When Putin wanted to buy an American president, HE WENT TO JARED.
When Netanyahu wanted to buy an American president, HE WENT TO JARED.
Sad that Netanyahu, the heir to the legacy of David Ben-Gurion or Golda Meir, now wants to treat the Palestinians the way the anti-Semites of Europe treated his people.
And it is ironic that Americans would honor the “right” of homeland for Jews but not for the original inhabitants of our own continent.
Indigenous Americans occupied this continent for ten to twenty THOUSAND years before the first Europeans began permanent settlements. The first European settlements in America began barely 400 years ago (1620); most of the land taken from Indigenous Americans has been in the last 100-200 years.
In contrast, Palestinians (Arab Muslims) occupied the area of Palestine for almost 1400 years (since Muslims defeated Byzantine Romans in 637 AD) prior to the land being forcibly taken from them in 1948 and given to people from the European diaspora, who had not lived there for almost 1700 years since the Christian Roman Empire under Constantine had made it a Christian land until the Muslims took it. (The whole point of the failed Crusades was an UNSUCCESSFUL attempt to return the Arab controlled lands to Christians [not Jews]).
By 1948, the Jews had not controlled the lands of Palestine far longer in years (almost 1700 years) than Europeans have occupied the land of the First Americans. Nowhere in North America has the land been occupied more than 400 years.
No person of European descent, living on any land originally occupied by First Americans, has any right to tell the Palestinians that it was right to take the land they occupied for almost 1400 years and give it to people who had not controlled the land in almost 1700 years unless and until they are willing to turn over land they have occupied far less time to those they took it from far more recently.
When Putin wanted to buy an American president, HE WENT TO JARED.
When Netanyahu wanted to buy an American president, HE WENT TO JARED.
Sad that Netanyahu, the heir to the legacy of David Ben-Gurion or Golda Meir, now wants to treat the Palestinians the way the anti-Semites of Europe treated his people.
And it is ironic that Americans would honor the “right” of homeland for Jews but not for the original inhabitants of our own continent.
Indigenous Americans occupied this continent for ten to twenty THOUSAND years before the first Europeans began permanent settlements. The first European settlements in America began barely 400 years ago (1620); most of the land taken from Indigenous Americans has been in the last 100-200 years.
In contrast, Palestinians (Arab Muslims) occupied the area of Palestine for almost 1400 years (since Muslims defeated Byzantine Romans in 637 AD) prior to the land being forcibly taken from them in 1948 and given to people from the European diaspora, who had not lived there for almost 1700 years since the Christian Roman Empire under Constantine had made it a Christian land until the Muslims took it. (The whole point of the failed Crusades was an UNSUCCESSFUL attempt to return the Arab controlled lands to Christians [not Jews]).
By 1948, the Jews had not controlled the lands of Palestine far longer in years (almost 1700 years) than Europeans have occupied the land of the First Americans. Nowhere in North America has the land been occupied more than 400 years.
No person of European descent, living on any land originally occupied by First Americans, has any right to tell the Palestinians that it was right to take the land they occupied for almost 1400 years and give it to people who had not controlled the land in almost 1700 years unless and until they are willing to turn over land they have occupied far less time to those they took it from far more recently.