Hello Robert!

25 Jun 18 11:11, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 RB> I see this a little like the middle east situation. Very little water,
 RB> plenty of desert. What did the original arab inhabitants make do with the
 RB> situation? Sat on their asses and smoked hookahs in a coffee shop. What
 RB> did the Israelis do? They worked like slaves, created irrigation systems
 RB> and made much of the desert green.

 RB> Naturally the arabs now want "their" land back - but of course _including_
 RB> the improvements by the Israelis. Without which, the arabs would still be
 RB> smoking hookahs in coffee ships and bemoaning their lot, while doing
 RB> nothing to improve it.

 RB> I'm sure the Indians woukld also like "their" land back...but not without
 RB> the infrastructure created without their own work, as a "gift" from the
 RB> Anglos who worked to create it.

 RB> But life doesn't work that way. People have to work and _then_ reap the
 RB> benefits, not simply take over land that others have worked their hearts
 RB> out to improve as a "freebe".

 I doubt, that they want their lands back with all newfangled things that
 have been buit en constructed.

 They want their lands an life as it was for eons.
 Complete with camels of buffalo. Being brave in hunts of skirmishes with
 neighbor tribes.

 A problem now is that ak47 and alike are available in large quantities.

Kees

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