From a Comment on an article The New Republic:
When communism failed, the intellectual infrastructure for that vast
enterprise did not uniformly leave the debate. Indeed the dialectic has
been transformed from workers and capitalists to colonies and
colonizers. If you thought for one second about the way things work in
the real world you would realize that your basic assumptions are false.
Lets start with the premise that the land is by definition Palestinian.
It is not. You conjure up a mythical period where palestinians worked
with their olive trees in comfort and independence but that time never
existed in History. The last recognized sovereign in the West Bank and
Gaza was Great Britain and before them the Ottomans who ruled as an
empire for over 400 years in the area. Indeed there are the names of
many of the past peoples of this land who if they existed as a cohesive
unit could make the same claim as the Palestinians to being the
indigenous peoples. How about the Samaritans? It is for this reason
that the Palestinians claim to be Jebusites or Canaanites, because only
in this way can they claim to be before the Hebrews who most certainly
controlled the land at one point in the past. The falsehood here is
that the line of the Canaanites is dead because the culture is dead.
What exists among the Palestinians is Syrian Arab culture and Arab
culture was an import to the region by force, much later than the
expulsion of the Jews from the land. In other words, your history of
indigenousness is a tissue of lies, easily exposed by a grammar school
student. The Hebrews predated the Palestinians as a people, their
language predates Arabic and their religion predates Mohammed (even he
admits it). If indigenousness really mattered Israel has the better
claim to it.
( DavidSher )
The Contentious Centrist
"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)
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