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I know that this is considered taboo to talk about in America because we are Isreal's biggest cheerleaders, but the fact is that Isreal was created by the British as one of their last colonial outposts--why is it okay for people of European descernt to go into a country filled with people of color and to unceremoniously take their land and make them refugees? and we think this is okay? It was done all over the world by the European countries to Asia, Africa, the middleastern nations which have all risen up and taken back their power. It's not going to be any different in Isreal. You will not have peace as long as you are oppressing people. We can spend all the money we want and justify the violence and the killing and the building of settlements and the apartheid like treatment of people of color, but until we get serious about justice for everyone, and both sides stop playing the victim card, there will be no solution. You can't bomb these people into oblivion. This is at the root of our problems with radical islam. This and the fact that we have been supporting autocratic middle eastern regimes that have been oppressing their own people so they aren't really worried about the Palestinians. The powder keg is rattling and it's going to blow soon. You can't keep oppressing people and not expect them to react.
