Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: More of the saga Message-ID: <659@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:29:02 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.659 Posted: Sun Aug 18 03:29:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:29:56 EDT References: <3699@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 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_