Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: A lesson in remembering that Israel could learn from Australia [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,961 posts)It doesn't make a difference. Of course the discrimination varies in nature between the countries. The fact is that Australia has acknowledged the wrongdoings of its past, and it's a starting point towards reconcilation. It's the sort of thing that needs to happen for a country to mature. Israel and the Palestinians aren't anywhere near that point yet, but the example of Australia is one that they'd do well to look at, imo...
on edit: forgot to mention that when it comes to evictions from land, that happened on a scale far beyond anything in the West Bank, and that wrong's gone a long way towards being righted in this High Court decision. It;s Wikipedia, but it's accurate and gives a good summary of all that stuff...
'Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (commonly known as Mabo) was a landmark High Court of Australia decision recognising native title in Australia for the first time. The High Court rejected the doctrine of terra nullius, in favour of the common law doctrine of aboriginal title, and overruled Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971), a contrary decision of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabo_v_Queensland