>>But there is no point in catigating a country for the way it treated its native population. There is nowhere on earth populated by the people who evolved there.
>>Its how those populations are teated now and tomorrow that is the important issue.
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>At what point in history do you take as a cut-off point. Do the Palestinians have the right to the land that was stolen from them in 1967 ? Apart from the extremist, that's all they want, they don't want to go back as 1947 & have it all back.

Well, not any more. But until last year, they did. It was in their "constitution" that Israel was to be destroyed.