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• Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:25 AM

  Amy, MD

  You are a doctor, which means that you are educated and should have some ability to see two sides of an argument. You do not. Comparing Gaza to current Native American reservations in the US is just plain stupid. The US does not blockade reservations. We do not prevent inhabitants from traveling in and out. We do not set up check points that prevent Native Americans from leaving their homes. We do not cut-off food and electricity. We do not prevent Native Americans from holding jobs, going to school, or otherwise leaving reservations. We provide vast amounts of funding to Native American tribes, and we allow tribes to administer their own lands. Native Americans are free to leave or stay; they can work and live anywhere in the nation. Anti-discrimination laws prohibit discrimination against Native American people in every aspect of life.

  One of my best friends in college (my freshman roommate) at an "elite" University grew up on the Hopi reservation. She and her family were free to live anywhere in the nation that they chose, work anywhere, vote, etc. The government and the university paid for her undergraduate and law school education at one of the nation's best law schools. She elected to return to the Hopi reservation to improve the lives of the Hopi people. How you could possibly compare the US's current policy toward Native Americans and Israel's current treatment of Gaza is simply inexplicable and shows your inability to see the situation with any degree of objectivity or rationality.

  —luckycat Read luckycat's other letters
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