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Thread #117493   Message #2539223
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Jan-09 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
Depends what you mean by "calling for the destruction of the nation one is a citizen of". It's quite common for people quite legitimately to wish for that to happen, and frequently they are successful.

The Scottish National Party in Scotland, Plaid Cymru in Wales, and the SDLP and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland all call for a constitutional settlement in which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland would cease to exist. It's not long since the countries Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the German Democratic Republic and the USSR were wiped off the map.
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Justice is not determined by tit-for-tat. Ethnic cleansing is always criminal. Insofar as Jews were driven into exile in Israel by other countries, that was an injustice, and a peaceful settlement in the Middle East should seek to remedy it - but that does not mean that the exclusion of the exiled inhabitants of the country that is now Israel was or is legitimate.