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Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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Tue, 28 May 2002 14:51:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > If the ATF dropped by your place this afternoon and relocated
> > your family to a desert in New Mexico, you'd just buck up and
> > make the best of it?
> One difference is that you haven't been warring with the same faction for
> the last 2000+ years.
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> If, out of the blue, someone were to come knocking at your door and relocate
> your family, an injustice has just occured against you.
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.
> 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.
Well, sure--I agree that relocation is preferable to ongoing mass murder,
even if that relocation is inconvenient or undesirable to me.
Dave!
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| (...) only relocation by their own choice - AFAIK, Israel never forced anyone to leave their houses in '48 (or '67), the people who left did so from their own free will. Fearing Israel will do to them what the Arab countries would have done to the (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: The skinny on Jenin, the European Press
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| (...) If a family has lived on the same plot of land for generations, why should they be removed (relocated) without compensation to provide a home for an economic migrant from the former USSR who has chosen relocation to improve his own personal (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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