As I believe it was Douglas Adams who once postulated "The last thing you need is a sense of perspective."
I'm not in favour of killing anyone, but really, the area now occupied by the modern state of Israel has a long history between the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 and the start of the British Protectorate, and the fact that it was under an imposed external governance at the time really does not make it all go away. After all, I believe the citizens of what is now the United States were in that position once, but were considerably opposed to the idea that their Lords and Masters (and King George III) had the right to dictate their fate.
Having said all that, the modern state of Israel isn't going to go away any time soon, and calls for its removal from the Earth really are not any kind of appropriate response.
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Date: 2008-07-03 08:58 am (UTC)I'm not in favour of killing anyone, but really, the area now occupied by the modern state of Israel has a long history between the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 and the start of the British Protectorate, and the fact that it was under an imposed external governance at the time really does not make it all go away. After all, I believe the citizens of what is now the United States were in that position once, but were considerably opposed to the idea that their Lords and Masters (and King George III) had the right to dictate their fate.
Having said all that, the modern state of Israel isn't going to go away any time soon, and calls for its removal from the Earth really are not any kind of appropriate response.