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To: marcos who wrote (161142)	4/27/2005 2:20:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

'1. any considerable territory demarcated by specific conditions: region or district: mountainous country' ... Great. No problem. "country" can be used as synonomous with "region". The use is now old fashioned, but not yet archaic, as in "he wore a woolen vest, as was the custom of the inhabitants of that country". By this meaning, I can call any identifiable region a "country", for example, the Connecticut river valley, a clearly identifiable region. It doesn't imply that the inhabitants consider themselves a separate nation, lol.

To: marcos who wrote (161142)	4/27/2005 4:06:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If you mean country in the sense of "countryside", or in the sense of an area of terrain, than the statement is no different than "Would you sell your land?" But thanks for bringing it back towards the issue in your second paragraph ... which ends pretty weak imho, you understand how the indigenous would 'feel' violated ... kind of indicates it's all about their feelings, nothing to do with their inherent right to the status of human beings ... I use feel not to assert that they were not actually violated, but to avoid directly asserting that they where. Probably some of them where, and others may have felt that way without having their rights violated in any serious way. The question is a little more complex than a simple presentation of the Palestinians as unmitigated victims of the Israelis would imply. Tim