BigBallinStalin wrote:Isn't the British exportation of citizens to Malvinas similar to Israel's settlement program?
Basically, a country ships its people into an disputed territory, and after a sufficient number have been inserted (and a sufficient number have been excluded--Palestinians, Argentinians, etc.), then the country can exert a more "justifiable" claim to the territory.
The Falklands were uninhabited. No Argentinians or Palestinians were expelled from the Falklands. But I would also like to point out that the Falkland Islands were in fact first discovered by a Dutch explorer Sebald De Weert so I think The Netherlands should take over the Falklands (that in 1600 were actually called the Sebald Islands). The English only landed there in 1690.
"It was on his homeward leg back to the Netherlands after having left the Straits of Magellan that De Weert noticed some unnamed and uncharted islands, at least islands that did not exist on his nautical charts. The islands Sebald de Weert charted were a small group off the northwest coast of the Falkland Islands and are in fact part of the Falklands. De Weert then named these islands the “Sebald de Weert Islands” and the Falklands as a whole were known as the Sebald Islands until well into the 18th century. In 1766, the British settlers of Saunders Island renamed the small group of the NW that De Weert had plotted Jason Islands and Carcass Island after the vessels Jason and Carcass on which they had arrived. In Spanish these are still known as the "Islas Sebaldes" or "Sebaldinas" for short."
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