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To: marcos who wrote (9553)4/17/2002 9:06:11 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French...

And part of France used to be part of Germany. Other parts of France long ago used to be controlled by the king of England. That king's ancestors took over England from the people who where living there at the time in 1066. The US conquered lands that where previously used by "native Americans" (really a lousy term I was born here so I'm a native American, but Indians is a lousy term as well because it also refers to other people, and what other choices do I have?). Millions of Pakistanis and Indians (in India) were force to leave when India was partitioned. Should the Pakistanis and Indians have a "right of return"? Should whites blacks and asians leave North America so it can be returned to the decedents of those who arrived thousands of years ago rather then mere hundreds?

Maybe Israel's offer wasn't enough but the Ghandi quote or the map of the Jewish settlements have little to do with this. No offer is ever likely to be a lot better then that one in terms of total land area. It might be better in terms of not breaking up the West Bank as much, but your talking about differences at the margin, terrorism is not the answer to trying to an impasse in the negotiations.

All this "fighting back" by using suicide bombers against civilians is doing is making it less and less likely that the Palestinians will get their own independent nation any time soon.

Tim
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