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Re: Israel and Palestine
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:30:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > Further I suppor the notion of trying (within limits, as Frank said) to find
> > and correct past injustices to the extent practical. That may well mean
> > unwinding a *lot* of land transactions in the US for example... I'd rather
> > do that and get closure, than continue to grant a blank check of guilt about
> > it to the chattering classes...
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> Do you think this would really be practical?
I am not sure but we'll never know unless we start trying to figure out how
to do it in detail. We would need to organise some set of stakeholders to
sit down and do it (perhaps the folks from a particular small region) with
the clear and explicit understanding that it was not an entitlement process
until and unless we could work out how to do it... if the initial try didn't
work, sorry but we would not continue.
> Do we unwind all the way
> back to the first settlers?
Potentially
> How do we deal with the wealth which has
> been generated from those lands?
Some sort of fair assignment of royalties and rents? The rightful owner gets
something for the land the factory sat on, but NOT all of the profits the
factory ever generated, or something for the ore, but NOT all of the profits
the steel company ever generated.
> I'm curious as to how and where we draw the line. Perhaps it is prudent
> to explore how we might unwind the situation in the U.S. before we make
> claims as to what should happen in the Middle East.
Exactly.
Before anyone derides this as an impractical suggestion, it is. It's
massively difficult. But the alternative is that a blank guilt check has
been granted, forever, to those who use those sorts of things. I'd rather
try to settle it once and for all even if it's hard.
++Lar
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| (...) Do you think this would really be practical? Do we unwind all the way back to the first settlers? How do we deal with the wealth which has been generated from those lands? I'm curious as to how and where we draw the line. Perhaps it is prudent (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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