John Giorgis said: > 2) I think that the history of the Israel/Palestine problem is highly > unlikely to be repeated in other conflicts in the future.
Suppose some manner of Kurdistan were produced and various Turkish and Arab groups expelled or otherwise displaced. Wouldn't that be quite a similar situation? Weren't the ethnic realignments in the Balkans similar in some respects? > Thus, people who insist upon this discussion of the history > are fundamentally non-serious in the pursuit of a solution. I find this a pretty strange statement. Surely at worst, understanding the history is orthogonal to resolving the problem. To say that anybody who'd like to understand the origins of a situation is "fundamentally non-serious" about a solution is a nice rhetorical flourish, but not particularly fair. Rich, who thinks that probably sounds more confrontational than he'd planned, but whose young cousin just arrived and demanded help with homework so he's going to send it now rather than throw it onto the vast pile of draft emails. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
