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To: tejek who wrote (237463)6/16/2005 4:33:46 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 1572942
 
Re: Israel was not formed from thin air. Treaties were signed and land was passed through the UN to its government from the UK.

But those "treaties" were as flimsy as the one between Indians and Dutchmen that recorded the "sale of Manhattan". In 1948, most of the world outside Europe and North America was still made up of colonies belonging to European empires --especially the Arab world. So much for Woodrow Wilson's pet principle of "self-determination"! The creation of Israel was not a matter of right, it was an act of might --of colonial might, that is.

Reminder:

The Sale of Manhattan
De verkoop van Manhattan

The story of how the Dutch bought Manhattan was popularized by nineteenth-century American historians and artists who depicted a scene in which Dutchmen in black Calvinist attire dealt with Native Americans dressed up like nineteenth-century Plains Indians. All that is really known about this event is from a letter written by Pieter Schagen, a Dutch West India Company official. In 1626 Schagen wrote the directors of the company that Governor Peter Minuit had purchased the island from the Indians in exchange for goods worth sixty Dutch guilders. Later, historians somehow calculated that sixty seventeenth-century Dutch guilders were worth twenty-four nineteenth-century U.S. dollars, the figure that entered the history books as the "price" for which Manhattan was sold.

The actual story is probably more complicated. The Native American tribes at that time were unfamiliar with the European practice of buying and selling land--they simply did not think of land as something that could be sold. Whatever their intention, the Indians' "sale" was to have important consequences, as the Dutch chose the island as the location for their chief settlement in New Netherland.

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