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.

Wow. Someone in America has finally said it. Someone has finally spoken the truth about Israel. Someone has the courage and moral strength to say what needs to be said.

And that "someone" is Mr. Gary Kamiya. Mr. Kamiya and his brutally honest, heartfelt essay on the Plight of the Palestinians and Israeli Terror, are EXACTLY what millions of Americans, including myself, have been thinking and feeling about this horrible conflict.

There will, of course, be apologists for Israel's terrorism, occupation, apartheid and land seizures, but that is inevitable when dealing with fanatics.

Their ignorance has no bearing on the facts: the truth has been spoken, and spoken well.

Thank you, Mr. Kamiya, for your exceptional, brave, and honest article. Let us hope that other American commentators find the courage to speak this truth as well.

Human lives hang in the balance.

While I understand the reasons for trying to analogize the Israeli-Palestinian situation with a hypothetical clash between the United States and Native Americans, Mr. Kamiya's hypothesis is entirely faulty. A more accurate analogy follows.

First, from the beginning, Europeans (herafter US people) would have been in (and been native to) the land that became the United States along with the other "Native Americans". After the US people successfully developed the land and built up industry, others would have poured in from Canada and Mexico and then called themselves Native Americans. Centuries later, numerous additional US people would have come to the land legally, bought up land, and lived with the Native Americans. A decision would then be made by the UN to divide up the land. All the land East of the Mississippi would be made into a Native American state (akin to modern day Jordan, which was cut from Palestinian land). The US people would not be allowed to live anywhere East of the Mississippi and a migration of US people West would take place.

Next, the UN would decide to split the remaining land into land for the US people and the Native Americans. The approximate portion of the land given to the US people would be only 1/3 or so of the remaining land. The US people accept this partition and want to live in peace with the Native Americans. The Native Americans do not. All US people living in Canada, Mexico and the rest of the Americas are kicked out, forced to flee to the United States (made up of little more than California, Nevada and Arizona) without any compensation. The fact that these refugees (similar in number to the displaced Native Americans when the United Stated was created) were absorbed by the United States without compensation would be conveniently ignored.

Immediately, the Native Americans, Canada, Mexico and the rest of the Americas would war against the US people and promise to kill them all and drive them to the sea. Miraculously, the United States would survive. Mexico would take control of New Mexico and maintain Native Americans as pawns in refugee camps. Canada would control Montana, Idaho, Washigton, Oregon and everything else west of the Mississippi and treat the Native Americans the same way. Neither Mexico nor Canada would care to establish an independent Native American state.

Twenty years later, Canada, Mexico and the rest of the Americas would cut off all US shipping through the Panama Canal, threaten to attack the rump state of the United States again, promise to drive the US people into the sea, and mobilize forces to do so. The Native Americans would join in. The US people launch a preemptive attack and win again, having wrestled territory from Canada and Mexico in a war forced upon them.

Only 5 years later, the US people would be attacked again on Thanksgiving. After initial setbacks, they would win again.

Hoping to establish peace, the US people would remove themselves entirely from Arizona. In response, continuing to refuse to recognize the United States, the Native Americans in Arizona would promise to destroy the country, refuse to negotiate, and continously launch missiles into southern California. Having no choice, the US attacks Arizona to stop the missiles.

This is the true analogy. Mr. Kamiya's attempt at an anaolgy is paltry and unfairly simplistic in comparison.

From reading her posts, obfuscating Zionist propagandist Amy MD LOVES playing The Game. And just what is The Game?

Mealy-mouthed half-truths are The Game!

The most recent version of The Game:

A Zionist posts the usual half-truth justifications for all things Israel. In this version of The Game, the half truth of choice is "Israel is responding to Hamas' rockets", while completely failing to mention the blockade of Gaza.

Objective readers see this omission and call the Zionist out on its half-truth. "Hey, what about the blockade?" The Game is now in motion.

The Zionist then states more half truths and obfuscations, usually along the lines of "look over here, at Egypt" or "Look over here, at the Native Americans!" or whatever, and the objective reader goes back and forth with the Zionist. The post count ratchets up, but nothing new gets discussed. The Game goes on and on.

The Game can be seen in action on pretty much every thread regarding Israel. My contention is that mealy-mouthed half truths are listed on purpose, as a strategy, in order to draw people into The Game and distract from any real discussion. The Zionist likes playing The Game, and is used to it. It knows that what it is saying is a half truth, and wouldn't have it any other way.

Naturally, the common people don't want war;*** ***That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

-Hermann Göring, Nazi Scumbag