so they have enough money according to americans to pay for the ethnic cleansing of a whole other people and a new concieved trail of tears. The americans are so very wonderful in the solutions they concieve for other people.
What about the Palestinians christian dirt? Or do you think the christian palestian like the occupation? Or perhaps they are not the right ethnicity of the christians? or is it easier to engage in the promotion of a planning of ethnic cleansing if you brown-wash?
There is a sadly funny irony in a grossly bigoted commentary accusing another people of racist prejudice…
well, actually, it is the palestinian Muslims who are already doing a pretty good job of ethinc cleansing on their neighbors who are Palestinian Christians.
So you want to white-wash with a NY Post opinion piece by an extreme right anti-peace israeli writing for the NY post?
I can also learn from this same author about the evils of the international deal with the iranians and that the president obama is “throwing israel” to the wolves…
no. I was married once to a member of a Native American nation. I found the cultural ties to the tribe to be strong and significant. This was independent of the members’ religion, which actually was pretty varied. I may be ignorant of my own culture, but if you remove the religion from what it means to be Jewish, I’m not left with much I care about enough to organize a nation around it. And, as I said before, I’m not comfortable generally organizing a country around a particular religion.
Now, I should point out I guess, I’m not saying Israelis need to think like I think, or that they don’t have a “right” to any kind of country they want. I’m not offended by the existence of a* Jewish state*, I was just pointing out I don’t understand the motivation. (not that they should care).
My limited understanding of the situation is similar to this. I had a Jewish girlfriend in High School who tried to explain the whole Libya/Egypt/PLO vs Israel issue with, “Either you believe the Jews should have a homeland or they shouldn’t.” and I could only say, “I don’t quite understand why it has to be THERE in particular.”
I understand the preference due to historical ties, but since history records that the Children of Israel left the region and other cultures moved in, it always seemed to me to be somehow wrong for European powers to be giving away somebody else’s land – kinda like me saying “Here, Czarcasm. I’m sorry you dropped your favorite guitar. Take this one from Captain Kirk.”
And for us to do that again, giving bits of Australia away without asking Australians (or the Aborigines), really wouldn’t be any better.
So…you’re willing for all the Anglos to leave Australia and give the land back to the Aborigines?
Pretty damn near every square inch of the earth’s surface was seized by force from someone else living there first.
At least Israel has a fig-leaf of legitimacy, from the British Mandate, as seized from the Turks in war. Britain had pretty much the right to assign the parts where it wanted: that’s how Iraq and Syria and Lebanon and Jordan got their borders.
Messy all around, but, hey, let’s talk about Schleswig/Holstein.
Wow, nobody has provided a cost estimate. I was reminded of how the ancient Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel was cut apart and moved (to keep it from being submerged). Could the same be done with the temple mount? Take a shrine like Joseph’s Tomb (recently the site of commotions). You could easily move such a structure.
Also Jews have lived in Israel pretty much continuously for thousands of years. Not tons of Jews before migrations from Europe turned from a trickle to a flood after various pogroms in the 19th century, but they were still there. By the time Israel was announced, hundreds of thousands of Jews had been living there for decades or even were born there.
And I’m sure the Palestinians will be just hunky-dorey with one of the most significant landmarks in their faith being chopped up into bits and carried off to another continent.
Well, since there’s little hope for any sort of irredentism for us German-Irish mutts, I say we call dibs in that floating mass of Nikes and little plastic ducks in the Pacific