Israel, Palestine and Dispossession

[Clutch Munny]

Originally Posted by Paranoid

So the "dispossessed" Palestinians are really a mix of many other people, and most of their ancestors were NOT in Palestine 200 years ago.

Sorry, could you explain the point of this central theme in your post? Is it that the Palestinians have a degree of ethnic diversity that shows they were not dispossessed, or the alleged fact that their ancestors came from elsewhere, or that they came from elsewhere more recently than 200 years ago?

All these things are true of the place I grew up, Saskatchewan. But if the British stepped in and simply declared a Mennonite state there (hey, there are large tracts of land legally owned by Mennonites!), the people thereby dispossessed would be no less dispossessed for it.


I also didn't quite follow the distinction between stealing and "winning in battle". If I pick your pocket, that's stealing; but if I kick the shit out of you and take your wallet, that's winning it in battle? Maybe you didn't mean this in the way it came across.