Horrors of History Neverending
Written as a communication between this blogger and a Palestinian online friend in response to this video:
Yes, and it's outrageous
that Great Britain (UK) has always had this sense of superiority and colonized
all over the world. Who knows why they were entitled to take over India, for
example. Dates elude me but they just stepped in and ruled the Indian
population.
It is a completely unjust situation that they felt entitled to give away land that not only wasn't theirs to give; but belonged to a population that had been there for centuries (I think it was centuries). I agree it was as wrong as any situation could be and there is no way to justify it by saying, "We stepped in" and evading the basic issue that the country was not UK's and the United Nations to give away."
In America, we (generally speaking), did the same to the Native Americans. England, France and Spain sent in settlers who drove the native people off their land, onto reservations that had no good soil to plant food and no water to keep it growing even if planting had been possible. Those three countries had no entitlement to America, and gave the land away to homesteaders, who then hated the Indians because they killed the settlers who took over their land, in retaliation.
Man's inhumanity to man will never end. There's no justification for what happened in Palestine. It is Great Britain that is to blame for the hatred between the Jews and Palestinians.
Egypt enslaved the Jews. People in America and other countries enslaved the blacks. The Christians slaughtered countless innocents during the Crusades. And the Jews, with sanction from UK stole the Palestinian homes and property.
It is all horrible. I am not personally harmed by what happened in Palestine, as you are, but I feel as sad and emotional about it as I do about the Holocaust. The slaughter in Palestine in 1948 was as horrible and what America did to the Native Americans equally horrible.
There is too much ugliness in the world. I don't think any peace accord will be lasting in Palestine. The only thing that would have the slightest effect and the only chance to facilitate a peace is if the settlements were stopped permanently. And that's going to happen when hell freezes over.
It is a completely unjust situation that they felt entitled to give away land that not only wasn't theirs to give; but belonged to a population that had been there for centuries (I think it was centuries). I agree it was as wrong as any situation could be and there is no way to justify it by saying, "We stepped in" and evading the basic issue that the country was not UK's and the United Nations to give away."
In America, we (generally speaking), did the same to the Native Americans. England, France and Spain sent in settlers who drove the native people off their land, onto reservations that had no good soil to plant food and no water to keep it growing even if planting had been possible. Those three countries had no entitlement to America, and gave the land away to homesteaders, who then hated the Indians because they killed the settlers who took over their land, in retaliation.
Man's inhumanity to man will never end. There's no justification for what happened in Palestine. It is Great Britain that is to blame for the hatred between the Jews and Palestinians.
Egypt enslaved the Jews. People in America and other countries enslaved the blacks. The Christians slaughtered countless innocents during the Crusades. And the Jews, with sanction from UK stole the Palestinian homes and property.
It is all horrible. I am not personally harmed by what happened in Palestine, as you are, but I feel as sad and emotional about it as I do about the Holocaust. The slaughter in Palestine in 1948 was as horrible and what America did to the Native Americans equally horrible.
There is too much ugliness in the world. I don't think any peace accord will be lasting in Palestine. The only thing that would have the slightest effect and the only chance to facilitate a peace is if the settlements were stopped permanently. And that's going to happen when hell freezes over.
