I was making this point in another context to someone who was suggesting the moral equivalence between ordinary Israelis and ordinary Palestinians, but last time I checked post-Yugoslav Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, etc. were created by driving large numbers of people out of their homes with a great deal of savagery. (And no, I did not suppofrt the NATO-US war in the Balkans.) And I think you know that too. It is true that the post-Yugoslavs seem, after horific wars and terrible atrocities, to have adjusted better than the Palestinians and the Israelis to the situation, a result the reasons for which are not entirely clear to me but for which we and probbaly they can be thankful.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 30, 2006, at 5:42 PM, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
>
> > So who, except for ordinary Palestinians trying to
> > make a living, raise kinds, or go to school, is
> > innocent in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
> Hamas?
> > Hezbollah? Fatah? And how is that different from
> the
> > Balkans and the FYS?
>
> Israel was created by driving a large number of
> people out of their
> homes. That's not the story in the Balkans. I think
> you know that.
>
> Doug
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