Newt's right, but...

Submitted by Kepha Hor (United States), Dec 11, 2011 at 08:18

Newt was off course right. I'm old enough to remember when the Arab-Israeli conflict ceased to be about the greater Arab nation and became a struggle for the "Palestinians".

But aren't all nations, to some degree or another, invented? I know enough history to know that probably the only peoples of high civilization to inhabit the same land as their Neolithic ancestors are the Tamils, the Mon, the Khmer, and the Han Chinese living in the Loess Plateau and middle Huang He regions--and even the latter have surely absorbed a large number of Central Asian, Siberian, Korean, and other immigrants over the millennia. And, I suppose, when they invent a time machine and travel back far enough, they'll probably find even the Tamils and Khmer and North Chinese displacing someone.

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