Native Indian Genocide: Parallels in Palestine

[walksalone11]

Native Indian Genocide: Parallels in Palestine
By Yuram Abdullah Weiler
Palestine Chronicle
"One of the greatest crimes against humanity occurred right here in the United States of America. Support for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People is a start to right this great wrong," declared the American Indian Movement in a press release on 24 September 2009.
Perhaps my natural sense of outrage and revulsion at the injustices and atrocities inflicted upon indigenous peoples by the U.S., Zionists and other colonizing powers is inherited from my mother. Before she died, she told me that ancestors on her father’s side of the family traced their roots back to the Iroquois nation.
The United States of America, of course, voted against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only a country that denies the rights of its own Native Indians could object to the right of self-determination for other indigenous peoples.
Likewise, only a country that had itself executed genocide on its own native peoples on a massive scale could be such an ardent supporter of the Zionist regime, which is currently engaged in a native Palestinian genocide.
How massive was the Native Indian genocide committed by the Euroamerican colonizers? According to the late Professor Howard Zinn, of the 10 million Native Indians who lived north of present-day Mexico when Columbus arrived, less than a million remain. Other scholars put the indigenous population in 1492 as high as 18 million. Based on a nadir population of 250,000 around 1900, the American Indian holocaust perpetrated by Euroamerican colonizers claimed at least 9 million lives.
“That there was tragedy, deception, barbarity, and virtually every other vice known to man in the 300-year history of the expansion of the original 13 Colonies into a Nation which now embraces more than three million square miles and 50 States cannot be denied,” grudgingly conceded a U.S. Senate committee on Indian Affairs.
How did the U.S. colonizers usurp Native Indian lands? The pattern was already in place by 1713 with the Treaty of Utrecht, which established a “buffer” zone of Native Indian land between French and British colonial powers. Caught between the two, Native Indians defended their homes, families and lands with understandable ferocity against an invasion by Euroamerican colonizers who ignored the treaty and settled in the buffer zone. Characterizing Native Indian resistance as unprovoked attacks on peaceful settlers, the invaders demanded U.S. Army protection from the “uncivilized savages.”
Forced eviction, relocation and starvation were among the atrocities committed by the U.S. government to carry out its genocide. Native Indians were removed at gunpoint from their homes and forced to resettle on reservations whose total area was only a small fraction of their ancestral lands. Some Indian nations were deliberately divided, such as the Cheyenne and the Seminole, separating relatives and extended families from one another by great distances. The viscously cruel tactic of destroying food crops and slaughtering buffalo led to the starvation and near extinction of many American Indian nations.
And if forced eviction, relocation and starvation proved insufficient to break the Native Indian will to resist, then the U.S. Cavalry supplemented by settler militias were called in with Howitzers to execute a massacre. One such bloodbath occurred in November of 1864, when 700 militiamen, many of them drunk, surrounded and attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village at Sand Creek, Colorado. At the end of the one-sided battle, 200 Native Indians had been killed and mutilated, over half women and children.
Looking at the methods employed by the Zionist colonizers against Palestinians, one immediately sees parallels to those used by the U.S. government to exterminate Native Indian peoples. The same methods of massacres, forced eviction, relocation and starvation used to colonize native lands in the U.S. have been employed in Palestine.
In March of 1948, Zionist forces launched a systematic plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous population. Heavily armed Zionist militias seized control of numerous multiethnic cities such as Jaffa, Haifa Safat and Tiberias, and ruthlessly drove out native Palestinian inhabitants. Massacres took place in Deir Yasin, where 100 men women and children were killed, Tantura, where 200 men were murdered and in 368 other Palestinian villages and cities. By the winter of 1948, 90 percent of the native population--some 750,000 Palestinians--had been turned into refugees.
Ethnic cleansing continued and by 1952, Palestinians had been forcibly evicted from another 40 villages. Settlements were built on top of the rubble of the 370 villages destroyed in 1948 to obliterate all evidence of the former Palestinian residents. Not satisfied with the Palestinian territory it occupied, “Israel” attacked Egypt and Jordan in 1967, seizing Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza, creating another 275,000 Palestinian refugees.
Currently, “Israel” is tightening its grip on the Occupied West Bank aided by U.S. and E.U.-trained security forces, and is starving out Gazans, denying them desperately-needed food and medical supplies, with its ongoing blockade helped by Egypt’s new steel wall. Like the American Indians of the 18th century caught between French and British colonizers, Gazans today find themselves caught between the U.S.-supported Israeli-Zionist regime and the U.S.-controlled Egyptian dictatorship, while Palestinians in the West Bank are squeezed between U.S. “ally” Jordan and the apartheid wall.
Great Lakota Nation leader Russell Means, speaking to American Indian students in 1995, reminded them, “At Wounded Knee in 1973, we were surrounded by the armed might of the United States of America, the most militarily powerful country in the world, but we were free.” Similarly, Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank may be surrounded by the armed might of the U.S.-financed Zionists, but they too will be free.
“The white man knows that he is alien and he knows that North America is Indian,” observes Native American scholar Vine Deloria, Jr. Similarly, the Eurozionist colonizer knows that he is alien and that “Israel” is Palestinian.
Someday, Palestine will be free of Eurozionist colonizers, the Americas will be free of Euroamerican colonizers and indigenous people everywhere will be free to exercise their right of self-determination.
Someday, the United States, Britain, Israel, France and all who are complicit in colonizing lands belonging to Native American Indians, Palestinians and other indigenous peoples around the world will be held accountable for their crimes.
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[freepcmoney]

Well, what can I say about all of this. I am a white woman, I think. I do not know anything about my ancestoral heritage. I have white skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes. I have always loved indians.

I will say this. Yes it seems that what the white man did was wrong, BUTTT just maybe it was God's will. The reason I say this is that there are many instances in the Bible where God told his people to go and take over another land and destroy the inhabitants. In some instances it seemed like an impossibility, BUT God was on their side and they were successful.

The white man killed many of the indians, captured the africans, brought them here, put their *bleep* to work, AND BUILT THE MOST ADVANCED, WEALTHY AND POWERFUL NATION ON EARTH SINCE TIME BEGAN. Yes using the white man's brains and guidance and protection from God? Who?

[walksalone11]

You love NDNs yet the bible says kill them and so you are down with it?

Yet another example of why Christianity and its followers are so unacceptably dangerous.

I know you are supposed to be part of God's flock and all but DAMN, why do you think Creator gave you a brain?

[bschumacher]

You almost have to pity the Israelis....they are trying to do what the Europeans did to the American Indians, only times have changed and they are not getting away with it so easily. In 19th-century America, genocide and forced evictions were acceptable, even laudable, as long as they were practiced against people of other races. Now there's all this nonsense about human rights. All we can hope is that someday, Israel will realize that there will be no peace until it sheds its 19th century mindset.

[samiole32]

walksalone11 > This is a very good comparison you're absolutely right exceept in one thing in my opinion ofcourse, it's the Egyptian side of well I lived there and I know that for fact pepole are not with the government, and the government are not that bad, they have a very good system so they know about the tunnels and they know where it is exactly and they allowed it don't even think that they don't know where it is because they know everything, where do you think the weapons go to Gaza from Iran and Syria? there is only 3 locations where Gaza can get the weapons from 1- Israel (Which is impossible), 2- the Sea(Controlled by Israel so it is the same impossible) and 3- Egypt (The only possibile option), now we come for the system in Egypt they can't afford getting in direct trouble with Israel because of the budget wise (War expenses) they know for fact that if anything happened israel will get the USA & Europe support like what happened in 1973 and before, when they faced israel they beated them untill the air bridge happened from USA to support Israel in the war, the second thing Egypt has good army but it's a regular army  you can't depend on their loyalyty I mean 100% loyal for you (some of them they do it just for living not because they wanna be in the army) and from the experience you can't beat Israel army with a regular army because it'll be so easy to penetrate it you need an irregular army like what happened with Hezbullah and vitnam, pepole you trust they are 100% with you difficult to penetrate them easier in moving, light weapons make more loss for their enemy,
Another Good thing you said was <why do you think Creator gave you a brain?> I totally agree because the Creator as you all like to say but for me is God give human being the brain to think and know the difference between wrong and right and God gave human being the brain to guide them for GOD, if you use your brain you'll know that God is exist and if you used your brain you'll find out that God would never command you to kill and destroy what he creats, He would only command you to defend yourself, you family, your land and never be the starter for taking somebody's land or family
For me I don't beleive in white and black there is good white men and there is good black men too I beleive that God will never look to your color but look at your heart to know if you're good or bad.