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Entry: The Morning Scene Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_morning_scene#24131 Post contents: RonL- Certainly there are some parallels between the US and Israel in attaining land unlawfully. But so what? That's a reducto ad absurdum argument. What did Ted Bundy do that American soldiers didn't do in WW2? What did Bill Clinton do with an intern that JFK didn't do 500 times with the White House secretarial pool? It's such a stupid argument I'm kind of amazed that anyone would make it. But just to keep things very simple, a much better (but still too mild) analogy for the situation in Gaza and the West Bank is South Africa. Not the US. Start your moral arguments there. It's more intellectually honest :) It's fairly clear to everyone that thinks about it that a Jewish state should exist in some form, but imposing it on the local population of an area that had entirely reasonable claim to the land in question and nothing to do with the atrocities of Hitler is quite insane, or at least quite unfair. The shock of that unfairness has not exactly faded in collective consciousness of said local population. What is strangest about it, is that this group of people--Palestinian Arabs--finds themselves in this rather awful fix because of some lines in a superstitious old book that anoints their oppressors as a "chosen" race -- a book whose content is largely idiocy and nonsense (some wonderful stories, bits of poetry and wisdom aside). Any rational mind would be aghast. Sent at: 2008 09 08