guyfawkes wrote: > Likewise all of America should be given back to > the native Indians... > There are no 'native Indians' in America because Indians are from India. Many of the native inhabitants of South America came from islands in the Caribbean. But it would probably be a mistake to give South America to the Jamaicans, wouldn't it?
North American native inhabitants came over from Siberia, but it would probably be a mistake to give North America to the Siberians. > ...and all of Australia to the native Australians. > Most native Australians came from Micronesia, but most of Micronesia is under water now. > Native Americans even have legal documents > granting them rights over various bits of land... > Maybe so, but around here the Apaches and the Cammanches invaded Texas and caused hell, so we killed most of them and sent the rest of the invaders to live in Oklahoma. > though every treaty the Indians made with the > white settlers was broken. > There are no American 'treaties' with India. And there is no 'America' - if there was, an Italian banking family owned by the Vespucci family would be the owner of North and South 'America'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci Christopher Columbus was standing on the beach near Port Royal, exchanging gifts with some of the native inhabitants. One of the natives said: "But Chris, why do you call us 'Indians'"? > Attempting to wind back 2000 years of conquest > and reconquest by creating Israel out of land > inhabited by people who had legal proof of > ownership was the most stupid thing the British > and the UN ever did. > There is no evidence that modern Israel was once 'invaded' by Jews descended from an Abraham of Ur, thousands of years ago. The modern Judeans are the descendants of the Caananites. The only known invaders of Judea were the Philistines, the 'boat people' that probably came over from the Aegean. Anyone living in Judea could be termed a 'Palestinian', but it is a fact that most of the so-called 'Palestinians' are Arabs from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria, who invaded Judea long before the modern state of Israel was founded. There are no 'native' Palestinians. Based on your logic, the 'Gaza strip' should be given back to the Egyptians. Read more: Subject: Selective Theology Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: Mon, Aug 12 2002 http://tinyurl.com/7g3sg2 Titles of interst 'The Mythic Past' Biblical Archaeology And The Myth Of Israel by Thomas L. Thompson Basic Books, 2000 http://tinyurl.com/9husvl 'The Bible Unearthed' Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finkelstein Free Press, 2002 http://tinyurl.com/6v99d4 'Who Wrote the Bible?' by Richard E. Friedman HarperOne, 1997 http://tinyurl.com/8xuwhh
