A re-post and expansion of a fragment of an earlier Entry, on Israel and Palestine.

Israel is a nation, recognised by most of the world as a nation, and has as much right to exist in and of itself, secure in its' own borders, as any other nation. ... Which brings us back around to modern-day Palestine. Here is a group whose inhabitants (hypothetically) want to be free and prosperous, are (supposedly) kept from being so by a clearly prosperous government that they have little ...