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Old 01-01-2009, 11:26 AM   #110
Nage Waza
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Originally Posted by jammies View Post
There are Irish that hate the English for Cromwell's reign back in the 1600's. There are Scots who still are stung by the Act of Union in 1707 (my uncle, a Scottish separatist, being one of them). There are Australian/American/Canadian native peoples still bitter about losing their land back in the 1800's. There are Armenians who hate Turks for the WWI massacres of their people. There are Pakistanis who hate the Indians because of the Kashmir being granted to the latter in 1947.

YOU don't care what happened 60 years ago - but that means less than jack, if possible. Not every culture lives in the eternal present like the majority of we North Americans strive to do.
I agree, yet they need to move on. Israel plants trees while Hamas builds bombs. Google earth the region and watch how green some parts of the region are...you will see where the Jews live. And this is for the whole region, not just Israel/Palestine.
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