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To: Elroy who wrote (194483)	8/2/2006 10:18:44 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Yeah, the deciding factor on the survival of the "colony" may be whether the newcomers outnumbered the existing population. Regardless, as usual, Israel doesn't really fit in with either category! Certainly not, from what I've read and seen. They either purchased their land outright from the Palestinians who had squatted on that land (since it all had previously been the property of the Ottoman Turks), or it was uninhabited. Of course, as a result of aggression by other countries, particularly Jordan, they have occupied and annexed parts of their land, in particular the area around Jerusalem and this is certainly controversial and possibly "illegal". Hawk