Good ... good for you, Nadine ... that is a really big step, to come to terms with existence of the Other
'Palestine was inhabited', well how about that
Yes, technology is wonderful stuff isn't it, makes it possible to crowd ever-more people into small plots of land, where they can still sustain life, if you can call it that ... time was when the hunter-gatherer roamed wild and free over vast areas, before the farmer came with barbwire and fenced him out, or in, or whichever .... classic culture clash, that one - natives with a life but no cash to buy machinery get steamrollered by outsiders who could scrape up a downpayment on iron ... happens all over, it is a goodly part of the root cause of certain disputes with which i've been involved on the seventeenth parallel
That the foreigners moving in had the technology to plant more soles per hectarea does not give them the right to ignore the presence of the indigenous majority and fence them in with the foreign barbwire and bulldoze their homes and olive trees with the foreign armoured D9s, and set up a foreign Excludostaat ... foreigners had the right to apply for immigration, to observe the laws, to vote once given the privilege of naturalisation, to mind their own business and get along with their native neighbours ... nothing, not their technology nor their cash to buy it, nor all the various extraneous arguments you use, gave them the right to seize the land of others |
