But in the US the genocide was largely carried out by random people shooting folks for fun from their train wagons, in Israel it’s carried out by the professionally organized army of an allegedly democratic nation. Very different.
Even when the US army was directly involved (no small degree, especially if you don’t accept Native American warriors as military targets), its actions were not driven by Democratic institutions. Sure, people voted for leaders who supported genocide, but the genocide was not the direct result of democratic institutions malfunctioning. In Israel it is.
Natives were excluded from the political system, just like they are in Israel.
Natives were seen as savage threats to colonists. In Israel, Palestinians are seen as terroristic threats to settlers.
They’re very similar and the main differences are eras, technology, and geography.
America is a lot larger and at the time the surveillance and military technology didn’t exist to round every native up and put them in an open air prison. Where there were large communities of native Americans living in organized settlements, the government ran largely the same playbook Israel does today: move them from preferred areas to areas nobody wanted, put them in camps when camps existed, go to war with them directly, etc.
But in the US the genocide was largely carried out by random people shooting folks for fun from their train wagons, in Israel it’s carried out by the professionally organized army of an allegedly democratic nation. Very different.
Even when the US army was directly involved (no small degree, especially if you don’t accept Native American warriors as military targets), its actions were not driven by Democratic institutions. Sure, people voted for leaders who supported genocide, but the genocide was not the direct result of democratic institutions malfunctioning. In Israel it is.
Natives were excluded from the political system, just like they are in Israel.
Natives were seen as savage threats to colonists. In Israel, Palestinians are seen as terroristic threats to settlers.
They’re very similar and the main differences are eras, technology, and geography.
America is a lot larger and at the time the surveillance and military technology didn’t exist to round every native up and put them in an open air prison. Where there were large communities of native Americans living in organized settlements, the government ran largely the same playbook Israel does today: move them from preferred areas to areas nobody wanted, put them in camps when camps existed, go to war with them directly, etc.