Re: why Deceiver ("Saitan")?

"António Marques" <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote ...

People have been routinely driven from their homes in the most barbaric ways, forced to leave property, memories and graves behind. It's hideous. Let's look at a couple of numbers (by no means exhaustive):

1945: 9 million germans* from eastern Europe
1948: 750 thousand arabs from israel
195s: 800 thousand jews from arab countries
1962: 900 thousand 'whites'** from Algeria
1974: 200 thousand greek cypriots from northern Cyprus
1975: 600 thousand portuguese*** from Angola and Mozambique

In only one of these cases did the evacuees have to leave for no other reason than because they were there. I'll leave out Cyprus, about which I know buggerall, but the other four were all in reaction to things, sometimes much worse things, that the evacuees, or more often their co-nationals, had previously done to the rest of the locals, or to the locals' ethnic group elsewhere.

That's just a comment. No implications intended. Certainly no disagreement.

Of course, as you say, those are only a small selection of the examples you could have quoted, and in many, perhaps most, of the others, it isn't possible to assign any "blame" at all to the evacuees. Someone wanted their land, so they were invited to leave.

Darfur, anyone?

Look forward to it happening a lot more as the world's carrying capacity decreases over the next century.

> Nationalism is so-o-o cool!!!

And nationalism is, more often than not, driven by economics.

John.




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