...which leads me to understand you, too, will one day sell...
Anyway, the Navajo/Sioux/whatever Nation is "Nation" only in its own words.
They will never be acknowledged the right to print their own money, have their own Army, and print their own Passports.
They will never be acknowledged as a Nation with its own sovereign territory and its own sovereign legislative powers by the USA, not to mention the UN.
YOU (the USA) claim such right, to the point that (I have read) some Reservations were "invaded" by the IRS and other "tax-related LEOs" because of Casino regulations.
That is why I used the Palestine/ Navajo example.
However, you ARE correct when you say "as long as there's money to be made, the conflict will continue".
But you should read a little more history. In ancient times, defeated Populations were seldom deported or cleansed.
The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles are witness to this, there is no mention of "a Roman farmer ousting a local to seize his olive grove."
So why should the UK, the US defend Israel when the confiscate land after land piece and parcel from the Palestinians ?
Read books, not newspapers.
Palestinian terrorism is the reaction, not the cause.
And look up
LEHI,
STERN and
IRGUN on Wikipedia.
IRGUN The Irgun was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948... Irgun members were absorbed into the Israel Defense Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
The Irgun is also referred to as Etzel, an acronym of the Hebrew initials, or by the abbreviation IZL.
The Irgun policy was based on what was then called Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky.
"Every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state" Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin Massacre, carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948.
The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization or organization which carried out terrorist acts. In particular the Irgun was branded a terrorist organisation by Britain, the 1946 Zionist Congress and the Jewish Agency.
The Irgun believed that any means necessary to establish the Jewish State of Israel, including terrorism, was justifiable.
During the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine against the Mandatory Palestine, the militant Zionist group Irgun carried out 60 attacks against Palestinian Arabs and British soldiers. Irgun was described as a terrorist organization byThe New York Times, the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry, prominent world figures such as Winston Churchill and Jewish figures such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, and many others. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes it as "an underground organization." The New York Times at the time cited sources in an investigative piece which linked the Haganah paramilitary group to the Irgun terrorist attacks such as the King David Hotel bombing.
Irgun launched a series of attacks which lasted until the beginning of World War II. All told, Irgun attacks against Arab targets resulted in at least 250 Arab deaths during this period.
Following is a list of attacks resulting in death attributed to Irgun that took place during the 1930s. [omissis]
Irgun conducted at least 60 operations altogether during this period
The Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party.
Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.
LEHI (aka STERN) Lehi (Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈleχi]), commonly referred to in English as the Stern Gang, was a militant Zionist group founded by Avraham ("Yair") Stern in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Its avowed aim was forcibly evicting the British authorities from Palestine, allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish stateLehi initially sought alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, offering to fight alongside them against the British in return for the transfer of all Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine. On the belief that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis. During World War II it declared that it would establish a Jewish state based upon "nationalist and totalitarian principles".
After Stern's death in 1942, the new leadership of Lehi began to move it towards support of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. In 1944 Lehi officially declared its support for National Bolshevism.
Lehi and the Irgun were jointly responsible for the massacre in Deir Yassin. Lehi assassinated Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, and made many other attacks on the British in Palestine. On May 29, 1948, the government of Israel, having inducted its activists members into the Tzahal, formally disbanded Lehi, though some of its members carried out one more terrorist act, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte some months later, an act condemned by Bernadotte's replacement as mediator, Ralph Bunche. Israel granted a general amnesty to Lehi members on 14 February 1949. In 1980, Israel instituted a military decoration in "award for activity in the struggle for the establishment of Israel," the Lehi ribbon.
Former Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel in 1983....
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Now go on and tell me those poor Israelis are a poor, peace-loving lot.
THEY started it decades before WW2 - against the British and the Palestinians - Christian Palestinians too.
They murdered Christian civilians for political reasons.
I can in no way defend them today.