Helen Thomas Retires Effective Immediately

[Mark Stapleton]

You can if you try! And also with the Boer trek in South Africa.

Not even if you try.

Here you go: all modern humans originated in Africa. Thus the boer trekkers were returning to their ancestral homeland, as the Jews did in Israel. The difference is 2,000 years vs. oh let's call it 2 million just for the sake of a round number. But in the lifetime of an individual, is there a difference between 20 generations ago and 2,000 generations ago? Of course not.

That doesn't make the colonisation of Palestine analogous to that of the Americas I'm afraid.