Reply #65: You are impossible! [View All]

[IA_Seth]

I fully understand the struggles MY people have gone through (both my Cherokee ancestors as well as my "American" counterparts)!

This doesn't excuse, forgive, make better, or make reasonable ANY action that Israel has taken against the Palestinians.

Does anyone in this country blame the Native Americans that raided the colonial villages and raided the settlers as they moved west? Hardly so! Most reasonable people can see that this is a deeply disturbing action of our past, not something to be used as a justification for further abuses!

Just as the Palestinians do now, the Native American people were fighting against a militarily superior, technologically advanced army of expansionists. So, instead of learning from America's multitude of failures in dealing with our Native people, Israel will continue down it's road in isolating and destroying the Palestinian way of life...just as we did with the Native Americans.

History does not HAVE to repeat itself, and usually only tends to for those who do not LEARN from the past. It IS possible for a 2 state solution, and it IS possible to have those 2 states be equal in viability.

If Israel continues to deal with the Palestinians the way the Americans dealt with the Native American people, it will be a sad reflection of the fact that our world learns nothing!