-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03130305b21bb44e5bb2@[209.66.100.149]>, on 09/08/98 at 09:40 PM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
And it wouldn't have happened had the victorious superpowers decided the sand niggers in Palestine could be kicked off their land. (I have no beef with those Jews who peacefully bought land in Palestine prior to this mass resettlement.)
Sorry Tim, you need to re-check your history. No one was kicked off their land until *after* war broke out in '45. All land occupied by the Jews before that was *purchased* from the Arabs living there. There was also a large percentage of land that was either desert or swaps that was reclaimed by the Jews and turned into productive farm land. Tel Aviv was nothing but sand and scrub brush before the Jews started building there (there was the Ancient city of Jaffo which Tel Aviv has now encompassed but it took decades of expansion before Tel Aviv reached that far south). After the various battles of this 50 year war large percentages of the Palestinian population left Israelie held territory, but this had more to do with the Arab leaders calling for them to do so (and their not wanting to live under Israelie rule) than it did with the Jews pushing them out. Similar migrations were seen when India and Pakistan were created. Large portions of Moslem population that were living in India moved to Pakistan despite Ghandi's calls for them to stay. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: One man's Windows are another man's walls. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNfbNiY9Co1n+aLhhAQGZ2AQAgWGUujzGbVvq6uhqnE4fEabsvZCJiYqP J5MCk3+Z/FJ/ufV37pOlDlBjApPBl87kVmrDdbzlYSRizSsF5Y2dttJ+X5gskeWp sbXoPdAH7IWTm0AVCzhYJQCS0nO+Af1UT6mLSYl4v4RAmVC3wVIqvmz8lf0eRpLd JjYMsLMyHRA= =G2i7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----