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Originally Posted by Sliver
But that would be ridiculous. Tsuut'ina have all the rights and freedoms you and I have, PLUS they have additional land on which we're not welcome. Additionally, we are going way out of our way to atone for the mistakes of our great great grandparents (honestly, it's above and beyond on our part).
If we boxed them into a crappy section of land, were stealing their homes today (not hundreds of years ago) and fencing them off from freedom I would expect them to lash out whenever and however they could. We don't treat first nations people as sub-human and we work hard to continually understand their issues, improve relations, understand their perspective and right past wrongs. Israelis have literally the opposite approach with Palestinians. They are the hugest a-holes ever to the Palestinians.
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The only difference between what we did to the Tsuut'ina and what Israel are doing to Gaza is time and abject surrender, we did take all the good land, we did box them into a tiny crappy bit of land we didnt see any value in, we took away all of their rights, we stole their children, for most of Canada's history our natives had no rights to vote, to own property, we did everything and more Israel does, we even destroyed native culture and language, banned their religion.
The difference? we did it so brutally and completely that our natives surrendered utterly and so eventually
From THE 1970'S OR SO we finally decided to be nice to them, this is Palestine's sadly inevitable future, and to be clear it is sad and also inevitable, in time they will give up and 50 or 100 years after that Israeli's will trust that surrender and start to treat Palestinians the way treat our natives, giving them rights and feeling a bit guilty but still keeping all of the wealth we stole from them, in a hundred years time when you attend a soccer game in Tel Aviv they may also repeat 'we give thanks to the Palestinian peoples who unseeded territory this game is played on'