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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78052)	7/14/2006 1:16:44 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Did the Palestinians believe that Britain was the "legal manager"? Or were the Brits the legal managers of Palestine in the same sense that the US is the legal manager of Iraq? Is the UN suddenly infallible? I thought the right wing wanted to see the UN disbanded? I think the UN made a huge error in claiming Palestine for Israel. That said if any Jew wanted to live in Palestine they could have done so without the sanctioning of such by some "legal manager". The uprooting of the existing culture, politics and livelihood first by the "legal managers" and then by their assigns, the Jews, has left a huge hole in the soul of the Palestinians that were displaced. They have had to suffer discrimination and economic sanctions from their new "legal managers". I'm not surprised that the Arab response was war. The Indians responded with war to the advances of the Americans. So did the Mexicans. It all boils down to the definition of legal, which in this world can be immediately condensed to might makes right.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (78052)	7/14/2006 11:12:26 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>So you assert that the Jews have a right to Palestine. What defines their right? Right of 3000 years of association with their ancestral lands, right of purchase, right of state by transfer from the previous legal manager, Britain, and sanction by the UN, right of winning the wars that the Arabs started.<< Nadine - And how did Britain become the "legal manager" of that area? By voice vote? The whole concept of ownership of land is to some extent a legal fiction. Any plot of earth belongs to whomever the most powerful entity in the area says it belongs to. Those "ancestral lands" were always occupied by Arabs, too, and over the past 3,000 years the Arabs have been there continuously, unlike the Jews. - Allen