I was expecting for the usual suspects to react to the term "territoriality" used in the news reports about ETA's commitment to peace and to the self determination for the Basque people.
And our favorite not-so-in-the-closet-fascist in the blogosphere did not let me down.
Barcepundit provides us with this pearl of wisdom:
This tells you just how ignorant he is when it comes to Basque history.
The Basque nationalists do not want to annex Nafarroa to the Basque Country (actually, the Basque Autonomous Community). To say something like that is to follow the Francoist Bible of The One Spain Under God to the letter.
Why do I insist in this issue?
Well, quite simple, Nafarroa, the ancient kingdom you may know as Navarre, is in fact the Basque Country.
How can you annex the Basque Country to the Basque Country?
What is today known as the Basque Autonomous Community was once known as Navarra Marítima, meaning, the Navarrese provinces that bordered the Bay of Biscay. Those Maritime Navarre provinces in Hegoalde are Araba (Álava), Bizkaia (Biscaya) and Gipuzkoa (Guipuzcoa).
But one more of those provinces is Lapurdi, known as Labourd, which is today in Iparralde, the Northern Basque Country, known around the world as one of the provinces that conform the Pays Basque in France.
And to complicate Barcepundit's position even more, one more province within the Pays Basque is called Navarre.
Wait, isn't Navarre an Spanish foral community? How can Navarre be in France?
Well, that is something that the colonialist Spaniards always fail to mention, that part of Navarre is in Hegoalde, the southern Basque Country, and part of Navarre is in Iparralde, the northern Basque Country.
You see, when the Catholic Kings decided to invade the Basque Kingdom of Navarre they finally defeated the Navarrese at Andoain. But the Navarrese resistance continued in the part of Navarre north from the Pyrenees, until the French decided to take over the northern portion of the once independent Navarrese land.
To wrap up this post: the Navarrese are Basques just as much as the Basques are Navarrese, we are one and the same.
That is why the concept of territoriality for the Basques can be resumed in one simple equation: 4 + 3 = 1.
The seven provinces are one country.
Zazpiak bat, the seven are one.
And our favorite not-so-in-the-closet-fascist in the blogosphere did not let me down.
Barcepundit provides us with this pearl of wisdom:
[*territoriality is the euphemism Basque nationalists use for the annexation of neighboring province of Navarra in Spain and three departments in France. Don't know about the chances on the former, depends on how appeaser feels Zapatero; but on the latter I'd say they're dreaming if they think France will agree]
This tells you just how ignorant he is when it comes to Basque history.
The Basque nationalists do not want to annex Nafarroa to the Basque Country (actually, the Basque Autonomous Community). To say something like that is to follow the Francoist Bible of The One Spain Under God to the letter.
Why do I insist in this issue?
Well, quite simple, Nafarroa, the ancient kingdom you may know as Navarre, is in fact the Basque Country.
How can you annex the Basque Country to the Basque Country?
What is today known as the Basque Autonomous Community was once known as Navarra Marítima, meaning, the Navarrese provinces that bordered the Bay of Biscay. Those Maritime Navarre provinces in Hegoalde are Araba (Álava), Bizkaia (Biscaya) and Gipuzkoa (Guipuzcoa).
But one more of those provinces is Lapurdi, known as Labourd, which is today in Iparralde, the Northern Basque Country, known around the world as one of the provinces that conform the Pays Basque in France.
And to complicate Barcepundit's position even more, one more province within the Pays Basque is called Navarre.
Wait, isn't Navarre an Spanish foral community? How can Navarre be in France?
Well, that is something that the colonialist Spaniards always fail to mention, that part of Navarre is in Hegoalde, the southern Basque Country, and part of Navarre is in Iparralde, the northern Basque Country.
You see, when the Catholic Kings decided to invade the Basque Kingdom of Navarre they finally defeated the Navarrese at Andoain. But the Navarrese resistance continued in the part of Navarre north from the Pyrenees, until the French decided to take over the northern portion of the once independent Navarrese land.
To wrap up this post: the Navarrese are Basques just as much as the Basques are Navarrese, we are one and the same.
That is why the concept of territoriality for the Basques can be resumed in one simple equation: 4 + 3 = 1.
The seven provinces are one country.
Zazpiak bat, the seven are one.
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