tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768103.post915223617172700814..comments2023-06-22T05:36:56.840-07:00Comments on Cosmic Therapy: Happy Birthday, Israel: 60 years of. . . .chiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04426775131776281207noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768103.post-29958427270109050382008-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:002008-05-04T18:48:00.000-07:00You need to read The War for Palestine: Rewriting ...You need to read <I>The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948</I>. It takes the actual data, diaries, government documents, and interviews about the situation in Palestine but does not ignore the human element (Edward Said wrote the afterward, BTW). They make no excuses for Israel, but they also make no excuses for the Muslim nations who were (and in many cases still are) making life just as hard or harder for refugees than Israel does.<BR/><BR/>My sense of fairness tells me that we should not focus on Israel while leaving the nations that interred Palestinians in "refugee" camps unmentioned. Lebanon and Syria were the worst (if my memory is correct), but Egypt and Iraq teated the Palestinians like pre-Holocaust Jews: controlling their movements and arresting them for seemingly random reasons.<BR/><BR/>As for responsibility: what is the suggested solution? Should the US and UK dissolve Israel? Yeah, that's going to stop the violence<B><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm_mark" REL="nofollow">¡</A></B> At what point does it become counterproductive (and a bit arrogant) for a country to "take responsibility" for her actions? <BR/><BR/>Recognition of the ethical results of one's past actions, and attempting to prevent them in the future, though, is the most ethical approach to history that I have yet found.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154556994302825043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768103.post-28195799903460242652008-04-20T20:48:00.000-07:002008-04-20T20:48:00.000-07:00Well, I'd be glad to email you if I knew for sure ...Well, I'd be glad to email you if I knew for sure who you are. jI have more than one candidate with "russell" in their name somewhere. You don't have your profile set up to let others see it. Big chicken. :-)chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04426775131776281207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768103.post-56590634995609318042008-04-19T17:08:00.000-07:002008-04-19T17:08:00.000-07:00Chip -- You can't try to re-write history that has...Chip -- You can't try to re-write history that has already been re-written. Oh, I'm sorry are you now working for a book company...then it is OK to interpret how you wish. As long as it is patriotic.<BR/><BR/>I love this country, but when will we own up to our mistakes and take responsibility for them? Freedom and power comes with the need for honesty and transparency. <BR/><BR/>Email me...because I have continued to be baffled about this situation.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078730618409496565noreply@blogger.com