06-09-2007, 12:13 AM
Wait a minute, I thought only some tamilians had the sole right to claim Sumerian relationship <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo--> . As per the current expert's theories, we all evolved from Africa and migrated. In the process we are all mixed up, and still very close, genetically, to Chimps. Any migration would have involved in people rubbing shoulders with other cultures.
Coming to the core topic - Israel, as the 6-day war was in the news recently: Like many kids in India, I grew up admiring Jews and Israel for being able to survive in the midst of turmoil. Admired at their irrigation capabilities, scientific research, democracy, determination to fight it out.
I guess it must be, at a subconscious level, because of them being tormented by people of the same faith as people of the country that is tormenting us. I know I could have said the earlier sentence simply as "Tormented by Islam". Also another similarity is that just like India, they are surrounded by neighbors who dislike them. As I grew and read more about the formation of State of Israel, I have concluded that the formation remains a sore thorn in my feelings for Israel.
If we were to forget about the religions of the people for a moment, then it becomes thus: A group called 'A' was living in a place. A group 'B' claimed ancestry to that piece of land thousands of years prior the current time. So they decided to re-create the nation in the piece of land. Another group 'C' helped in the creation. Obviously the group 'A' are not going to like it, because they have been living there for centuries now. What right is it for anybody to ask 'A' to split and give a part of their land to 'B' ?
Added: The dead Sumerians would be so proud, with what that so many people claim relationship with them <!--emo&
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Coming to the core topic - Israel, as the 6-day war was in the news recently: Like many kids in India, I grew up admiring Jews and Israel for being able to survive in the midst of turmoil. Admired at their irrigation capabilities, scientific research, democracy, determination to fight it out.
I guess it must be, at a subconscious level, because of them being tormented by people of the same faith as people of the country that is tormenting us. I know I could have said the earlier sentence simply as "Tormented by Islam". Also another similarity is that just like India, they are surrounded by neighbors who dislike them. As I grew and read more about the formation of State of Israel, I have concluded that the formation remains a sore thorn in my feelings for Israel.
If we were to forget about the religions of the people for a moment, then it becomes thus: A group called 'A' was living in a place. A group 'B' claimed ancestry to that piece of land thousands of years prior the current time. So they decided to re-create the nation in the piece of land. Another group 'C' helped in the creation. Obviously the group 'A' are not going to like it, because they have been living there for centuries now. What right is it for anybody to ask 'A' to split and give a part of their land to 'B' ?
Added: The dead Sumerians would be so proud, with what that so many people claim relationship with them <!--emo&
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