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"Are these unhappy people, the subjects of our King, in a state of rebellion or are they an injured people, whom we have invaded and with whom we are at war?
Are they within the reach of our laws; or are they to be judged by the law of nations? Are they to be viewed in the light of murderers, or as prisoners of war?
Are they British subjects at all, or a foreign enemy who has never yet been subdued and which resists our usurped authority and domination ... We are at war with them: they look upon us as enemies as invaders as oppressors and persecutors they resist our invasion. They have never been subdued, therefore they are not rebellious subjects, but an injured nation defending in their own way, their rightful possessions, which have been torn from them by force."
Letter written to a Launceston newspaper, 1831
Taken from
http://www.atsic.gov.au/news_room/A..._Fact/index.asp
The webpage of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Commission.
The aboriginal people also know what its like to be dispossessed, disenfranchised their very right to exist denied through cynical racist arguments,like "they dont have a country, they dont have any laws, they have no national identity"
Change the word aboriginal to palestinian. I think i made my point.
Nothing ever changes the world is always full of cowardly, cynical bullies who use their power to steal and murder and then try and conceal their crimes by either denying they ever happened or creating elaborate fictions so they can sleep at night.
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