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Thread #99577   Message #1989401
Posted By: Wolfgang
07-Mar-07 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: A Palestinian State?
Subject: RE: BS: A Palestinian State?
Nickhere,

you start with the idea of a Palestinian state (an idea I agree with) but you give later the impression that you'd wish there would be no Israel at all (an idea I don't agree with). What do you actually want?

And what do you want for Gaza? Coming back to Egypt?

Since you brought up Germany, let me use this example in another way. Germany has lost about 1/3 of its 1937 territory and still accomodated all Germans who were evicted from these these regions after WWII (and did not let them live in camps as a pressure group for return). Do they too have a right to return?

This part of your argumentation reminds me that of German Neonazis who are of course for a right to return for all Palestinians (guess why; and by implication for Germans).

Who has the right to return in your eyes? The evicted/fleeing or also their offspring. For how many generations is there a right to return?

In case you think the Germans have no right to return for historical reasons (being guilty), think of the Poles and the Finns who surely have not been guilty in any way before their eviction. Do they have a right to return to what now is Belarus and Russia?

I am against this right to return after such a long time for it would needlessly create new injustice at least as great as the old injustice. If you'd really apply the right to return to Europe it would create a chaos same as it would in Israel/Palestine.

Wolfgang