Why not take the Muslim people of Kosova and Albania and airlift them to Israel. The European Israelis could be airlifted to the prime European soil of Albania which would be properly in Europe – this would help them get back their EU membership cravings and give them a feeling of getting back to their European roots.

It would get rid of all the problems, turmoil, and conflicts caused by European Israelis, and at the same time make the Xenophobic Serbs and Russians happy.

The Islamophobic, pro-Israel Europeans would be happy as they would get their buddy to be closer to them and get rid of a “Muslim” country in Europe. I am really surprised that Russia is not pushing this idea.

What’s wrong with the idea. I would like a Centre for Strategic Studies “of some kind” to take up this idea and lobby the would be powers.

I am not very sure about realities on ground, but is there any chance that they may merge with Albania and Bosnia?

I don’t think we can use the incident-rate since ’99 as a measure for harmony, because Kosova has been under UN protection. Who knows what would have happened if it was free for all?

I agree though, that considering the precedences that US has been setting in foreign affairs, there is much to be suspicious of. And I also agree that the US uses the UN’s mandate when it wants, and ignores it when it doesn’t. Like for instance, the US’s blind-eye towards outstanding resolutions against Israel (to withdraw from occupied territories).

But as Muslims, we will take what we can get! After all, we haven’t been getting much of a break on other probably worse state offenders… Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, etc.

It’s true that Serbs in Serbia don’t like Albanians for the most part, but there haven’t been any incidences since ’99 so how can you assumed that it would be “a recipe for disaster”? If Serbs were smart (and we know they’re not the brightest, re: riots in Belgrad this week), they would set up good relations with the Kosovo government, which is something they’ve been trying to do for some time, but in efforts to keep Kosovo within Serbia. It appears it’s not going to happen, my beef is the legality of the issue, and just remember folks, the US helped put Saddam into power in Iraq back in the day and we all know how that turned out.

I don’t think that Kosova suddenly became Albanian dominated because Albanians moved there. I imagine that they have been there for generations.

Civil war may be technically correct, but when there is a government-sponsored ethnic-cleansing, then that civil war becomes kind of lopsided. At that point, it is a war of aggression against a helpless minority.

If the information on the killing fields of Kosova and before that Bosnia, were simply based on a couple of accounts, I could accept that as more American propaganda. But I think the facts make it clear that this was definitely ethnic-cleansing. Obviously Serbs don’t like Albanians, and I get that even in your few comments. So, keeping Kosova under Serb control would be a recipe for disastor and more killings.

If Serbs were smart, they’d accept the reality of things, set up good relations with the Kosova government, and move on. There is a lot more gained in moving on than to bemoan about what’s already done.