Monday, August 15, 2005

"It's mine! God gave it to me!"

For a little more on how God's will is indistinguishable from "might makes right" - from Times coverage of folks resisting the Gaza pull-out:

Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and four smaller settlements in the West Bank marks the first time that Israel will pull out of areas that were conquered in the 1967 war and are considered by the Palestinians to be a part of a future state. But many of the settlers here regard Gaza as part of the biblical land of Israel granted to the Jews by God, and the pullout as a betrayal of its finest citizens by the state.

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