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Thread #75325 Message #1323443
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
11-Nov-04 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Arafat is dead--11 November 2004
Subject: RE: Arafat is dead--11 November 2004
"For all of that, the Palestinians have a place to live, the area they fled to" - so that's alright, then.
All very reminiscent of what happened to another people who were living on land coveted by arrivals with more wealth and more firepower, and who were "relocated" to "reservations". And then the reservations got whittled down any time the settlers wanted a bit more land, or what was under the land.
"Settlers" is a great word isn't it for displacing people from their homes? An even better euphemism than "ethnic cleansing".