Brad, You said:
"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." When Greed started, it wasn't desert - it was green fields. Harry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brad wrote: >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 ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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