I'm camped in a vast and beutiful field with 3 terrific friends. I have all the comforts of home and most importantly, TIME to think about things. Today I thought of this story:
The space-faring aliens announced their coming in good English: said they come in peace and landed their mile-wide ship in a remote valley of Montana, South of Kalispelll on the Salish Indian reservation in sight of Mt Baldy.
They asked that a clearance zone of 20 miles all around their ship be established. A few hundred Indians and ranchers had to be moved to accomplish this. It was done.
Ambassadors from the US and Canada very quickly engaged the Aliens; learned that they were escaping a dying world and needed a home. They informed that they would be permanently occuping this area and would be compensating the US and the displaced locals by giving new technology and useful information from their advanced civilization. They tactfully informed the ambassadors that they were very powerful, possessing the wherewithal to defeat any earthly resistance. They had no intent to conquer, however, beyond this small territory.
Some of the dispossessed Indians and ranchers tried to reclaim their land and were met with an unpleasant force field. Thereafter, US troops secured the 40 mile diameter circle and the gradual acceptance of the aliens presence went forward steadily and peacefully.
In the months and years to come humanity learned much from the aliens because they were clearly a superior culture. Only afew thousand in number, they settled their land and provided for themselves.
Water rights and other tricky issues were negotiated satisfactorily. The whole world benefitted from the coming of the aliens.
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I tell you this story, sweet people because it is a fair approximation of the Israeli acquisition of the land of Israel.
With reasonable gentleness, they took the land they needed and repelled all resistance. They have the necessary force to defeat any and all the surrounding nations but surprisingly have restrained their capabilities and settled for a relatively small piece of land.
They would like to be good and useful neighbors but surprisingly are resisted with every tactic their neighbors can devise. They defend themselves with moderation, using only enough force to defend their people.
Their enemies, however are implacable, raging at the injustice of having their land taken away. They cannot appreciate the big-picture ethics of a desperate and persecuted people determined to have a homeland.
They cannot accept with any grace the bad luck of being in the way of a determined and powerful people.
Their pride is injured to look across a fence and see a superior culture and superior army.
The smart thing to do is to accept with good grace their bad luck and make the best of a bad situation.
The reasonable thing for the arab world to do is to assimilate their dispossessed and make peace with the powerful "aliens".
Fanatical people, however, will not see the immorality of waging a war that is probably unwinnable and with massive collateral casualties.
The world is littered with dispossessed, defeated and angry people. Whole generations of native Americans seethe with a useless and fruitless hatred of their dispossessers deriving a twisted source of satisfaction from their anger. And it is useless to point this out to them.
All these grieving people would do well to consider Japan who "took a lickin and kept on ticking."
And even made friends with their conquerers.
Some of the dispossessed Indians and ranchers tried to reclaim their land and were met with an unpleasant force field. Thereafter, US troops secured the 40 mile diameter circle and the gradual acceptance of the aliens presence went forward steadily and peacefully.
In the months and years to come humanity learned much from the aliens because they were clearly a superior culture. Only afew thousand in number, they settled their land and provided for themselves.
Water rights and other tricky issues were negotiated satisfactorily. The whole world benefitted from the coming of the aliens.
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I tell you this story, sweet people because it is a fair approximation of the Israeli acquisition of the land of Israel.
With reasonable gentleness, they took the land they needed and repelled all resistance. They have the necessary force to defeat any and all the surrounding nations but surprisingly have restrained their capabilities and settled for a relatively small piece of land.
They would like to be good and useful neighbors but surprisingly are resisted with every tactic their neighbors can devise. They defend themselves with moderation, using only enough force to defend their people.
Their enemies, however are implacable, raging at the injustice of having their land taken away. They cannot appreciate the big-picture ethics of a desperate and persecuted people determined to have a homeland.
They cannot accept with any grace the bad luck of being in the way of a determined and powerful people.
Their pride is injured to look across a fence and see a superior culture and superior army.
The smart thing to do is to accept with good grace their bad luck and make the best of a bad situation.
The reasonable thing for the arab world to do is to assimilate their dispossessed and make peace with the powerful "aliens".
Fanatical people, however, will not see the immorality of waging a war that is probably unwinnable and with massive collateral casualties.
The world is littered with dispossessed, defeated and angry people. Whole generations of native Americans seethe with a useless and fruitless hatred of their dispossessers deriving a twisted source of satisfaction from their anger. And it is useless to point this out to them.
All these grieving people would do well to consider Japan who "took a lickin and kept on ticking."
And even made friends with their conquerers.
A SHORT STORY OF ALIENS -----AND PALESTINIANS
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May 22, 2018
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Reviewed by Unknown
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May 22, 2018
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