Ok, they are people, living there, on the ground. Cool. I get it. If they stop calling for the destruction of Israel, stop lobbing rockets at people, and sending of their children as homicide bombers, this could be worked out.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > > I'm saying that there is a strong group of people whose families have > lived in that area for many many generations, who possess a common > identity and who are being fucked over by people who try to argue away > their existence and rights based on lawyerly parsing of dubious minor > points of history instead of actually looking at the real families on > the ground that really exist in a real place today. > > I like learning history, I love seeing the changing boundaries on > maps, of tribes and nations, wars and truces. Cool stuff. In this > case, however, the arguing over details like "protectorate" versus > "country" is being used to take focus away from actual real people who > are alive today. And that is an injustice. Figure out the problems of > the actual people in the region, then everyone is welcome to go back > to debating the intricacies of empire building and collapse. > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:19 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Are you claiming they are a separate ethnic or racial people? > > > > From my understanding they are Arabs. > > > > As to India, I was wrong, guess that's why the Pakistan/Kashmir stuff is > so > > heavy. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349977 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
