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Thread #123266   Message #2712513
Posted By: robomatic
30-Aug-09 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
Subject: RE: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
McGrath:

The parallel is that Palestinians who were willing to accept living in Israel stayed and live in Israel. They can integrate in Israel in so much as Colonists were willing to integrate into the nascent United States.

The Palestinians who were not are not. Since they are displaced they should stay that way and live in a place like Jordan, which is a valid Palestinian spillway, much as Canada proved to be for Loyalists.

And just as there are Palestinians who want to have a non-Israel in the land that 'was' Palestine, there are issues about non-English speaking Canadians who want to break apart Canada and have their own nation their own way.

These things happen with pretty much any new nation. and the issues can make or break the new nation.