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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: skinowski who wrote (120451)11/26/2003 10:29:53 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 

After many centuries of persecutions, expulsions and massacres Jews migrated to the area which is now Israel. The result was a modern country where previously was mostly desert.

That was one result. The other result was that the people who already lived there were offered a choice between expulsion and residence in a State formed on terms designed to exclude them.

You seem to think that this was wrong.

I didn’t say that. I pointed out that the pre-existing population thought it wrong, and that they obtained a certain degree of sympathy from their neighbors. This is not terribly difficult to understand, given the choic presented to them by the unwelcome settlers.

You seem to imply that Israelis should go back to the countries of their forefathers, which most of them have never seen.

That is not what I suggested. I pointed out that the Palestinian desire to make the Israelis go away is no more or less valid than the oft-expressed Israeli desire to make the Palestinians go away.

Will two wrongs make right? I think this is absurd.

Is it absurd to suggest that acknowledgement of the first wrong might be a step toward averting the second?

I wrote in response to an article that complained that the Arabs do not seem able to characterize Zionism as “the expression of a people coming home”. I simply pointed out that this inability is perfectly natural, since there was in fact no homecoming involved, just the expulsion of the weak by the strong.

I don’t see any morally superior case on either side, though one might argue that the initial aggressor bears the greatest responsibility.
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