"Mitchell Holman" <Noemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> jgarbuz <jgarbuz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 19, 9:01 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> jgarbuz<jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > On May 19, 7:39 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> >> > On May 17, 6:01 pm, MissMiss <lilhor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> >> Where did the Israelis get any "right" to the lands
>>> >> they hold?<
>>>
>>> > From the League of Nations in 1922 at the San Remo conference.
>>>
>>> Were the people who were living on the land get any
>>> voice in who it was being "awarded" to?<
>>
>> No. Why should they have been?
> Because they lived there?
Suppose Archie Bunker doesn't like the inflow
of South Americans and Chinese
into his Queens neighborhood.
He has good reason.
He's unfamiliar with the language, culture, and religion.
He complains, but the decisions are not made in Queens.
He gets together with his friends,
who declare themselves "Queensians".
They obtain weapons and try to use force
to prevent a change in their neighborhood.
Perhaps a better example would be
Muslims moving into Marseille.
I used this example only because
most Americans know who "Archie Bunker" is.
(The inspiration for Archie Bunker was Alf Garnett,
the character from the BBC sitcom "Til Death Us Do Part",
on which "All in the Family" was based).
My question is:
Do these people have more or less rights
than the Palestinians who "lived there",
you refer to above?
>> The League of Nations created many entities
>> not always to the satisfaction of local residents.
>
> And that explains why the Israelis are in a
> constant state of war. The local residents weren't
> consulted.
You mean they should have taken a poll?
Really, there wasn't anything whiched represented
"local residents" which could have been consulted.
That's the point of my "Queensian" story above,
and that's the lie of all those who say
that the Jews stole the Palestinians' country.
BTW, prominent ME Arab leaders sup****ted
Jewish immigration into the ME, and said so.
(references on request)
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