Waiting for the fallout

[andrewducker]

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[spaj.livejournal.com]

If I occupy your house, does it become just because other people have bigger houses?

Adam

[andrewducker]

Dude, stop occupying Ireland and hand it back to the natives!

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I like that one :)

Me I plan to occupy the Seychelles. it has better beaches than Ireland..

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Tasmania should be returned to the natives!

[mcgroarty.livejournal.com]

You know, this whole argument is over when it gets to its logical extreme and we realize that all the other countries don't want the Americans back.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Or the uglier extreme of wanting their Jews back.

well

[spaj.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the logic for kicking the palestinians out in the first place?

If every progeny of a tribe of natives had a claim to their ancestral grounds... I can't explain how difficult or stupid it would be to try and resolve it.

The fact of the matter is that Israel is there now. If you're going to hand it back to the Palestinians because they were there first, then it's also going to have to go back to every other tribesman who ever pissed in a bush on their borders.

And you're going to have to do the same for everyone else too.

The Ireland comment is diversionary? since The scale of occupation has nothing to do with it's correctness, and this was the point of your comment (and my retort).

But Ireland is ruled now by the same people it was ruled by in 800AD. The vikings. So let's get on with our lives, eh?

Adam

Re: well

[andrewducker]

There is no useful logic for these situations. The Palestinians are right to feel they've been treated badly when their land was taken. The Israelis are right to feel it's their land because it was given to them and a lot of them were born there.

There's no simple solution to it, other than to try to get them to share.

Which 10% of each side won't, because they're fanatical. And the fanatics kill people on both sides, drawing in the less fanatical ones.

[broin.livejournal.com]

There's an English guy in work, and I yelled at an Irish chap to watch his cup when the guy's around, as the English will conquer ANYTHING.

Are we going to go there?

[jaywalking.livejournal.com]

Aren't we all occupying some land that used to "belong" to someone else?