This is apples and oranges. People live on the land. They have rights in 
the land. There are commons which are a public trust. These are 
public/state land. Focus on the villages and the farms. Focus on the 
businesses and the homes. Palestinians were displaced and forbidden to 
return. Get a little compassion for them. There is a fog here about 
perception. Try to see through that fog.

Hank


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, donnella whitacre wrote:

> 
> hank: jordan was part of the partition, so israel didn't get that much.
> 22 states were made that didn't exist either.  the arabs lived in a
> fudal sociey, the effindis made the lower classes work the land? they
> didn't own it any more than black slaves in the south owned the farms
> they worked on. none the less i believe they have gotten quite enough of
> it. you made a good point however about them being used by the land
> owners and blackmailed by them. but i guess we shouldn't question how
> arabs treat arabs? only jews? at least they can vote and have a lot more
> rights than in the surrounding arab countries. no one says israel is
> perfect, but i would like to see a lot more criticism of the barbarism
> of arab countries and a lot less on israel trying no matter whether you
> agree with it to defend themselves from terrorist attacks.  any one got
> any ideas besides just giving it all to them and moveing. i would like
> to hear it.
>    



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