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In a related story, a group of isolated humans had been living for several generations on an alien planet, on extremely good terms with its non-human inhabitants and without the slightest conflict with them.

Nevertheless, the captain of an arriving Earth ship forces them at gunpoint to leave the planet, stating: " Can you speak for your grandchildren and for their grandchildren, for generations which will grow more and more numerous and need more and more land?

When my ancestors arrived in Palestine, they did not intend to depose the local Arabs and drive them into refugee camps — but in the end, that's what they did.

" ( The captain's family name is " Ben Yehuda "— the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again.