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Thread #93906   Message #1814514
Posted By: Little Hawk
20-Aug-06 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Still Waiting for Jews To Riot
Subject: RE: BS: Still Waiting for Jews To Riot
People always subjectively interpret history to suit their emotional agenda, don't they?

Whose land was that land to give away? What do you think? Does anyone give away their land willingly? No. People will sometimes share land willingly...by allowing immigration. Even then, there is usually a backlash of some kind by many of the local people if too many new immigrants come in at one time, and we've all seen that from time to time.

I witnessed a wave of considerable prejudice against Indo-Pakistani immigrants in Canada in the 70's and 80's, for example...simply because there were a lot of them at that time.

There was tremendous prejudice against the Irish when they were emigrating in great numbers to North America in the mid-1800's, and for the same reason...there were a lot of them, and people felt threatened in some way.

Jewish immigration into Palestine after WWII was a bit unusual, wouldn't you say? It was more militant than such immigration usually is. It involved organized acts of terrorism and war. Is it surprising that that has led to continued bitterness and warfare?

I don't see any simple solution. If anyone else does, let's hear it.

If your solution is to totally intimdate one side into surrender by applying massive military force, I would suggest to you that that has already been tried over and over again by all the involved parties...and it has not succeeded. It's not going to succeed.