On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:04:50PM -0700, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > local population fought a war of independence. In many ways it wasn't > that different from us in 1776 - except, of course, that the British > didn't intend to kill every American colonist, as the Arabs _did_ and > _do_. Israel doesn't depend on Europe for protection.
I think the best analogy I've heard so far was Native Americans = Palestinians. Although I would formulate an alternate history where the migrants from Asia to North America never became isolated from Asia, and so most of the western and midwestern states were populated by more powerful Native American civilizations than actually existed. Then the Pilgrims arrived and began trying to establish their colony, and the Native Americans wanted to kill them all, and were possibly powerful enough to do it. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
