SherriMunnerlyn
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- Jun 11, 2012
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Sorry, Coyote, but (even as a long-lapsed Roman) I cannot buy into this 'equivalency' that you weave here for us. I have mixed reactions to the rest of your post, but I can't let this item slide without at least a wee bit o' feedback."...The Palestinians have, over time, become a coherent people as coherent as the Israelis..."
The identity of an Israeli is by-and-large the identify of a Jew. Not all Jews are Israelis but nearly all Israelis are Jews - metaphorically speaking. It is the Jewish Homeland. The Home Base. The MotherShip. Eretz Israel - a concept stretching back 3,000 years or more.
When the Palestinians have a land which their genetic and/or spiritual ancestors occupied 3,000 years back in time as a recognizable Palestinian entity and when the Palestinians have experienced 1,900 years of Disapora and pogrom and persecution and expellings and when they have lost 6,000,000 of their men, women and children to genocide and when they have held themselves together as a recognizable People and Language and Belief System through all of that and then bounced back and retaken their Sacred Ancestral Lands after a 1,900 year-long absence and then held it against all comers and incredible odds...
Then... and ONLY then... will I (as one man's opinion) concede the sort of Equivalency that you are suggesting here.
The amount of suffering (and resultant cohesion) experienced by the Palestinians, compared to that experienced by the Jews, is rather like comparing a flea to an elephant.
That's admittedly a personal opinion and relativistic, but there's a fairly strong case for such a perspective.
Or so it seems to yours truly... ;-)
You seem to lack knowledge of ZIONISTS colonizing Palestine. We started the 1900s with Jews only 10 percent of the population and the other 90 percent were nonJew Palestinians. And Israel only became a nation in 1948 and it was by virtute of a UN Partition Plan that also legitmized an Arab State. The intl authorities agree the borders of the Palestinian State include East Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza. The problem is Israel refuses to remove her soldiers and illegal settlers from these lands and end her Occupation of Palestine.