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Old 11-20-2003, 11:45 AM   #18
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Originally posted by hot_pastrami

By that logic, all us North Americans ought to get our asses out and give the land back to the Natives. I'm not arguing that it's wrong, just citing a parallel which may help see the other side of the equation.

Which comes first.. respecting property ownership, or survival?
Well you see the difference here is that the Americans did something very Machiavellian. They killed off all the indians - at least all the indians that could mount some sort of resistance.

There are still plenty of Palestinians alive and the land was split about 56.47% to the Jewish state and 43.53% to the Arab state. Of course that was the orignial state, I'm not sure what it's like now, but probably more along the lines of 60/40 due to Israel constantly grabing more and more land.
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