01-31-2018, 04:12 PM
(01-31-2018, 03:46 PM)Dill Wrote: I think some of the Indians died during that assimilation period, didn't they, trying to defend their land or something? Some were enslaved too, which is maybe a good way to learn the White Man's way. You would have to learn English and maybe become Christian. Indians, with their terrorist leaders, saw it otherwise, though.
I lived for a number of years on the Crow Reservation in Montana, by the way, where things are still going great! People still argue whether it was wrong to take Indian land by force or whether they deserved to lose it because they weren't really using the land to farm.
The problem in both cases--Palestinian and Native American--is that there are all these liberals around making a big human rights ruckus every time a nation with a more powerful military robs another nation. They did it when the Nazis invaded other countries and took their stuff. Now they are doing it when the Israelis rob Palestinians.
If people would just agree to drop the whole notion that all people are naturally equal and deserving of the same rights to property then we would get this Palestinian thing settled once and for all. Maybe some other things too. E.g., Why did God put our oil under their land? We could set that to rights in a heartbeat.
Trying to compare the British and Dutch colonists and Israelies to the Nazi’s is beyond jumping the shark.
The Palestinians aren’t being robbed by anyone other than their elected leaders. And the colonists just took land and actually built something great with it, yes they did violate some agreements, but we are all here today with Indians in the greatest country in the world. Indians even have their own land where they can take all the Americans money tax free from their casinos. I’m sure a lot of Americans would appreciate the opportunity that Indians have to put up these casinos. Not to mention getting preferred treatment on applications, etc.
Palestinian situation could be settled quickly. Join an Israel one state. Just as the Indians Settled in with us. Who knows maybe the Palestinians will get some tax free casinos.
Btw none of what I have suggested above is a violation of anyone’s human rights.
