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On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:20:11 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

"Redman" in connection with Native Americans is a derogatory term.

You obviously don't know anything about the ancient peoples, medieval
history, or 19th and 20th Century history of that part of the Middle East.

There were at least two times when Partition, or the creation of two
separate nations, was offered to the self-described Palestinians...about
100 years ago and right after World War II. They turned it down both
times and in 1948, the Arab nations initiated a war against Israel. The
Israelis fought back and the Arabs lost.

The question is how many of those "Israelis" lived in Palestine five
years before that war? Virtually none of them. They were in Europe.
It certainly sounds like an invasion and subjugation of the native
population by europeans to me. Just another crusade.
The reality is that nobody gave a **** about brown people in those
days and they just ignored it.
After the fall of the Ottomans in WWI and the withdrawal of the
British after WWII, they thought nobody actually owned the land, at
least nobody who could fight back.

Conquest and subgation is a constant occurence during the history of man. Why is it any worse
now than it was 200, 400, 1000, 2000 or 4000 years ago? Within the last 100 years the borders
of many countries have been changed, many numerous times. Just take a look at the European
continent 100 years ago vs. today.