Astonishing? It was their land to begin with.......the Zionists finagled their way in.
That, of course, depends on how far back you want to go. That land has changed hands many, many, many times. I don't know its whole history, but I know enough to know that if you pick the right point in history, almost every race and religion could claim it as their land, including, at certain points during the Crusades, European Christians.
The idea of historical ownership as creating a perpetual right is simply not the way the world works. If it did, we would have to give the whole of the US back to the American Indians, Mexico back to the Incas or whichever tribes were there when the Spanish landed, etc. And, of course, parts of Poland would go back to Germany, along with parts of France, Bulgaria and Romania would go back to the control of Constantinople, England would go back to the Celts (what right did those Normans have to invade it in 1066?), and on and on.
That's simply not the way the world works. Get used to it.
Plus, as I recall, not long ago you were the one who was saying we shoudn't be backward looking, that the problem would never be solved that way, but that we should only be looking forward. Which was good advice then, and is good advice now. So I suggest you take it. |
