Yes. Think of what Pat Buchanan would do if Virginia were still a British colony, and the British were organizing mass immigration of clans of Zulus.
>"Arafat's organization" did not organize the Munich raid: Al Fatah was a big
>umbrella group, rather like the AFL-CIO, with a lot of restive and
>uncontrollable factions, one of whom thought that that sort of dramatic
>"statement" would somehow help the cause of Palestinian freedom.
I have been told that that's highly, highly unlikely: Black September were Arafat's people...
>Palestineans
>declined to recognize Israel for a long time, initially, because they thought
>that Israel was an illegitimate imperialit settler state that stole their
>land, and later, because recognition was a political bargaining chip.
Say--as the father of one of my high school friends told me in 1974--that non-recognition was the Palestinian's *only* political bargaining chip.
>Any
>other questions? --jks
But my point is that these questions are not ones that anyone should hesitate to answer: it's not insulting to be asked them...
Brad DeLong