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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More of the saga
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:29:02 EDT
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Don Black writes:
>     As far as Israeli being illegitimate, I believe that's fairly obvious.
>     The United Nations had no right to order that a new nation be formed on
>territory that already had an indigenous, flourishing population.  The 
>Palestinians had been in the area for 2000 years.  They owned it rightfully.
>Previously the Israelites and the Jews had both abandoned the territory and
>had made no claim to it.  (Who'd want a sand dune anyway?)
>     The very fact that the UN did make such an order shows that it is no
>respector of nations or civil rights.
>     Now, since the Jewish refugees had been slowly moving into the area 
>over a couple of centuries, they could well have worked their way into the
>local governments, and legiimately voted to accept the war survivors.  But
>they didn't.  They stole the Palestinian lands, houses, businesses, and
>drove the Palestinian people into the desert.
>
>     Therefore, on the basis of what is right and just, I oppose the Israeli
>State.

The same argument could be used to say that we should give North America back
to the Indians. Hmmm.
-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_