Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
>
> You are referring to the Balfour Declaration. It indicated British support
> for the establishment in Palestine of a homeland for the Jewish people -
> not, explicitly in the negotiations that led up to the Declaration, a State.
> But, more to the point, Britain did not have sovereignty over Palestine, and
> so the declaration was of no legal import for the Palestinians. Countries do
> not have the right to give away the lands of other countries.
Sorry, but I don't understand this. Operating on the
principle that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is
negotiable", what better to give away than what you don't
have any claim to?
I think some of Chris Reuss's recent postings indicate
the ugliness of the "Isreali"/Zionist side of the problem,
although I certainly do not propose that the Palestineans
are any "better", just more cheated. Perhaps they
all deserve the fate of the two protagonists of
Frank Norris's novel MacTeague (Eric von Stroheim's film GREED) -->
which took place in a different desert.
Except that most of the people, including many of the
combatants, are innocent victims. Read Elsa Morante's
novel _History: A Novel_. Or a document I saved from the
bitbucket, by a German WWII "ex-combatant":
http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/Grassroot.html
I think Winston Churchhill should personally have
donated his country home for a kibbutz (Ok, a
transhipment depot...). That would
have been a meaningful gesture.
\brad mccormick
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