>>>>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.
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>>Well, not any more. But until last year, they did. It was in their "constitution" that Israel was to be destroyed.
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>September 9th, 1993 was when Yasser Arafat wrote to Yitzhak Rabin formally recognizing the right of existence of Israel, complying with UN resolution 242 (the same one under which Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders).

"The Charter [Palestine National Charter] was revised in the presence of U.S. Bill Clinton in December 1998."... to remove clauses in the Palestinian National Charter calling for the destruction of Israel. http://www.adl.org/israel/advocacy/gl_plo.asp
I was off by a few years.