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To: Eleutheria5
I fail to understand why the world thinks population transfers are so harsh when one of the things the Allies did after WWII was to forcibly transfer ethnic Germans out of vast areas where they had formerly lived. Certainly transfer is preferable to the misery suffered by both communities.

But ultimately there is no secular solution. No secular political program will ever alleviate the problem any more than a secular ethnic Jewish state has solved Jewish problems.

The world thinks the lesson it was supposed to learn from Jewish suffering is the need for massive secularization. This is not what Israel was supposed to teach the nations. Considering the totalistic nature of Halakhah the association of secularism with Jews is really ironic.

8 posted on 07/10/2012 3:00:57 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I suggest Egon Hostovsky’s novel Missing for a Christian Czech’s perspective on the forcible transport of ethnic Germans after WW II. He felt that that act deprived the anti-Communist Czech nationalists of all moral authority, so when the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, there was almost no opposition, a fait accompli.

But I’ve already said in the post to which you are responding what I think of transferring the Arabs from Israel, and the conditions I would like to see for that.


9 posted on 07/10/2012 3:33:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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