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I've been puzzling over your demand that any American who criticizes Israel be willing to give their land to a Native American, or else be deemed a shameless hypocrite. Virtually no American seriously believes that there is a possibility that Israelis are going to vacate all their land and hand it back to the Palestinians, or would believe this a just solution at this point (this being the equivalent of your suggestion that fair-minded Americans give their property up to the Native Americans). Since no one is actually calling for the Israelis to do the equivalent, your argument is nothing more than a red herring meant to distract us from what is actually happening in Gaza at this moment. People like myself who criticize Israel's latest attack on a people it has systematically blockaded, starved, and kept in permanent refugee status for three generations are not asking Israel to dismantle itself and send its Jewish citizens back to wherever they or their relatives came from. We are asking that Israel seriously seek to find a just, workable solution for everyone.
