Conference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>Max, sincere question: what other states are made up of a population
>>brought from somewhere else after 1900 (or 1945 for that matter) to an
>>area already populated by other peoples...
>
>And what makes 1900, or 1945, the relevant line of demarcation? Could it be
>that it provides a convenient point of demarcating Israel from the host of
>other settler states that surround the globe, from Australia and New
>Zealand to Canada and the US, from Cuba and Jamaica to Chile and Argentina?
>A cover for what is a singling out of the one nation state which is Jewish?
>
>Leo Casey

The tragedy of Palestinians is that they came under the reign of a 
newly created settler-colonialist state just at the moment when the 
colonized all over the world were on the way to winning political 
independence.

One of the ironies of history is that the Irish (the first victims of 
modern settler colonialism) and the Palestinians (the last victims of 
the same) were made to enter the "peace process" at the same time. 
The "peace process" has worked badly for the Irish; it has been a 
disaster for the Palestinians.

Yoshie