tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post113868671786355936..comments2023-11-03T08:25:59.048-07:00Comments on The Enlightenment Project: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-53364265461223479982007-08-09T23:22:00.000-07:002007-08-09T23:22:00.000-07:00Israel is not by any stretch of the imagination co...Israel is not by any stretch of the imagination colonialist. They will gladly give up land if it means peace (e.g. Sinai Peninsula). They gave up Gaza even though it didn't mean peace by any stretch of the imagination. They offered to give up almost all of the West Bank in 2000, they didn't ask for reparations or even respect, just legal recognition (as simply existing) by Palestine.<BR/><BR/>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13576290321177181999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139373536916228272006-02-07T20:38:00.000-08:002006-02-07T20:38:00.000-08:00Right. But almost half are white settlers and, pro...Right. But almost half <I>are</I> white settlers and, proportionate to total population, that's more than the white settler population in South Asia or sub-Saharian Africa during the heyday of the British Empire. Then the rationale for colonialism was the same: white settlers would "develop" these territories. For that matter it was the same as the justification Locke suggested for colonizing Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139367434594360022006-02-07T18:57:00.000-08:002006-02-07T18:57:00.000-08:00Obviously, you aren't aware of the fact that over ...Obviously, you aren't aware of the fact that over half of the Jews in Israel are not"white settlers" but Jews whose famillies have lived in the Middle East even longer than the Arabs. After WWI, they fled the newly liberated Arab states where they were being persecuted, and helped develop the then desolate Palestinian Mandate. After 1948, those who had remained were expelled from Egypt, Iraq,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139359604887851122006-02-07T16:46:00.000-08:002006-02-07T16:46:00.000-08:00OK, plan B is the best hope we have, but lets have...OK, plan B is the best hope we have, but lets have plan C to deal with the exceptions.<BR/>At the risk of being unctuous, please keep on blogging. There is little other than this and a few other select blogs worth reading.MikeShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233159424542347960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139266933122108462006-02-06T15:02:00.000-08:002006-02-06T15:02:00.000-08:00Trope indeed. It's an empirical question: I think ...Trope indeed. It's an empirical question: I think almost all people can almost always be bought off, and gratitude has nothing to do with it.<BR/><BR/>Hasidic Jews may not integrate, but they don't blow people up either. I'm not sure that quite a few don't leave either--about 1/3 of the Amish, who look pretty much the same and (without high school educations) have a much harder time getting out-Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139263340598856402006-02-06T14:02:00.000-08:002006-02-06T14:02:00.000-08:00This is becoming a trope - give them prosperity an...This is becoming a trope - give them prosperity and they'll stop whinging. Fundamental error - people carry too much baggage to be grateful in one generation, or even two. Some, hasidic jews for instance, can have many generations of prosperity and peace and still not integrate. I admire your idealism, and your morality however it is grounded - and I still haven't figured that - but in reality MikeShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08233159424542347960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1138696154873327892006-01-31T00:29:00.000-08:002006-01-31T00:29:00.000-08:00Plan B is more workable and might have been the mo...Plan B is more workable and might have been the most generous and imaginative response. But as for plan A -- there just isn't the land. Israel and the West Bank are both tiny, and Gaza may be the most densely populated place in the world, I can't remember. It is certainly one of the most densely populated. What's around it is sand. If most of the west bank is about as naturally desolate as LA, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com