In the Gilroy Dispatch (Calif.), Marty Cheeks compares Palestinian refugees to displaced Native Americans. You can imagine how he describes the Jews:
Following the Mexican-American War – a conflict started for the purposes of “Manifest Destiny” to expand American territory – the United States gained more than 50 percent of Mexico’s land holdings in 1848. Essentially through Manifest Destiny, God “justified” our land theft.
Under the Americans, California’s native Indian population was treated even worse than before. Many were hunted down and killed for bounty simply because they were Indians. In less than a century, their ancient way of life vanished.
Virtually the same tragic story happened to the Palestinians when the State of Israel came into existence in 1948. The Zionist movement was started by a Hungarian Jew named Theodor Herzl in 1897. He taught it was the manifest destiny of European Jews to take control of Palestine and turn it into a Jewish nation. Jews, he said, were God’s “chosen people” and “the Promised Land” was theirs by right.
Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler made a similar association:
