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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (9687)1/1/2006 9:57:49 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Crimson > a 50 year record of horrible crimes against a largely defenseless Palestinian population must be recorded as one of the great crimes of the 20th century and indeed of world history.

Bad it is but I wouldn't go as far as that.

The main "ethical" problem, if I can put it that way because ethics is a very subjective value, is the colonization of Palestine by the Zionists happened a century too late, in fact, during a period when European countries "decolonized" themselves. In other words, it was an historic anachronism. Indeed, the idea of Zionism was a 19th Century concept. As you know, there were terrible atrocities committed by the Spanish in Mexico and South America. The history of the white settlers in North America, Africa and Australia was hardly an example of human rights. Slavery, the theft of people, is yet another atrocity committed by the white nations mainly on black ones which has largely been forgotten. Also think of Cambodia, Rwanda and so on. Next to these events, the Israel/Palestinian situation pales into insignificance. One can only imagine that had the colonization of Palestine happened in the 19th Century, it is likely all the "locals" would have been exterminated and no-one would have said a word.
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