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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (28547)	2/10/2004 4:34:51 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793670

first they bought the land and built their state You have perhaps never heard of the Balfour declaration, and the wholehearted support offered to the Zionists by the greatest empire of the day? Where do you think the money for those land purchases came from? Do you think the Zionist would have been able to buy so much land if the pound, and to a lesser extent the franc, didn’t have such enormously distorted values in other parts of the world? Israel was built on the support of the Western powers, principally Britain (the only power that really mattered in those days). Without that support, it would not exist. Anybody else who wants a state will also need to build it first. It certainly helps to enlist the support of an enormously wealthy and powerful sponsor. In order to do that, though, you have to be special. If the Tutsis want a state, they will have to build it too. Maybe some modern day Balfour will come along and offer to approve, encourage, and defend the settlement of the Tutsis on land where some other poor group of schmucks with no concept of statehood (or little else beyond survival) is trying to eke out a living. Of course that won’t happen, and even if it did, they wouldn’t have access to hard currency of exorbitant local value with which to buy the land. Nope, won’t happen. They aren’t special. And yes, the European treatment of the Jews made it necessary, well before that treatment culminated in the Holocaust. I assume, then, that you support the establishment of independent states in Chechnya, and Aceh, and Mindanao, and anywhere else where a minority ethnic group is getting stomped? It permeates nearly every bit of reporting that comes from the Middle East I actually see a fair variety of reporting coming out of the Middle East. All I see here is you complaining that none of that reportage is compatible with your particular personal assumption that Israel is perfect and can do no wrong. Since your positions on this issue are notoriously and almost monomaniacally skewed toward one end of the bell-shaped curve, I don’t see how anyone’s failure to conform to your prejudices can be cited as an example of a double standard.