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Politics : The Castle
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To: tejek who wrote (2660)2/9/2004 1:03:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
From 700 AD to the 20th century, the land was ruled by Muslims

Yes but it was ruled for much of that period by Turks not by Arabs and when it was ruled by Arabs it still wasn't ruled by Palestinians.

It was ruled by Turkish Muslims. It was inhabited by Palestinian Arabs. Why does either data point give the Zionists the right to finesse the land away?

Both points where relevant to your specific argument. They showed how your point was irrelevant more then they addressed the wider question. However they do slightly touch on the wider question. The Israelis didn't conquer a Palestinian state and unlike the earlier Arab and Turkish overlords the Israelis have been willing to possibly allow such a state to come in to existence even if it means giving up a major fraction of the land they now control (which would not have been the case for the Turks or some of the other overlords of the region).

The Indians have received hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations and the Indians and their reservations are given a number of economic freebies. The Palestinians haven't done 1/1000000th as well.

The Indians where at time slaughtered and they where herded on to reservations. Their reparations and benefits are a pittance compared the amount of land they where forced to give up, and the reservations are more often then not places of poverty and dependence of the federal government. The best opportunity given to the Indians was assimilation in to a society dominated by non-Indians. The Palestinians certainly would not want assimilation in to a Jewish controlled state. Any Indians that did fight for any real independence where crushed not give a sovereign state under a peace treaty.

Tim
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