Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

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180. So is the Upper Plains to the Sioux nation. Does all of ND, SD, MT, IA and MI belong to them?

Most people wouldn't draw that conclusion. The difference is the policy of the United States as expressed through Harry Truman's decision to cast the deciding vote in the United Nations recognizing the State of Israel in 1948. The other is the hundreds of nuclear weapons stockpiled by Israel, itself, since 1967.

For both reasons, Israel isn't going away. But, to question the expansion of Israel beyond the 1948 borders is no more anti-semitic than it is anti-Lakota to say that the long historical residence of Native Americans does not, in itself, give the Five Tribes title to seize all the real estate across five U.S. States and the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Provinces in Canada.

Indigenous people become displaced people all over the world. Only a few have been fortunate enough to return.