[lit-ideas] Re: U.N. Special Committee on Palestine
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:08:35 -0700
Andyrene wrote in response to Stan:
>Can it be that maybe you don't think someone has the right to throw >someone
>out of their house and move in and leave the homeowner >homeless?
ck: You don't read very widely, apparently. This kind of thing happens quite
often. Exorbitant taxes have forced Native Hawaiians off their beachfront
property--owned by their ohanas for centuries--on Oahu, and currently on Maui.
That's one way of displacing a people. Loads of examples. Just in North
America, the US appropriate chunks of Mexico, along with Native American lands,
after winning battles. (And losing some, too.) In Europe, countries invaded
each other for two millenia. Took the land, threw the former inhabitants off,
or enslaved them. Et cetera. Everywhere on earth, it's been the same story:
fight, conquer, settle the land for yourself, and the losers are lucky if
they're not killed off.
Why, then, is it so unbearable that Israel keep the land it was awarded (a la
European tradition) and fought for? It makes no sense that there's an exception
for Israel. It conquered the land. That should be enough. But Israelis are
Jews, and the world has separate rules for Jews. It's called anti-Semitism.
Carol
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