On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Venkat, The maps you pointed out (http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=1305) show one of the many brutal aspects of political Zionism. Obviously, there are several dimensions to this situation that maps alone cannot express:
What i find most frightening is that every israeli i have met (i have met quite a few in Kenya, they are big players in east africa... specially in the construction, horticulture and arms business....) - has a an almost fanatical belief in this "divine right" or "historical" (2000 year old) right....to land. Apart from that I have heard them in all seriousness believe that israel is democratic (v/s a palestinian-arab dictatorship....)....and so on... Given their own history of the holocaust, one would imagine a more sensitized people, unfortunately, that never seems to be the case. None of them had ever met or spoken to a palestinian (except for a few, who generally worked military checkposts while serving compulsory military duty.......). There seems to have been a massive social and cultural brainwash of people ..... Its not surprising.... I see parallels between india and pakistan..especially how difficult the two governments have made it is for people from the two countries to meet ... it is probably easier for an indian to meet a pakistani in the USA or the UK... than in india or pakistan....
