> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:32 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Where are the European hypocrites? > > --- Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, choose some other state. I was just trying to > > make people imagine > > how they might feel if a foreign Israel was set up > > in the Palestinian > > US. I'd imagine quite a lot of Americans would be > > rather upset about > > the whole thing, and try to expel it, and keep > > trying to do so for > > decades using whatever methods are available. > > Furthermore, many would > > continue trying to do so long after it became > > apparent that the > > destruction of the new state wasn't possible. > > > > (I'm not picking on America: the same thing would > > probably happen in > > Britain and many other countries too.) > > > > Rich > > Yeah, but there have been Jews in that area since > before recorded history and they made up a very large > proportion of the population before the Israeli War of > Independence.
You know, I do sympathize with this point of view, but by those standards, the United States belongs to Native Americans, doesn't it? (....or do you feel perhaps that because they lost the war(s), they lost their rights for the land? I'm curious about your opinion.) > > And it is simply inconceivable that Americans, at > least, would decide that the solution to the problem > was genocide - while it is quite clear that the > Palestinian groups - the PLO very much included - wish > to finish what Hitler started. > I'm too lazy to make a case out of it, but there's definitely an argument to be made that this is precisely what was done to the Sioux, the Apaches, the Navaho.... Oh, the methods may be different, but the goal and end result will be the same. Jon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
