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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (236922)7/18/2007 1:20:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Despite the fact that I never forget that Israel is in fact guilty of being a "land thief" I also don't fail to realise that the Arabs, if they would only chose to think a little more clearly, should realise that all the real estate in Palestine is much more valuable BECAUSE all those Jews are there.

That's certainly how about half of the "indigenous" Palestinians wound up in Palestine - they came from Syria or Egypt seeking economic opportunities that existed only in Palestine because of Zionist development. But the Arabs are like someone who sells what he thinks is a useless patch of swamp to some foolish investor, then is outraged when he sees the investor drain the swamp and turn it into farms and subdivisions. Then he says the investor is a thief who stole the land. Then he tries to take the land back.

Israel is no more a land thief, and much less, than any other country. What people point to as 'proof' are actions taken for self-preservation during a war where they would have been slaughtered if they had lost, or settlements built on government land taken in defensive wars. People who conveniently don't learn the history point to these things as "theft". The history is so complicated, the Pals provide a much simpler story.
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