Re: Tragedy in Israel

[Doug]

Alberto Monteiro wrote:

> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> 
>>If my memory serves me correctly I think a big part of America used to belong to
>>the Brits? So you can call yourself very lucky the Brits weren't as keen on "new
>>England" as the Israeli's are on Israel. ;o)
>>
>>
> It never belonged to the Brits - not legitimately. It belonged to Spain and
> Portugal.


Of course all the world belonged to either one or the other. 
According to them, anyway.  And of course an argument could be made 
that none of the above had a legitimate claim to any of the new world.


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Doug

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