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----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Callaghan <grantc4@hotmail.com
> The "eye for an eye" meme goes back some 4,000 years. I don't know how
you
> figure it only started in 1948. The situation they are applying it to may
> have started then, but they didn't have to choose that meme for answering
> the challenge. And how do you figure America and Europe made them choose
> that meme to solve their problems with instead of choosing to negotiate
with
> each other in good faith? You haven't told me how that came about yet.
Hi Grant,
Sorry for the delay, I was quite busy !
Here is my answer.
I was only refering to the situation they are now applying it to, like Alan
wrote, no more no less.
If, in a way the Brits could have hold the immigration ( of most East-
European Jews) to a minimum, if thus the state of Israel wasn 't be
founded at all, there would be no problem. But that is too simplistic.
And if the Arabs would have execpted the VN resolution which pro-
vided a split of the territory in a Jew- Palestinian half, there would be
no problem either.
I understand perfectly that the Arabs were not so keen on the Jews,
after all, after WO II they were smuggled in by the thousands, but
before WO II the immigration was legal_ Jews bought vast pieces of
ground, ( kibbutzim) and settled down.
So, in a sense if the Brits didn 't moved out in 1948 there was no bias
for the first Israelistic/ Arab war; if the Frensh and the Brits didn 't
occupied the Suezcanal in 1956 there was no second conflict.
In a way, Europe and later America made Israel and the Arabs, to
choose the meme of violence_ in a way, by the histoical events both
sides were ' forced ' to take the violence- memes on board.
The origin of the ' ME- violence- meme ' lies within not only Israel
itself but IMO begins at the end of the 19 th. century with the rising
of zionism in Europe.
The immigration- flow which resulted of this expanded into, later, in
the ME- conflict.
But, and I agree, the settlement- politc and the attempts to annex the
Golan, the Sinai and some parts of Jordan are points of discussion.
And in a broader context, if Europe and America stayed out all the
together there was no problem.
But both do have emotional attachments, Europe as with what happened
with the Jews during WO II and America as with many of its habitants
have Jewish roots. And in such a way, stuck as we are, we drives the
sides in the ME up to such a point that it will burst,... and it did !
Regards,
Kenneth
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