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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: The definition of terrorism is NOT flexible!
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 08:41:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 08:41:22 1985
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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> From the Palestinian point of view, they had their land forcibly taken
> from them. Yes, the Jews also have claims to that land. However,
> if someone came to yoour house and handed you an eviction notice,
> claiming that the house had been in his family a couple of thousand
> years ago, that he had been unfairly evicted by a third party,
> that he had now come back to reclaim his property, and that intended to
> keep you out, by force if necessary, would you not defend yourself,
> by force if necessary? 
> Marcel-Franck Simon		ihnp4!{mhuxr, hl3b5b}!mfs

That was NOT what happened in pre-Israel Palestine, however.
The Jews who settled the area PURCHASED the land from the landowners
at the time (Turks and Arabs). The Jews were quite willing to
go along with the UN partition plan, which called for two
states within the 23% of Palestine which had not been given to
the Hashemites. And the Arabs who remained in Israel were not
thrown out, but became Israeli citizens. Those who left did so
at the instigation of the Arab leaders who were preparing to
"push the Jews into the sea".

If the Arab countries had put ANYWHERE NEAR the effort into
resettling "Palestinian refugees" as Israel has put into
resettling Jews from other countries - including hundreds of
thousands from Arab lands, who left everything behind - there
would be no "Palestinian problem".

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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