Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9612160740.A9961-0100000@bucc.bethlehem.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:26:08 +0000 From: "Dr. Saleem Zougbi" <mailto:saleem@BETHLEHEM.EDU> Subject: Re: colony To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Israel is a country that has risen on a land that belonged to another people, occupied another people, and still do so.Under 1948 it was Palestine that was occupied by the British.. and nort Israel.
Palestine was the state which was dismanteled by the creation of the State of Israel.
On top of this, I do not think that Israel is a truly developed country, if we get all American companies and rich Americans (who happen to be Jewish) who enhance the situation in Israel as being a truly developed country.
Furthermore, I do not think that this forum is good for more political argunments.
I just could not stand still when Israel is mentioned as a liberal country being developed and democratic while occupation and present day colonizations (Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories) are being enlarged with no mention to this.
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, nomad wrote:
> I submit Israel as being a former colony of a sort, (to colonizing zionists
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> >> => risen from the third world to take its place among the developed
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