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To: besieged
Do a little complex thinking. I will agree that in the later history of the Trail of Tears, etc., not in early history, that the Indian tribes that were settled were moved off their lands, unfairly, in fact, just as Israel does the Palestinians. But at least they were allowed to live legitimately on multi-reservations to honor their tribal integrity. A far cry from what Israel allows the natives of the Palestine Territory. As to my family, the Indians whom they lived with, in the same shelters, before there were reservations to live on, for a long early history, in fact, they would have continued to live harmoniously together, just as the early 20th C. Palestinians allowed Jews in kibbutzim to live with them on their land. So did the Indians as our Thanksgiving testifies. However, when the Indians mistakenly identified us, not outsiders, as their enemy, they acted as Palestinians have, Palestinians recognizing, however, the REAL deception Zionists were about to perpetrate on them, with attacks, so a new war and escalation occurred.
Many Indians came from northern Japan across the Bering Strait, such as Apaches, Blackfeet, etc. so perhaps they should be sent back to those small islands? People have mixed amiably the world over no matter what the controlling leadership wrought, so let us leave old enmities to the past and share this land. My family worked long lives and hard for their share of this pie. My best friend as a child was an Indian who chose the military to protect this country they had come to be loyal to.
As force is not the answer, unless in coming to the aid of a persecuted people to stop the persecution, as Jews indeed benefited, you really should not adher to brute force, as, if Europeans had used it to the end as you suggest, the American Indians would have been wiped out entirely, a loss to our world. NO, since the end of empires the world has progressed to not taking others' lands as there is no other land for the people to exist on with their culture intact.
67 posted on 03/21/2002 7:30:42 PM PST by boltfromblue
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To: boltfromblue
What are you smoking??? Get help.
72 posted on 03/22/2002 6:08:59 AM PST by besieged
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To: boltfromblue
You leave out the fact that Jews always bought this land prior to 1948 (i.e. land was not seized) and after 1948 800,000 Jews were evicted from the Arab nations. Your thinking is as one sided as the Islamic propaganda is when all you see are Palestinian refugees. This is a flat out lie. There were even more Jewish refugees and the net worth of the property/land/bank accounts/ homes they were stripped of was higher than what the Palestinians lost.
88 posted on 03/23/2002 4:19:52 AM PST by dennisw
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