May 22, 2021
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by
Dr. Peter Laurie
1.The Jewish people have a legal and moral right to establish their homeland in Palestine and they have done so (no, Zionism is not racism as proclaimed by the 1975 UN General Assembly Resolution, against which Barbados voted).
2. The Palestinian people (who, according to one historical conjecture, are the descendants of the Jews left behind in Jerusalem during the Babylonian exile: a savage historical irony if true) have a legal and moral right to establish their homeland in Palestine, but they have not been able to do so as yet (this is referred to nostalgically as the two-state solution).
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