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"The attack came hours after a Palestinian carried out a drive-by shooting in the town, causing no injuries."
Welcome to war, if you start shooting at people, they're going to shoot back.
People act like it's all shocking that countries attack each other and take their land. It wasn't very long ago the world divided up parts of Germany after defeating them in multiple wars, or when China invaded and annexed Tibet, or even when a bunch of European countries invaded the Americas and took a good chunk of both continents.
People who support Palestinians setting up their own state, do you think the First Nations in North America would be justified in attacking the cities and people that now exist in order to set up their own countries? Don't try to tell me that reserves are the same thing, they aren't their own countries at all they still fall under US laws for almost everything. Plus the US courts keep trampling their rights anytime anything of value gets discovered/blocked by a treaty or reserve.
There is no obligation to reverse 300 year old actions, but we have an obligation to reverse a similar decision that happened less than a decade ago IMO. They just aren't comparable events in the event of acting on it now.
I don't think time is the important factor. If the U.S. today was the same U.S. 300 years ago, then we would 100% have a moral obligation to shut that shit down.
Now there is a diverse population, a culturally rich melting pot. However the U.S. is still plagued with racists/bigots, problematic entities, and a corrupt government.
Anyone who believes in any sort of racial supremacy, born in the US or not, should get kicked the fuck out.
Any problematic entities, such as oil companies ruining this land, should be dealt with. If Native Americans start biting back because their way of life is getting fucked especially, then they have my full support.
U.S. government is rife with corruption which spreads through many sectors ranging from health care to law enforcement. If Native Americans somehow overthrew the current government and replaced it with something more democratic, representative, or something just better, people would not have a logical reason to complain.
TL;DR
Time is irrelevant. The U.S. is no longer full of cunts, but the ones that do exist should GTFO.
I totally disagree with the premise time is irrelevant, but I agree with you that time doesn't entirely dissolve sentiment, there are still idiots flying Confederate battle flags.