Just to be a stickler, the Crimean Tatars were finally allowd to return in the 1990s (but a lot have gone to Turkey).
Personally I think the idea of people "deserving an ancestral homeland" sounds kind of volkish.
--- Michael Hirsch <mmh655 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joanna:
>
> What exactly do you support? The ideal of a unitary
> secular state or the
> reality of a Middle Eastern peace? If I thought for
> a moment that a secular
> bi-or multi-national state were possible in
> Palestine, I'd jettison any
> support for a two-state solution. It cannot happen.
> Not in our lifetimes.
> The author's airy talk about KKK politics is gallery
> rhetoric and beside the
> point. Populations are routinely routed in wars.
> It's lousy; it must stop.
> And it's the outcome of military conflict, which
> must stop. Want to make
> any peace settlement contingent on the right of
> return? Want to resettle the
> Sudeten Germans, too? How about the pro-fascist
> Crimean Tatars. Or is it
> just the uprooted and oppressed Palestinians who
> deserve an ancestral
> homeland? Chomsky hasn't become a Zionist cats paw
> and it's a dumb,
> self-congratulatory if not self-referential argument
> to say he has. So I ask
> again, what's to agree with?
>
> Mike Hirsch
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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