| Simon Robbins 2005-03-30, 7:48 am |
| "Mitch_A" <naman@pacbell.nospam.net> wrote in message
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quote:
> The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about
> that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called
> Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds
> ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the
> land in the 1967 war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, the West Bank was owned
> by Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians."
>
> As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as
> basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Palestinians," weeping
> for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation."
There was never a nation of Israel of that scope either. A collection of
small kingdoms and tribal homelands does not equate to the size of the land
given over for Jewish rule after WW2. Even the scope of the kingdom in the
time of David and Solomon is now believed by historians to be grealy
exaggerated in scale and grandeur. Israel is not the reconstitution of a
once grand country, it's been the creation of a new one based of the
vagaries of religious history.
Considering the Jewish right to be there: Does a third-generation American
have a right to live in Ireland, England or wherever else their ancestors
came from? And we're talking about peoples who migrated out over the period
of a thousand years, not a coherent body of refugees recently exiled.
I sympathise with anybody's right to live in peace, and many Arab nations
and influences are doing more harm than good to resolve the problems, but it
seems to me this "comedian" is just a band-wagon jumping racist, spouting
thinly disguised propaganda.
Si
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