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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78051)	7/14/2006 11:06:42 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>And if your conscience is so very tender for the Arabs, why don't you give your house back to the Indians and return to the land of your ancestors? Do be sure to buy the property legally, but down the road some other lower achieving ethnic group will probably accuse you of having stolen it anyway.<< Nadine - It seems you've almost grasped my point. You accused the Arabs of believing they have the divine right to hold any piece of land they've captured, and damn the original inhabitants. Obviously, the history of the world shows that many nations behave that way. Certainly we did, with respect to this country. The Brits did for a long time all over the world, and only gave up most of their empire because they could no longer control it military. The Israelis feel that they have a divine right to the land they occupy because God told them it was theirs. There's a claim it's hard to dispute in court. But there were virtually no Jews living in what is now Israel for a couple of thousand years, up until the 1920s, when the Zionist movement started to get into full swing and they started to move there. BTW, I don't know that the Israelis didn't just capture land. What was it they did in the Six Day War? Sure, they were attacked, and sure, they had a right to defend themselves. But they did capture quite a bit of territory then, and they do seem to feel that they now own all the territory. I have little sympathy for the Arabs and none for the fanatical Islamists. I'm just pointing out that the Arabs' attitude with respect to holding land doesn't differ much from ours or Israel's. - Allen