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March 27, 2007

Root Cause Palestine/Middle East

I linked to these maps on Sunday, but Sunday's a little slow here at PastPeak so you may have missed them. They're stunning.

American media maintain the fiction that Palestinian hostility toward Israel is baseless, fanatical anti-Semitism. But you can't look at those maps and not realize instantly that Palestinians have a legitimate grievance. Which is why you'll never see those maps in the New York Times.

Native Americans didn't hate Europeans until Europeans came and stole their land. It wasn't anti-Europeanism. It was anti-having-their-land-stolen.

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Comments

Sorry, but I must correct you: It's anti-having-their-land-stolen-ISM.

Posted by: LarryE at March 27, 2007 03:57 PM

Yes, you're right. That would have been better.

:-)

Posted by: Jonathan at March 27, 2007 04:52 PM

"That would have been better."

Well, then, prove yourself a big-time pundit: Change the copy, delete the comments, and pretend that's the way it was originally.

Posted by: LarryE at March 28, 2007 01:31 AM