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Spider Jerusalem

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6. You know...

Reply to YoungDemCA (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 01:22 PM

Jul 2014

the Holocaust was, possibly, the greatest crime in human history. But I don't really know that it's sufficient justification for the dispossession and displacement of the Arab population of what was Mandatory Palestine. Any more than the religious persecution of Puritans and Quakers and Catholics and Huguenots and so on is sufficient justification for the dispossession and displacement of Native Americans.

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I Am A Zionist, But This I Cannot Accept--Roger Cohen (NYT OP ED) [View all] KoKo Jul 2014 OP

But Roger, that's what happens when you base a religion on a particular patch of land... phantom power Jul 2014 #1

I agree the Jews needed a homeland to call their own. I disagree with the location of that homeland. EEO Jul 2014 #2

I question the whole premise. Why does any religion *need* a "homeland?" phantom power Jul 2014 #3

Jews comprise more than a religion. YoungDemCA Jul 2014 #5

You know... Spider Jerusalem Jul 2014 #6

So we make another group of people victims... EEO Jul 2014 #7

The oppressed become the oppressors. This is human nature. We should not be backing this Pisces Jul 2014 #4