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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 (78244)	7/23/2006 5:40:21 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Any name of the states are irrelevant anyway. What the Europeans call them or the Ottoman called them is irrelevant. The people were organized by custom and tradition. Just because the countries were created and partitioned and called the Mandate of another nation did not erase what was there before. They were simply overlays of the existing fabric of society by those nation of superior military and or economic strength. Was the same in America. Indigenous peoples were forced off their land by armies, economics, disease and shear number of immigrants. In this world in which we live, might is often right. The rights of the Palestinian peoples was agonized over in detail by the UN: mideastweb.org They recognized that the imposition of a new state in Israel for the Jews and really the creation of two new states would be met with opposition in that land. They tired to create two impossible states, with shared economics, but separate lands. It was a mistake. Interesting that all of the nations in Europe would not accept the homeless Jews after WWII, instead they shipped their problem to the middle east. That created a massive shift in the demographics, which was unsettling to the local populations. It's not unlike the unsettling condition created in the US by illegal immigration of Mexicans. The republican congress called for stiff penalties and a rounding up of illegals. They called for militarization of the border. The building of a wall. Now the solution to the illegal immigrant problem here in the US is simple, Simply make it illegal to hire illegals and enforce it. Before you know it illegals would stop coming. The solution in Palestine is much more complex, especially now since there is a majority of Jews in the region. Perhaps this is why the republicans wanted to stem the tide of immigrants here? In short the partitioning of Palestine was poor decision, one that is haunting us to this day. I fear that there is not enough middle ground between the factions to find a solution in. But I fear worse the throwing up of hands and giving up on trying to find that solution, for the alternative is a continuation of these bloody wars.