Is your land rightfully yours?

Question

Since jews claim that Palestine is rightfully there's because that is 1- their promised land and 2- they were there first then could we say the same about Native Americans claiming that the land that was taken from them and should be given back to them?

P.S. Native Americans were almost decimated. Their death outnumber the death of jews.

Answer 1

No matter which way you want to spend it....Might Makes Right...live with it dude!

Answer 2

finders keepers

  thats the rule!!

Answer 3

Yes, Palestine should continue to lob rockets at hospitals, children and women...

This is perfectly justified because we all know what peace loving rational people they are...  Even when they strap bombs to them selves and blow up people.

This is particularly apparent  when they jump in the streets for hours, shouting with joy and extisty over the news that a 6  month old  Israeli  child had his head splattered like a melon by one of their homicide  bombers.

Yes the PLO Rocks !!   GO TERROR !

Answer 4

Your numbers are wrong. There were never more than

200,000 Native American Indians on the continent to begin with. More Jews died in Aushwitz alone than there were native Americans.

If you're going to make silly arguements why not try to be correct with your facts - or would that be inconvenient?.

Answer 5

most native american indians believed you could not own land just as you cannot own the sky so most of them did not feel that way

Answer 6

Well of course not it belongs to the government and as soon as I dont comply they  will throw me in jail and take my property, welcome to America!

Answer 7

What's your point?

Insulting the Jews or

Insulting the Americans?

War is never fair; treaty's are nearly always broken; history is often distorted...

So what is your point?

Turning back history to "make things right" in your eyes?

Can't put the Jeanie back into the bottle

Can't cross over a burned bridge

Can't cry over spilled milk

What's done is done.

The dead are dead.

Reparations to a current generation does not make up for past damage done to a prior generation.  The People who were wronged have passed away; their suffering is over.

The focus needs to be on the Present to make good for the Future.  Stop with the land wars, stop with all wars.

...Idealism....

Won't work.  

People will continue to fight.  People will continue to suffer.  People will continue to experience injustice. People will continue to die.  It's all in the cycle of life.

You are born, you grow older, you get old, then you die.

And decisions made by those in power and influence will continue to take place and rock your world whether you like it or not.  

The Jews have their Israel legally today.  Let them have their identity, statehood, community and life.

Palestinians are Arabs.  Their Arab countrymen kicked them out, cast them out, did not want anything to do with them UNTIL the Palestinians had political power.  So now their Arab brothers "use" them as a pawn for political power and influence.  Take it up with them, if you have matters that concern how poorly the Palestinians are living.....

The Native American Indian are their own nation now, with full political power at their own discretion.  They are a Nation within a Nation with their own soverenity.  There are only estimations of deaths of Native American Indians, estimations, whereby there are records of Jews that died.

Do NOT compare the two.  Totally different situations; totally different type persons in power; different times.

There is power in moving forward and not Repeating History.

Repeating History

Repeating History

Bottom-Line, it's merely man's inhumanity to man.

071708  4:45

Answer 8

The Palestinians are not using all or even the best tools ant their disposal. Non              violent resistance would be more effective than killing of random innocents because Israel depends on the support of Western countries to survive. Their urge for vengeance  seem stronger than the urge for independence.

Edit: There were an estimated 2 million Native Americans in the US when Columbia discover American but their population was reduced to 200,000 by the time we became a country. If You include All the America's there was nearly 20 million before the arrival of the Europeans

Answer 9

Bring it!  I'll kill for what is mine and I wouldn't hold it against you if you wanted to as well.  It's a matter of who is alive in the end.  If I was indiginous I would feel the same way.

The problem is that current affairs are trendy.  If you walked into my house and demanded my land and killed me, everyone would think you were nuts.  But if you came into my house and I killed you; everyone would praise me.  Not because of race, but rather people just don't  like strangers in their houses.

Answer 10

In the global sense, the land belongs to the person that can hold it. the US belongs to it's people because we were able to defeat  the native americans and hold the land and defend it from invaders.  Simple enough. The Jews own the land that they live on because they have the ability to defend it.

Now if you want to talk morals thats another question all together.

Answer 11

i agree with you on #2...it is just glossed over in history lessons; i actually grew up thinking Indians were "the bad guys", watching shows like Lone Ranger, etc.; if you want to get technical, take a look at the old map of Mexico and USA...Absolute Vodka ran an ad with it in Mexico but we Americans got mad about it and they pulled it; so, about 2/3 of US was taken from Mexico

Answer 12

Israel isn't owned by the Jews because they had "first title" to the land...it's owned by the Israelis because when the British owned it last (in 1948), they had every right to do with it as they pleased, so they granted it to the present day Israelis (through a United Nations Charter)...and Israel is not exclusively Jewish, but also Christian, Bahai, and Moslem as well as many other religions.

As soon as Israel declared it's independence in May of 1948, it was the recipient of unprovoked attacks by the Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.  Israel rightfully fought back and won...on the land that was GIVEN to them by the previous rightful owners (Britain).

Frankly however, in the Jewish religion (as well as Islam), we believe that the land is owned only by G-d.  What we choose to do with it and how we treat it should be as if it was on loan to us by G-d.  It should be respectful.

Answer 13

Yes, that is what should happen!