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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Well, the logic does apply... your statement that we killed all the Indians is inaccurate. We killed enough of them that they were greatly overpowered (like Palestine seems to be), but many remained. We just whittled away their land and crammed them into crappy reservations.
Ask any full-blooded native american today who deserves America's land, and see how he/she feels about it. They will no doubt say that they should get their land back. Is their argument valid?
By the way, I really am curious about your opinion, it's not a rhetorical question.
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In the Indians were offering resistance, if they were fighting, and dying for the cause. Yes I'd say pack your bags.
But they're not. Palestinians are. There is also the matter of time. Palestine began being torn up since the 1920s but really got messed up in 1948 which to many is still "not long ago". You can't say the same about the colonisation of US.
The Indians who are left might dream of getting the land back but they know that the world their great great grandparents knew and lived in is gone and is never comming back.