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To: michael97123 who wrote (81808)	3/13/2003 2:25:36 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

By "non-status-quo" power, I mean a nation who has unresolved territorial disputes, who seeks to increase the territory they hold. Nations who seek to expand outward, who are not satisfied with what they have now, who want more than what the world thinks they should have. Calling Israeli policy in the West Bank "colonization" is exactly what almost every nation in the world (other than the U.S. and of course Israel) calls it. That is the global consensus. You may disagree, but you are in a small minority (outside the U.S.) Colonization is when a strong tribe sends their people to live on a weak tribe's land, to permanently change the demographics. And that is exactly what Israel has been doing. I think it is reasonable to argue that Jews have an ancient claim to the land, or that they need it for overriding security reasons. Or that they have to maintain military control (which is different than needing to colonize), as long as the Palestinians won't accept the existence of a Jewish State. But current policy meets any definition of "colonization", unless we are going to get into the same type of sophistry that says Taliban soldiers are "unlawful combatants" not "prisoners of war", and therefore we can throw the Geneva Conventions out the window. Americans, and Israelis, like to think of themselves as ethical people. But they also like to do some unethical things. This conflict is resolved by a lot of SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil. we simply re-define our terms, and pretend we are PureAsTheDrivenSnow.