Oh, workplace silence! It's diplomatic but sometimes I just come home and get online and sigh with releif.
What is they metaphysical brain washing people have about "the land"? The land doesn't belong to us because it "feels" like it does!
A lot of indigenous people in other nations would argue differently on that one - but then, they're not generally in a position of using military force to occupy and oppress someone else to claim that land. People do feel very connected to their land - the fourth-generation and fifth-generation farmers around here certainly do, let alone people who've been here for 17,000 years (40-60,000 years in other areas of Australia) and I don't feel that you can dismiss the claims of Israeli feeling for the land (a people who happen to currently be powerful) without dismissing the claims of other people - including the Palestinians.
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What is they metaphysical brain washing people have about "the land"? The land doesn't belong to us because it "feels" like it does!
A lot of indigenous people in other nations would argue differently on that one - but then, they're not generally in a position of using military force to occupy and oppress someone else to claim that land. People do feel very connected to their land - the fourth-generation and fifth-generation farmers around here certainly do, let alone people who've been here for 17,000 years (40-60,000 years in other areas of Australia) and I don't feel that you can dismiss the claims of Israeli feeling for the land (a people who happen to currently be powerful) without dismissing the claims of other people - including the Palestinians.