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Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Without this US support the genocide against the Jews started by the Nazis would have been completed by the Arabs.
============ There is no foundation for this statement. It is pure conjecture.
I think that we are all guilty for what happened to the Jews under the Nazis.
Ever since then we have over sympathaized with their cause to the detriment of other people's rights.
Prior to the UN giving the Jews land that rightfully belonged to the Palestinians, you will recall that Theodor Herzl asked the British to help them find a homeland for the Jews. The British agreed to give part of Uganda to the Jews. This proposal had received formal British assent. If the Jews had accepted that (and for argument's sake, let us say they called it Israel) and if the Ugandans wanted their land back by driving the Jews out of Uganda would that be wrong? Would you be saying the same thing to them i.e. they "NEVER ACCEPTED ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EVEN EXIST". And would the Ugandan natives be considered terrorists?
So yes, what the Nazis did to the Jews was wrong and nobody will dispute that but two wrongs do not make a right. Nobody disputes the facts that the Jews need to live in peace. The question, I think, is wheter we agree with the concept of Zionism. Many Jews do not buy into the this concept. To be anti-Zionist is NOT synonymous with being anti-semitic.
If the Jews claim Palestinian lands as a historical right (over 2000 years ago) then should all countries be ceding rights to the "original" inhabitants on the same basis - and their history does not even go back that long, e.g. Australia, USA, Canada, practically all of South America? And if these original inhabitants started fighting back like Began and his Zionist friends did with terrorist attacks to secure their own state, would they be considered terrorists?
Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA
