"a British MP, gave a speech to her Parliament in 2003 suggesting a like comparison, for which she was rightfully castigated, I might add." -- Why, indeed, would she be "rightfully castigated"? the only difference I see in the Palestinian haulocost and the Jewish one is that the Protestants' belief in the filth of money made them give the lowest of the low jobs to the Jews, who became quite good at it; the Palestinians have not been so blessed in their victimization. 
 
The Promised Land was to be given to the Israelites by God, not by the US & Britain, who victimized the Palestinians that day shortly after wiping out the big bad Germans. Who is it will wipe out the big bad USians? 
 
I do not minimize the haulocost--the Jewish one--at all: indeed, such genocide (a word that did not exist in the English language until the 1970's) has been the norm for Christian nations...and other established heirarchies in order to establish ligitmacy for themselves. Given that, as SO many people say, nothing changes, could we not say that the Jewish imposition of haulocost on the Palestinians is...normal? 
 
Why did the Hebrews roam around the Sinai Peninsula for 40 yrs? Hmm...that's 2 generations. Could it be to purge the old and establish the new? Going on this assumption, the Jews should not have been handed their Promised Land until 2045. 
 
Dick A. Koch. Apt name.

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