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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (2183)	1/13/2003 4:31:42 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Demanding to return to a homeland that you never lived in, nor did your parents, is about as clear an example of an historical claim as I can think of. I don't think Germany, France, England or Croatia would take very seriously my claim to have a "right of return" based on ancestry.

To: zonder who wrote (2183)	1/13/2003 5:16:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I am not sure if demanding to return to your home land (like the Greek Cypriots are now doing) is the same thing as a "historical claim" by a nation to a territory, kicking out the current inhabitants. How many generations marks the cutoff between "home land" and "historical"? It's like the Israeli, who being accused of not letting the Palestinian refugees return to their homeland, asked, "The refugees should come back after 50 years?" "Yes." "After 100 years?" "Yes." "After 1000 years?" "Yes." "After 2000 years?" "Yes!" "That's me. I came back." Another argument that always seems to work in one direction only.