What do the True Americans have in Common with Palestinians?

God Given Right – Palestine and the Native American Indian

by Jeremy Greenberg

The state of Israel sits on land that was originally Palestinian but Zionist movements in Europe and the United States claimed that the "land was given to them by God" and their belief that their race possessed some "natural superiority".

Euro-Americas pray to "god and country" and teach their future generations to pray homage to the gangsters, outlaws and thieves who stole the country from Indian nations in gods name.

What do this two cultures have in common?

The European idea that they possessed a "God given superiority" not only had brought them into conflict with the Palestinian people, but also North American Indian Nations in the 1800s.

In contrast, Euro-Americans and Europeans began their westward expansion of North America under the banner of manifest destiny. A belief that they had a "divinely inspired mission" to expand. Euro-American expansion meant the thief and occupation of Native American Indian lands. A big part of William Henry Harrison´s responsibility, who as the Territorial Governor of Indiana, was to obtain title to American Indian lands so that white settlement could expand in the area, asked the Indiana legislature: "Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined, by the Creator, to give support to a large population, and to be the sea of civilization, of science, and true religion?" Isn’t this the Zionist attitude toward Palestine?

The United States continued the European practice of recognizing only limited land rights of Native American Indians who they regarded as "savages" who stood in the way of Euro-American expansion. The same mentality has prevailed with Israel people in their dealings with the Palestinian people.

In the time of Manifest Destiny, this idea was clear and simple, "Indian Removal". The "Indian wars" between Native Indian Nations and Euro-American armies, which are now well recorded, ended in more then 300 treaties that won some tribes large sections of land, but today these lands have all but melted away into the hands of Euro-Americans.

Euro-American’s believed that Native American Indians were "destined to melt and vanish before the advancing waves of Anglo-American power…" but the large land sessions won by the Tribes through treaty in fact allowed future generations to survive, even as their lands continued to be lost through one passage after another of Congressional Acts that swindled tribes out of millions of acres of land.

Today Native lands have become checker boarded with Euro-American ownership and continue to be subject to Congressional Acts to defraud Native people of even more land and the natural resources.

The Palestinian people continue to struggle through various groups like Hamas in self defense of their sovereignty and to keep their remaining lands. So too, has North American Indian people continued to struggle to keep what is left of their lands and recover stolen lands.

The Federal Government offers the Lakota Nations 100´s of millions for their sacred Black Hills, but the Lakota people have refused the federal paper dollars, firmly stating, "Our sacred land is not for sale!"

Of the numerous Native American Indian groups that have historically formed to confront the continued Euro-American intrusions into our lives and sovereign rights, the American Indian Movement (AIM) has become best known. Like the PLO, Hamas and other Palestinian liberation groups, we too were criminalized by the invaders and thieves who attempt to undermine our rights as a liberation group with aggression, violence and name calling. As with the Palestinians, we too will not be denied, through threats of violence, our right of self defense.

In Gaza this week, the Israeli Military is dropping phosphorus bombs on the civilian population and destorying infrastruture of the people of Gaza.  These are the same people that came from towns pre-1948 in what is now called Israel. They are now caged in and can’t go anywhere.  It’s like the Planet of Apes when Charlton Heston was caged in and beaten by Apes who were now in control……it’s weird isn’t it? 

Okay, so now what?  What’s next for these Palestinians.

Well, besides getting their own casinos 150 years from now, the Palestinians can expect to be launched into the annuals of extinction just like the Native American Indians; massacred, beaten, and assimilated. This is the future for Palestinians.  The extermination is happening now, over time!

Is it right?  Just?  I don’t think so.  History is all about competition and destruction. We are Americans, well, at least that’s what we call ourselves after we massacred the peoples that lived on this land that we now call our home.  It was there home and now it’s ours.  Too bad!

It was Palestine and now it’s not…….and Israel has our full backing by our Congress and by proxy, our taxpayers.  It’s ours.  We own this genocide and this immoral adventure. And so what?

United States history attests to the genocide of North American Indians and most educated Euro Americans and Europeans would agree that a genocide has been committed on this continent in the name of God and riches and so what?  Sucks to be weak and beaten!  Israel has the guns, Palestinians have their rights?  Who will be the victors and who will go extinct?  Bet on the guy with nuclear bomb!