Today, many Americans on the political Left reflexively sympathize with the Palestinians. They are absolutely sure that morality compels them to demand that Israelis give up land and some believe that Palestinians should be allowed to return to their old homes within the State of Israel. Yet most of these same people own land that originally belonged to Native Americans.

There is no doubt that the Native Americans were victims of a virtual genocide planned and carried out by settlers. There is no doubt that the Native Americans were herded onto, and many still remain in, reservations that are nothing more than refugee camps. So why don’t the people sympathetic to the Palestinians return their land to the Native Americans who have survived the genocide? How can they justify owning land that was expropriated from the people who had lived here for more than 10,000 years before the settlers arrived?

The Israelis can at least claim that they fear annihilation at the hands of people who have vowed to annihilate them. Contemporary Americans can claim no such fears. Their lives would not be threatened. All that would happen is that they would return the land to its original rightful owners.

Yet Americans who are quick to call for the Israelis to compromise their own security by handing land back to the Palestinians have absolutely no intention of handing the land they own back to the Native Americans. It has never even crossed their minds. Why is that? Because they are hypocrites.

It is easy for some Americans to feel morally superior by advising the Israelis to risk their lives by giving back land, while they themselves would not for an instant contemplate accepting the financial loss of giving back their property to the Native Americans. How can any Americans presume to tell the Israelis what to do with Israel if they are not prepared to negotiate with Native Americans on the restitution of all their land? There is an old saying, “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” Perhaps it should be updated to “People who live on stolen land should not self-righteously throw accusations.”

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First, I am not "your dear." Why do supposedly liberal people always attempt to "put women in their places" by leading with dismissive, sexist language?

"When was the last time we had some F-15s drop some bombs on a reservation?"

So let me get this straight. You're making the argument that YOU don't have to give back your property to the Native Americans because no one bombed them from airplanes? Sorry, that does not get you off the hook.

The fact is that the American Left is smugly urging the Israelis to do something that they, as individuals, would not contemplate for an instant. We call that hypocrisy.

something stinks,

You're still dodging the question. Why haven't you given back your property to the Native Americans? Why do you have one set of rules for Israel, and an entirely different set for yourself?

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"The genocide against the Native Americans was a little too successful for your fantasy to be realized, but I certainly think we can give them back Manhattan and Florida."

Stopping making excuses. What are YOU personally doing to give back property to the Native Americans? Nothing, obviously. Why not rectify the historical wrongs that YOU benefit from before you criticize anyone else?