brucie - Everyone wants a place to live.

In my family, every generation seems to have found a new (different) place to live. I'm not sure if I have a homeland and I don't care. That hasn't stopped me from living my life. Pograms do not work but Jews are not the first (or the last) to live in countries with laws that do not protect them. There have been internment camps, apartheid, concentration camps, slavery, reservations and so on. What about those people? Should they not be given land that was historically theirs? The only reason Israel was given this special distinction was because the U.S. and Britain needed a strategic location to protect their oil interests.

Displacing one group to satisy the needs of another is not the answer. Two wrongs do not make a right. Just because you feel you have been "dumped on" does not give you the right to dump on others. Conflict is always reduced to us and them and whoever has the biggest guns wins. Thats the problem.

Do you ever think there may come a time when people will realize that nations are politically structured to separate people? Someday we may decide to stop fighting and realize that we are all born on this planet and therefore have a right to live here? Borders serve the power elite and their need to control the movement of goods and people. The conflict in the middle east isn't a religious conflict. Its economic.

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