Mike Lask’s Selected Rants And Other Ravings
Friday, December 31, 2004
Still one of my all time favorite essays...
Hobbes and the Middle East
By Robert Locke
FrontPageMagazine.com January 23, 2002
DISCUSSIONS of the Middle East situation inevitably seem to at least allude to the idea that because Israel is founded upon conquest, its territorial integrity and legitimacy as a nation are somehow impugnable. So let's get three things perfectly clear:
By Robert Locke
FrontPageMagazine.com January 23, 2002
DISCUSSIONS of the Middle East situation inevitably seem to at least allude to the idea that because Israel is founded upon conquest, its territorial integrity and legitimacy as a nation are somehow impugnable. So let's get three things perfectly clear:
- Israel was founded upon conquest, a bald fact that no verbal manipulation of history can disguise. Let's just admit it.
- So was the United States.
- So were most nations.
It is time, that is, to squarely confront the ancient and time-honored political doctrine of the right of conquest. ...
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"they reneged on their promise of a Jewish state"
Actually the British promised a "National home for the Jews", not an independent state, and in the various proposals for the creation of a national homeland in Palestine tried to keep that promise. None of the proposals were acceptable, and so effectively they were unable to deliver.
Peter
Actually the British promised a "National home for the Jews", not an independent state, and in the various proposals for the creation of a national homeland in Palestine tried to keep that promise. None of the proposals were acceptable, and so effectively they were unable to deliver.
Peter
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: January 19, 2005 at 4:26 AM
My first comment!!! Many thanks. And of course, you are right!
ML
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