I certainly agree with giving chunks of Europe back to people...and Ukraine and Russia...huge huge areas of land..now Ukraine..how much i I don't know has the radiation problem...but there are huge areas with huge amounts of land..we have to be careful to say land without a people because undoubtedly there are people everywhere..and it is not ours to give..but along with Palestinians having a congregating place, with old preserved villages and farms etc. and living somewhere else and returning for pilgramages, vacations, etc..I think Jewish people have to do the same....live and work elsewhere for the most part and visit the holy grounds and some relatives in Israel. That of course means all holy grounds and most remaining farm land has to be preserved by international occupation if necessary. And other satellite colonies need to be formed. The Irish for example....Australia, Canada....the Welsh in Argentina, the Swiss in Wisconsin perhaps and Washington. Scandinavians all over the place...

We have to really focus on the love of a praticular piece of land, which realistically most are not going to get back..but even if some did in common..like a village..many villages are I think almost ghost towns but I oculd be wrong...and focus less perhaps, based on what I have heard Palestinian leaders say..that they will live in a non-Palestinian state but on their own precious land. I am not saying they can or ever will have that land back, but we must try to understand how important it was and is to them.

I will tell you from my own family's experience...a great longing for Ireland, regardless how desolate and poor it must have been...it doesn't go away in many generations. Even in thousands of years as for the Jewish people. I am sympathetic for the idea of a homeland, especially after such horrible losses..but you still do not get to go and take someone else's house and farm and water. And say a holy book told you it was OK. mg