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To: chalu2 who wrote (2691)	8/12/2001 2:55:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Chalu, let me ask you a question (this is sincere, not a trick question) There is no Arapaho State, but there is nation, right? Do you consider yourself an Arapaho, American or Indian-American? and what does it mean to you? Thank you

To: chalu2 who wrote (2691)	8/12/2001 3:44:33 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

That is an excellent analogy. The 1948 ouster of 700,000 of the 1.2 million Palestinians from their homes was very much like the Trail of Tears. <<< One reason we study history is to learn from past mistakes. When we examine the tragic plight of Native Americans in this country, we regret the actions of our predecessors. Similarly, we cringe at the number of innocent Jews that were killed in the Holocaust. Does the uprooting of indigenous people still occur today? Unfortunately, yes. And sometimes our own government condones it. Such is the case in the country of Israel - historically known as Palestine. Much like the Native American struggle, millions of Palestinian people have been expelled from their homeland since the founding of Israel in 1948. Those who choose to remain are shoveled off into small regions, struggling to maintain their right of existence under harsh living conditions and government-sanctioned racism. >>> web.utk.edu Tom

To: chalu2 who wrote (2691)	8/12/2001 5:08:54 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

This article summarizes the Israeli expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian population, their own version of the Trail of Tears: jeffsarchive.com <<< In the territories thus coming under Israeli rule and occupation lived some 900,000 Palestinian Arabs. They inhabited approximately 500 villages as well as all major cities: Tiberias, Safad, Nazareth, Shafa 'Amr, Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Lydda, Ramleh, Jerusalem, Majdal (Ashqelon), Isdud (Ashdod), and Beer Sheba. Of these people, only some 150,000 remained under Israeli rule inside Israeli armistice boundaries (the 'Green line'). The majority of the Palestinian Arab population either fled during the hostilities, or was forcibly expelled by the Israeli army and has never been permitted by Israel to return; nor has Israel ever acknowledged the right of these people to return. Having expelled the majority of the people, the Israeli authorities then pursued the systematic destruction of their homes. Of the 500 or so Palestinian Arab villages, some 400 (385 according to the list compiled by the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights; below) were razed to the ground by the Israeli army during the 1948-9 war and throughout the 1950s. As noted above, the state of Israel has consistently denied the right of return to the erstwhile Palestinian Arab inhabitants of the land, and violated UN General Assembly resolutions recognizing their right to return and calling for their repatriation. In fact, all 1948 Palestinian Arab displaced persons and refugees were subsequently legislated as 'absentees' through the Absentee Property Law (1950). Thus, they were alienated from all rights to Israeli citizenship, to their lands, and to their properties in Israel. The enormity of this nation-wide, systematic practice of war crimes is indicated in the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights' list of destroyed Palestinian Arab villages. The list refers to Arab villages destroyed in pre-1967 Israel alone. >>> jeffsarchive.com