Sir Peter Ustinov said it best – “Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
You post about snow, you get comments. You post about a conflict which produces sharp divisions in thought, well, not so much. Maybe it’s because I post less about snow, I’m not sure.
Who gets what? That’s one of life’s great questions. The answer is – those with the biggest and best human meat grinders. Because if you can take it and hold it – it’s yours.
I do know this. If the people of Israel have the right to a land because it’s viewed as their ancestral home then we had better pack up shop and be prepared to move back to wherever it is that all of us came from, because this entire continent rightfully belongs to others. Of course, we took if from them, subjugated or slaughtered them, indoctrinated them and even stripped them of their culture and language at times. The only reason that we’re here is because the aboriginal peoples of North America lacked three things when we showed up – superior arms, complete mistrust, and immune systems completely unaccustomed to foreign illnesses.
By the end of the 19th Century, only 250,000 Native Americans were left in the US – and that only takes into account the US, not Canada or Mexico. Archeologists have discovered artifacts that date the existence of aboriginals along what is now the New England coastline to 3,000 BC. In truth, the peoples indigenous to this continent have Paleolithic origins, which means that they first inhabited the continent between 15,000 and 11,000 BP.
In conclusion – when it comes to land rights with regards to ancestral perpetuity, we’re screwed. Thankfully we took care of those pesky aboriginals long ago, so we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief.