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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (4112)	5/9/2002 8:20:01 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

From the little i've read on this, the first zionists found relatively underused land they were able to buy and use without evicting any of the peasant farmers who had held parcels under the system of usufruct, and who had been legally but not physically dispossessed by the corruption of the ottomans in 1858 ..... so if nobody's hurt, i don't see what's wrong with that, they become palestinians as far as i'm concerned .... later zionists however had slimmer pickings, and chose to 'buy' from the effendis the titles to lands from which they then evicted the indigenous ..... now to this you can say, the ottoman screwed the native, and you're right of course, but it is also true that the zionist played a crucial role in that screwing, and ended up with the benefit of the land ... so is that right, no i don't think it is Might will make it right, as long as you want to stay an armed camp surrounded by hostiles, because this is not 1700-1880 North America where you can just sweep with your cavalry from Virginia to the Pacific ... reality is Israel is being set up as a beachhead on an arab near-continent, it would be preferable to have good relations with the neighbours ... like us canucks, we're best friends with the US whether we like it or not ... now most of the pejorative stuff you come up with about the arabs i heartily agree with, strange primitive people, drastic religion ... interesting that judaism had a reformation in the form of christianity and then christianity had its own reformation, but islam has never had one ... overdue perhaps ... i'm available as a prophet for the right employment contract btw, and know most of the words to the dylan hymns by heart ... absolutely must garden right now .... later, Laz, brightness .... cheers [edit] - Laz - Aunque le arranques los pétalos, no quitarás su belleza a la flor = 'though you rip from it petals, you do not take from the flower its beauty' ... something like that, but more poetic .... Rabindranah [sp?] Tagore