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If the Palestinians were forced to leave the land the occupied for 2000 years, shouldn't the Native Americans get their land back which has been occupied for only 200 years?
This is a serious question please give serious answers.
5 Answers
- m iLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Your question seems a little upside-down and backwards.
Native American citizens of the U.S. can live anywhere in the U.S. and outside of the reservations own land just like any other citizen (inside the reservations it all belongs to them at least in theory). The Native Americans are full citizens of any country they live or were born in, equal under the law and their children as well even if born outside. That isn't to say they're not owed a lot more, huge chunks of Native American land was simply taken from them by the U.S. after the U.S. signed treaties explicitly giving saying the lands belonged to them - they say that there isn't a single unbroken treaty ever made with Native American tribes. Furthermore, there are large tracts of land in many parts of the country that could probably be given back to the Native Americans without too much pain - some particularly sacred mountains should be included even if it costs more.
The Palestinians had been living on their land some for probably 5000 years, since the Caananites first built Jerusalem. Some ancestors were more recent, some from further back. It's a mere fact of demographics, people immigrate and emigrate but most stay put. (even when the Romans were denuding Palestine of Jews, it was only a that part of modern Palestine sometimes called Judea, the rest of the people in the area e.g. Galilee, Samaria stayed put and probably absorbed some refugees, and the Jews and other semitic peoples there eventually became Christians or Muslims)
However, the Jewish state doesn't admit them as equal citizens under the law, and denies people who were born in the land citizenship and their children also. Palestinian (non-Jewish) Jerusalemites, those who weren't there when Israel took it over or left for short periods, have been denied re-entry, denied permission to live in Jerusalem ever since.
Yes, the Palestinians should get their land, villages, homes and stolen property back. It doesn't mean the Jewish Israelis should be forced to leave, just live in a country where there are equal rights for all. Really, the "Holy Land" should be a place of freedom, equality, justice and peace, instead of the one that practices exclusion based on religion, ethnic cleansing and WMDs that Israel has made of it.
- BeachBumLv 71 decade ago
No there is a big difference:
The native Americans of the USA were spread out over the territory with no one unified form of government... were in separate tribes. The Palestinians, while also consisting of tribes, maintained a government of the entire region.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Gee, what a neat idea. Where do you live? We'll let them have it first. We simply had a better use for the land. The myth that the native american was always a noble hunter-gatherer with a close bond to the land is just that - a myth. Indian historians will tell you that their ancestors used up all the resources in their surrounding area and moved on, leaving behind an ecological disaster area. Garbage was never buried, it was just left to attract vermin. This information came from Osage historians themselves.
- pgbLv 41 decade ago
If we start doing that kind of thing, everyone will be displaced. What if there were other people in the land now called the USA before the Native Americans?
Maybe Kennewick Man isn't Native American. Maybe the Native Americans killed his entire race.
Intelligent people move forward to success. Israel is a good example of that, they could be poor and angry and still whining about how so many of their people were murdered.
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