[lit-ideas] Re: U.N. Special Committee on Palestine
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:54:42 +0100
>Affording the land by the UN is small consolation. It's still taken,
>and it's still gone, and the Palestinians are still starving at this very
> moment. It's strange how people who despise the UN the rest of
>the time (I'm not saying you do
I don't, I support the UN against its detractors (not always, obviously; it
depends
on the issue) and have -- I thought -- on this list. As for "at this moment",
my
point concerns the land granted in 1947.
>We still live in a world where might makes right
I know. I oppose that. But once land has been taken/given it may be that
compensation is a better form of restitution than (re-)seizure.
>and the U.S. is supplying them with plenty of rights.
I think you mean "arms"
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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From: Andy Amago
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: U.N. Special Committee on Palestine
Affording the land by the UN is small consolation. It's still taken, and
it's still gone, and the Palestinians are still starving at this very moment.
It's strange how people who despise the UN the rest of the time (I'm not saying
you do but an awful lot of people do) will turn to the UN as their authority in
this. We still live in a world where might makes right. If you can steal it
(or have someone else steal it and give it to you), and your gun is big enough,
then you're in the right. Or, conversely, if your gun is big enough, as in
WWII, and you can get it back, then you're in the right. So we'll just have to
wait and see how Israel's right plays out. They're working on it even at this
very moment, and the U.S. is supplying them with plenty of rights.
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