kvetch
Devout UK Hindu-Jew
it actually makes no difference in israel's case which date or culture you usedo you consider acquisition through war to be stealing land in all cases? Do you believe settlement of an area which is inhabited by others generally to be stealing?Are population migrations ever not stealing the land of people if those people still reside in the area? What defines the kind of ownership which excludes other people's right to settle? I just want to make sure I understand what makes any settlement here different from the settling of, for example, the US or Australia or much of Europe.
two hundred years or more, for one thing.
other, non-western, cultures have different ideas of property, land ownership, and borders for another.
you are aware, i hope, that during the settlement of those aforementioned areas, slavery and indentured servitude was "in vogue". shall we wind the cclock back on that too.
I'm wondering how you came up with "200" years. It seems rather arbitrary. Is there something about the 200th year which then precludes others' settling which was absent in year 199? How long had there been native Americans on the north American continent before European settlers settled in? What about Aborigines in Australia?
Since you bring up that these are Western cultures and that non-Western cultures have different ideas, which idea should be applied to the mid East? Are there distinctions between the Turkish standard, the European one and the Egyptian one? What about the Greek or Roman one?
If you are against rewinding the clock then are you saying that you want to start from zero right now and accept facts on the ground as they are, or do you simply want to rewind to a particular spot and no further?
because every single day right now they are stealing more and more palestinian land
and will do in the foreseeable future
israel is like dracula...needs pal land like dracula needed blood to stay alive
its a vicious sadistic beast; uniquely so on our planet now
and israel says it is a democracy and even a light unto all nations with "the most moral army in the world"
i.e. it asks to be judged by the very highest standards
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