To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (56 ) 12/6/2003 11:25:35 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to 'they weren't "Palestinians" yet ' - doesn't matter what you choose to call them, they are human beings and indigenous to Palestine, you cannot remove their basic human rights by adding or taking away any particular appellation ... it also doesn't matter that the territory was mandated to the brits, or that it was ruled before then by the ottomans, and before that periodically by the crusaders, and before that who cares - none of that stuff matters when our moral intuition tells us that indigenous have inalienable human rights, punto ... result of the creation of Israel ... was that about 800,000 Jews from the Arab lands became refugees 'result of the 'creation' of 'Israel', which as an expressly jewish state being set up on muslim lands would be somewhat likely to be viewed as a threat by muslims, don't you think .... considering that zionists knew full well they were dealing with many millions of ignorant people subject to such a whacko religion, they might have chosen a better site for their project, taken Uganda when it was offered to Herzl and company for instance, if they'd gone in there and done the bloody thing right away pre-1918 the indigenous would now be either completely subjugated or killed or run off, and we wouldn't have the [ahem---->] Geneva Accord to discuss todaybtselem.org Zionism is wrong from the Torah viewpoint, not because many of its adherents are lax in practice or even anti-religious, but because its fundamental principle conflicts with the Torah. ' - jewsnotzionists.org
