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- From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
- Subject: Re: Occupation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.085800.1261@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:58:00 GMT
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- In article <42741@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> revans@euclid.ucsd.edu (Ron Evans) writes:
- ><1992Dec20.053857.20960@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim):
- >
- >If you think that the UN is picking on Israel it is because it is
- >the ONLY occupying force in the world today.
- >
- > Wrong. Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey are occupying
- > Kurdistan. The PKK (the Kurdish version of the PLO)
- > seeks to make Kurdistan an autonomous Kurdish state.
- > In the last eight years, over 3700 people have died
- > in clashes with the PKK in Turkey alone.
-
- And Syria is occupying Lebanon.
- And many people feel Britain is occupying Northern Ireland.
- And Serbia and Croatia are occupying Bosnia.
- And Turkey is occupying Cyprus.
- And, as Jake would say, the United States is occupying North America.
- And China is occupying Tibet.
- And India is occupying Kashmir.
- And Spain is occupying the Basque homeland.
- And there are all sorts of border disputes in Africa in which one
- country claims the other is occupying part of its land.
- And, of course, border disputes among the former Soviet republics,
- especially Azerbajan and Armenia.
-
- And I'm sure there are others.
-
- Why do I think I'm going to get hate mail from people who disagree with
- me? You can send it, but I'm going to ignore it; I was making this list
- to prove a point about Israel, not about these countries. I'm sure
- there are two sides to all these stories, just as there are about Israel.
-
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