we Albanians are Muslims and Christians and we saw Serbia and Israel both as usurpers of land,” a prominent Kosovar recent told journalist Stephen Schwartz. “Then we looked at a map and woke up. Israelis have a population of six million, their backs to the sea, and 300 million Arab enemies. Albanians have a total population of eight million, our backs to the sea, and 200 million Slav enemies. So why should we identify with the Arabs?”…
If Albania were using Kosovo as a launching pad for a conquest of Belgrade, the Serbs would have a case for occupying their land, just as the Israelis occupied the West Bank and Gaza after a multi-state Arab assault with destructive intent in 1967. Albanians generally, and Kosovars in particular, have no such designs in store for the Serbs.
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April 1st, 2008 at 1:06 am
EUSSR what a a** hole you are..
How can you say albanians are emigrants in the ballkans.. When we all now that the its the serbs who emigrated from mother russia back in the 13. century…
come on know.. quit that pro serb propagande witch has served us for 100 of years..
You are in albanian terrotori and we will fight for our right and land ……
dr:03.55
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Albanians of kosovo are in thei land , in the land that they were born , WHERE their ancestors were born ! On the contrary you serbs , came in balkans in the 13 century ac , you occupied our lands , and now you claim that the abanians of kosovo are emigrants ? ? ?
Albania is not the israel of Balkans ! THE ISRAEL OF BALKAN WAS AND STILL TRIES TO CONTINUE TO BE SERBIA THAT HAD A WAR WITH CROATIA BOSNIA KOSOVO ETC , CAUSE ALL THESE NATIONS WANTED THEIR RIGHTFULL INDEPENDENCE , BUT SERBIA DID NOT LET THEM AND STARTED A WAR !
AND YOU ACCUSE US OF BEING THE ISRAEL OF BALKANS……. YOU RE JUST RIDICULOUS
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
The US-armed Albanian militants are occupying a Serb province not a former Yugoslav republic and therefore have no legal right to seccession. Albanians are immigrants not a constituant people. Do Pakistanis have a right to declare West Yorkshire an independent state ? You are also forgetting that these Albanians already have a country, it’s called Albania !!!
The Pelestinians do not, neither do the Kurds, nor the Basques, nor the Quebecois, nor the Walloons…
The Albanians are doing to South East Europe what Israel is doing to the Middle East and this is underlined by rabid Albanian support from Israeli lobbysist like Stephen Shwartz, Tim Juddah, CNN etc
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 am
90 percent of Kosovars are ethnic Albanians. They lay no claim to proper Serbian land. They have no wish to seize Serbia’s capital Belgrade and ethnically cleanse it of Serbs, nor to rule over Serbs. They want sovereignty over themselves, not over others. They merely want what the other countries of the former Yugoslavia have managed to hammer out for themselves.
While almost the entire world agrees that the Palestinians must someday have a state of their own, Israel’s right to exist is still hotly debated in some quarters, just as Kosovo’s right to exist is denied by many and likely will continue to be denied. No one argues about any Arab state’s right to exist, or about the right of Serbian or Slavic states to exist. Kosovo has joined a small club.
Sorry Justme,
The writer, Michael Totten, as far as i can see, tells us just that, that we albanians were the ones, who where opressed, that we never had terrytorial pretensions, so please, read this article carefully,
All the best from Prishtina, the capital of the Newborn state
March 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Nice propaganda…..! Its very obvious what you try to do….. ! To give the impressions to the average person that does not even know where Albania is situated or kosovo that albanians of kosovo occupy serbias land! Damn what a hypocricy !
We albanians unfortunately have may enemies , and not because of our fault ! OUR ONLY FAULT HAS BEEN THAT WE HAVE TOLERATED YOU FOR SO MUCH! You have devided our lands in 4 pieces and given to our neighbours , and you accuse us of being the Israel of balkans ! WELL GUESS WHAT , ALBANIANS OF KOSOVO WERE EXPELLED IN 1999 FROM THEIR HOMES , 15 , 000 DEAD INNOCENT ALBANIANS, THERE ARE PHOTOS ON THE INTERNET AND ESPECIALLY IN YOUTUBE SHOWING KILLED BABES ,BURNED HOUSES , RAPED WOMEN , KILLED GIRLS ! ON BEHALF OF THEIR PAIN I JUST WANT TO SAY : SHAME ON YOU , GO AND LEARN THE TRUE VALUES OF BEING A JOURNALIST…
dr:14.39