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OK now it really has not happened. But let's say it does. Let's say that the Mexicans decide that they want their "occupied territory" back. Let's say the demand that we give them back Texas and California. Then they send terrorist and suicide bombers into the USA and start blowing things up and killing people. We fight them for years but we finally decide that the bloodshed is not worth it and we give them back Texas and California and say "OK we have removed all US citizens from those states and we are giving them back in hopes of a lasting peace.
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Do you see the point here with Israel and Hamas??
Not such a bad analogy. Harry Reid make a like analogy but with Canadians. And in an interview with David Gregory...
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SEN. REID: I spoke to Prime Minister Olmert a couple of days ago. He indicated that they would do the ground activities. Let's understand the background. For eight years they've been firing rockets into Israel. They've become more intense the last few months. Israelis have been killed, maimed and injured. Sometimes more than 200 a day coming into Israel. If this were going on in the United States from Vancouver, Canada, into Seattle, would we react? Course we do. We would have to. I think what the Israelis are doing is very important. I think this terrorist organization, Hamas, has got to be put away. They've got to come to their senses. The Fatah group, which is--makes up part of Palestinian group, has a peace arrangement with Israel. Hamas should do the same.
MR. GREGORY: And they're in power in the West Bank.
SEN. REID: That's right. And, and, and Israel, for--since 1967, controlled Gaza. They gave it to the Palestinians as a gesture of peace. And all they got are a bunch of rockets in return.
MR. GREGORY: So you think that Israel ought to move forward and try to remove Hamas from power?
SEN. REID: They have to. I, I'm not concerned about removing Hamas from power, I'm concerned about stopping the rocket fire and the mortar fire into Israel. That is the key, and that's what Israel's up to according to the prime minister.
I just never could understand WHY anyone thought you could put a group of people to make a "state" on TOP of a group already living there. It's not like it's a BIG country, for goodness sakes.
For the same reason that their will forever be a augment of who's country it really is.It came about because of the persecution of Jews in Europe. Its really the same as why India was divided into Pakistan and India.
I think when it started out in the 19th century the goal was only to have more of a Jewish presence in Palestine. Then with Balfour and the Holocaust, etc., the goal was enlarged, and then national myths were developed that the land was empty before they moved there.
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Originally Posted by cousinsal
I just never could understand WHY anyone thought you could put a group of people to make a "state" on TOP of a group already living there. It's not like it's a BIG country, for goodness sakes.
Obviously, it hasn't worked.
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