@Foofie,
Foofie wrote:
InfraBlue wrote:
Religious mythologies are poor justifications for the arrogation of land and the discrimination and oppression of the peoples therein.
The land belongs to the peoples that inhabit the land.
Reread your last sentence above, and you'll see that the Israelis are doing just that, since they inhabit land after winning a war in 1967. That's really how the world evolved - land changed inhabitants after wars; declared wars, undeclared wars, or wars of attrition. And, the Israelis are not on the land based on religion; they are on the land based on tribal identity, aka, Hebrews. Notice that Jewish cemeteries today still are titled "Hebrew Cemetery." No one is claiming that in American history Europeans took over Native American land because Native Americans had a different religion. It was all based on tribal identity. The Europeans were just the modern version of the pagan tribes that plotzed down in different parts of Europe in the early middle ages - Goths, Visigoths, Franks, etc.
The land belongs to the Palestinians as well. The Zionists are obligated to give them their due.
This Hebrew "tribal identity" of the Zionists is based on religious mythology.
You're right, no one is claiming that in American history Europeans took over Native American land because Native Americans had a different religion. It was, however, based in part on a religious conviction that it was the US' manifest destiny to possess the entire continent that
Providence had given it. This nineteenth century conviction was preceded by the seventeenth century ideas of the Puritan settlers from England about the religious specialness of America and their Providential mission therein, what with their invocation of "the God of Israel," and that they must be as a "City upon a Hill."
