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To: TopQuark
Well that's the thing. The English essentially tried their damndest to exterminate the Welsh with fire and sword in the XIIIth century.

But since then, they've learned to be adults and deal with one another civilly.

The Israelis are guilty of buying land at market prices and then defending their property when it was attacked.

The Welsh have a much stronger case, historically, than any Arab squatting in a Jordanian-built reservation.

Your point is resoundingly correct: if the authors of pieces like this had any intellectual rigor, they'd be asserting that out-of-work American Anglo-Saxons from upstate Connecticut should go into Foxwoods Casino strapped with dynamite and blow themselves up. Why? Because Connecticut historically belonged to the Indian tribe that owns the casino, it was conquered and settled by the English, and now the Indians are back and are flush with casino wealth and are purchasing land in the area and annoying the Anglo-Saxon descendants of the conquerors.

But we'll never hear this from them. There is only one group on earth that has to adhere to the most rigorous peacetime, drawing-room morality in the middle of a genocidal war.

8 posted on 12/16/2002 2:11:51 PM PST by wideawake
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