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Thread #121349   Message #2649600
Posted By: mg
05-Jun-09 - 09:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's astonishing speech in Cairo
Subject: RE: BS: Obama's astonishing speech in Cairo
You can't go back very far with right of return and 2000 years is beyond comprehension..not that it would not be desired but that it could not reasonably be accomodated without abusing the present population. It will always be a problem after wars and various diaspora...the Irish are still worried that people will come back with the desire to reclaim what their families left in the famine, or I was told so in Ireland recently. I could go right to where my ancestors were but I wouldn't kick the people out who live there...and that is 160 or so years...not 2000.

It does matter where one lives..it can't always be accomodated. The Palestinians want their own land..not country..their own little farms and houses and orchards back. It does not mean they will get this..they probably won't..but some should be set aside in pepertuity for at least a Williamsburg-type situation, so that children can see what their grandparents were talking about, and can have picnics etc. on the grounds as they were kept long ago.

Down the road from me is a Palestinian who had an orange orchard stolen from him. He is hopefully forgetting this now as he is developing Alzheimers. mg