Response to SOmething to think of
People always quote "biblical" times when refering to the
question of Israel/Palestine. The bible also says that people
lived to be hundreds and hundreds of years old, turned water
into wine, and all sorts of unbelievable things.
If I am living in my apartment in Chicago, which I have occupied
for the past ten years, and the mayor of New York decides that
my apartment now belongs to the residents of New York who
survived the WTC, because the New York Housing Code from
1776 says that it does - I'm not leaving. In fact, not only will I not
leave, I will bear arms against the people trying to steal from me
and justify it with a code that was not written by me, does not
pertain to me, and is not legally enforceable in the time and
place in which I live.
That said, I agree with Zak and Eyal (how that's possible I'm not
sure). Israel could admit - yes the Brits stole your land for us.
Palestine could admit - yeah maybe we do want to drive you into
the sea. At the moment - to paraphrase the heinous remarks
made by Golda Meir - the radicals on both sides seem to love
the martyrdom more than their children.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if it turns out the Buddhists (or someone
beside the big three) are actually the one's with the right story
and the rest of the religious zealot crazies are condemned to
come back? Or maybe that's already the case, and explains why
this same stupid situation is going on and on and on - about to
plunge the whole stupid world into WWIII - over a piece of land
that's almost too small to find on a map.
Created By: Claire O'Connor