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jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes:

>In article <1992Apr10.082142.7808@muddcs.claremont.edu> gmeltzne@jarthur.claremont.edu (manu) writes:
>>   ...
>>   Don't go blaming the Jews for American ignorance.

>Absolutely.  We have only ourselves to blame.  If we wanted better
>newspapers, we would get them.  Even a Jewish-dominated newspaper (if
>subject, though.)

>Israel did _not_ acquire its land in the same way that that America
>acquired its land.  About 5% of the Israeli partition of the
>Palestinian Mandate had been legally bought by Zionists.  The other
>95% was ceded to the nascent Israel by the UN and the UK, partly
>because it had always been promised to the Zionists, partly because
>the UN wanted to find its own solution to the Jewish Question, and
>partly because the Zionist terrorists were killing and murdering
>Arabs, Brits, and a UN mediator.  The rest of Israel (about half) has
>been acquired by conquest (in wars mostly started by the Arabs).  This
>is not at all similar to the US, where the initial revolution was
>fought as a war, not as a terrorist campaign, and where most of the
>land acquired since 1798 was purchased peacefully (Louisiana Purchase,
>Alaska, Gadsden Purchase) or joined voluntarily (Texas albeit after a
>Texan rebellion against Mexico, Hawaii).

Whoa!  You can't be serious with this exculpation of the US territorial
acquisitions.  You haven't mentioned the indigenous people -- you
remember -- the Indians?  There isn't a single inch of American
territory that wasn't stolen -- by force or deceit -- from the previous
inhabitants.  Not to mention your distortions of the Revolutionary War,
which certainly had "terroristic" elements.  You also managed to miss
mention our "peaceful" acquisition of California, New Mexico, Arizon and
Florida.  You might also take a look at US imperialism -- take a good
look at the article in the most recent Atlantic written by Mark Twain
around the turn of the century in reference to US behavior in the
Philippines.  READ SOME HISTORY!  US behavior is no better -- in some
cases maybe worse -- than the Israeli, and not just two hundred years
ago: read something about the US gov. and the American Indian Movement
or the Black Panthers.  Read about the civil rights movement.

Sheesh.

--Jeff Frane

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