On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:44:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let's keep it simple... how about Jerusalem? Israel is the "Jewish > State". Jews are descendents of Judeans. Judea contained Jerusalem. > Note that i'm not saying that the Palestinians and whoever else has > lived in the area don't *also* have a claim to the lands/areas, i'm > just pointing out that the "Palestinians = Native Americans" statement > is a piece of inflammatory rhetoric which does not accurately reflect > the complicated and repetitious history of the Levant.
With the exception of "inflammatory rhetoric", I'll agree with that. As I said, in both cases, people who had their homes in an area for generations were forced off. I don't think it is inflammatory rhetoric to refer to that. Unless you are trying to forget horrible things, in which case I guess it could be considered inflammatory. In fact, perhaps the reason I misunderstood your point was that I already wrote something similar to what you state above... Erik: > In contrast, by my reckoning the European immigrants to America had much > less claim to the land they took than the Jews had to Israel. *** > Let's discuss something else, instead... Well, in addition, okay, but I'm not going to stop discussing the other subject as long as there is someone who is interested in discussing it. > like how it's cool that you have a domain name which is your name. > But then how come your email address is _ereuter_ and not _erikreuter_ > again, or _me_ or _you-know-who_ or something like that? Historical reasons :-) My first account was ereuter (actually, e-reuter, but I dropped the hyphen) and I got used to it. Ideally, I would have registered reuter.xxx and then I could have used erik for my account, but reuter.xxx were taken. (I imagine having almost the same name as a newservice didn't help) -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
