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To: marcos who wrote (57)12/7/2003 12:09:03 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 190
 
If the Jews had moved to Uganda, you'd be boo-hooing for the native Ugandans, with the added the flourish that Jews obviously had no right to be in Uganda, they had nothing to do with the place.

There are tons of people who've been living and moving all over the mideast for millenia, Jews, Arabs, Druze, Turks, Circassians, et. al.. Where does this cry of "no jews are allowed to move to Palestine, it's muslim land!" come from? It was Jewish land too, what about Jerusalem? Would it have been okay if the Zionists had just tried to settle Jerusalem, which was already Jewish?

Are you an Arab? Are you a Muslim? I can understand, if not respect, why Muslim Arabs make the argument - once Muslim land, always Muslim land! It was nice of the Jews to invest all their rotten colonialist money and effort into the place, now they should leave it to us. I understand why the Arabs say this.

But why do you parrot it? Why do you care so much more for the rights of "indigenous" Arabs (btw, many of them were recent arrivals too) than for the Jews? If the Arabs had managed to massacre the Jews in 1948 or 1967 would you have cheered?