Personally I am not opposed to or in favour of settling people anywhere in the cotext of the present discussion - what I favour is not under discussion. I merely asked where you, with the hindsight that we all use, would have allowed them to settle (a bit paternalistic but I suppose that inherent in your arguments is the implication that you would have the victorious Allies help them by enforceing the carving out of a new State).
My point is that wherever they were settled someone would have been, if not displaced, at least upset and similar troubles would have brewed over the years to those the Israelis now have. Just look at the ethnic troubles in Yugoslavia with the artificial boundaries there and the movement in Germany for compensation for the Germans turfed out of East Germany by the Russians and Poles in 1945 and thereafter. Other examples of ethnic/religious problems re land settlement/political supremacy - the Basques, Northern Ireland, Chechnyia, the Kurds and so on. My arguments had nothing to do with the Jewish God - or any other God for that matter - and I am sure that for many Jews and Israelis (as well as people who settled in Israel) the same applies Garth Cartledge > From: John Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 17/12/2004 8:22:30 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: Re: [RHETORIC] why he posted this crap- answer from Hal > Smith > >You are opposed to setting a jewish state in Europe because they were not > >welcome there so you favor putting them in the Middle-East where they are, > >what, welcomed with open arms? This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================== http://pnews.org/ (links) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) =============================================================== Sub/Unsub [pnews-l - rhetoric] :: http://pnews.org/signup.shtml =============================================================== ================== FIGHT THE RIGHT! ==================
