In America, where I am a citizen, I don't worry that an Algonquin is going to come down the street and knife me. The Algonquin no doubt believe that the land I live on belongs to them, but they don't believe they are going to be able to reconquer or take back America from the descendants of the Europeans who, hundreds of years before my ancestors arrived on these shores, came and thru a combination of disease and genocidal threats, and genocide itself, took over the land that used to belong to their ancestors.
It is physically greater to be an American than almost anything else. Gas costs $1.60 per gallon, thanks to the lousy investments made by someone to pay for the technology to extract the oil from the ground. My wife bought new skirts for my girls for less than $3.00 per skirt. I wonder how the person who sewed the skirt together is living. A morally pure person would play the victim, never the oppressor. But who in America or the "west" really doesn't benefit from the way the world is arranged. Also, I know if the show was on the other foot, the other would be the oppressor.
Its so rich when American Jews criticize Israel and accuse Israel of genocide. Israel's problem is that it is completely unwilling to even create a credible threat against the Palestinians. Instead, to maintain security, they maintain a network of Palestinian informers and Jewish secret police. Its either that or throwing themselves on the mercy of the Palestinians, in the hope that a democratic bi-national state doesn't result in their expulsion or death. As long as the Palestinians believe they are going to win, there is no reason to believe there is going to be a two-state solution, or any good solution (from the Jewish point of view) to the conflict.
