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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (156508)1/18/2005 9:49:13 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi Neocon; Re: "Second, it was not Arab land, it was Turkish land, subsequently administered by the British under a League of Nations mandate."

This is a rather shallow argument. One might as well argue that Italy or Germany are not Italian or German land, as most or all of their territories were controlled by other countries until quite recently.

By the way, I just finished a fascinating book on Kossuth and the Hungarian revolution of 1848:
www3.sympatico.ca

My reason for mentioning it here is that one of the several major errors of the Hungarian nationalists was to piss off the other nationalities (Croats, Romanians, Slavs, etc.) within the borders of the traditional Hungarian territory. Their attitude towards certain of these national groups was that since they didn't have any historical claims to ruling a territory, they didn't deserve one now.

With the passage of 150 years, all these various nationalities now have their own nation states, and the Hungarian arguments against granting them autonomy sound like simple nationalistic crapola.

What I'm saying here is that your failure to appreciate Arab rights of nationhood (in regions where their power is dominant) is basically imitation legalistic crapola that is incompatible with the way this planet has been run for thousands of years.

-- Carl
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