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To: E who wrote (27357)	9/15/2001 1:09:23 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 82486

This has all the earmarks of an occupation/occupied relationship. The Indians said the same thing about the British Raj in India. The problem is that occupations, no matter how justified or righteous in the eyes of the occupiers, lead to permanent resentment and foment. Tried to look for good-guys in the IRA? Not likely. Is there a rational cause? Absolutely. Is England likely to withdraw after 350 years of occupation of Ireland? No. No easy solutions that I can see. In 1948, the UN-sanctioned invasion of Palestine (and much later, the Jews from Russia) probably looked and felt a lot like an invasion of outsiders that, while FROM the area, had been gone so long as to have lost much of their claim. It probably also felt a lot like the Crusades. Just because we have a romantic notion of knights arrant going off defend Christendom, doesn't mean that indigenous people feel that way. So, E, do you see any easy solution here to generations of resentment? I just don't and don't expect one in my lifetime. It's too bad, but I think we just have to deal it.

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