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Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 28 May 2002 14:17:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > All parties involved would be better off ditching their silly superstitious
> > attachment to a home- or holy-land and learning to live where they are without
> > neighborly aggression. I don't think that stone throwing was getting them
> > anywhere.
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> So I take it that if the ATF dropped by your place this afternoon and relocated
> your family to, I don't know, a desert in New Mexico, you'd just buck up and
> make the best of it? If not, then please explain the difference for me.
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> Dave!
One difference is that you haven't been warring with the same faction for
the last 2000+ years.
If, out of the blue, someone were to come knocking at your door and relocate
your family, an injustice has just occured against you.
If, on the other hand, you've been fighting over and ove and over again, for
multi-generational injustices on both sides, and there is really nothing
left to do that would *end* *the* *killing!!!!* besides relocating (or
dropping a nuclear weapon in the center of town, thus eliminating *both*
parties, and therefore the conflict altogether) then for the love of all
things rational, take the relocation.
Dave
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Well I like(1) the solution offered in _The Fresco_ (by Sheri S. Tepper, an SF author who really has grown on me lately, she's worth some careful reading) In that novel the aliens, after observing the situation, ejected everyone from old (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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| (...) This is the part that messes me up, though; aren't there quite a few people now living in that region who were personally subject to relocation? If so, then they would seem to have a legitimate grievance. (...) Well, sure--I agree that (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So I take it that if the ATF dropped by your place this afternoon and relocated your family to, I don't know, a desert in New Mexico, you'd just buck up and make the best of it? If not, then please explain the difference for me. Dave! (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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