Sage, are you really oppressed? You cannot claim victimhood simply because your ancestors were oppressed. No one is force-relocating indians today, or killing off the food supply. See any "no Indian's welcome" signs? Anyone lynching you? Can white people even tell you are native american? My half brother and sister (different father) are half indian and look totally white. Most indians I have seen cannot be distuished by white people between mongolians or mexicans.
And by the way, the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel are treated way more justly than Palestinians in any other Arab state (including freedom of expression, right to vote, etc). If you look at polls of opinion in Israeli and in Arab countries, Jews say that coexistence in a two state solution is possibly, Arabs by and large reject it and have been rejecting it since 1948.
Pew Survey said:
More broadly, the postwar survey asked people their views on the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. By wide margins, most Muslim populations doubt that a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist so that the rights and needs of the Palestinian people are met. Eight-in-ten residents of the Palestinian Authority express this opinion. But Arabs in Israel, who voice the same criticisms of U.S. policy in the Middle East as do other Muslims, generally believe that a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist so that Palestinian rights and needs are addressed. In fact, Arabs in Israel are nearly as likely as Jews to hold that opinion (62% of Arabs, 68% of Jews).
Outside of the Muslim world, there is general agreement that there is a way to ensure Israel's existence and meet the needs of Palestinians. This view is widely shared in North America and Western Europe.
Fact is, Jews were there, like Native Americans, before the Arabs. Jews returning to Israel is like native americans reclaiming part of the US and wanting to have their own sovereign state within it. Arabs colonized the area after 600 AD. (of course, the area was conquered many times before that by egyptians, assyrians, greeks, jews, etc)
I support the two state solution, but let's be frank. The jews live on a miniscule plot of land in a huge ocean of arabs. Most of Jordan was part of Palestine, and if the Arabs in 1948 had chosen co-existence and allowed the Jews to have this tiny portion of land in all of the middle east for themselves, and if they had taken care of war refugees properly, alot of this problem wouldn't exist.
It is in fact, the rejectionism of the Arabs over the last 50 years, and their inability to help Palestinian refugees at all that contributed greatly to the current problem. You say Israeli is the one unwilling to accept a compromise. I say it is the Arab league.
Don't forget, up until Anwar Sadat visited Israeli, it was the stated mission of Arab League states to eradicate Israel off the map and push "jews into the sea"
And I just dare you to pick up an Arab textbook and look at its description of Jews vs Jewish descriptions of Arabs and see which is more realistic and friendly.
p.s. the viet cong never voted for communism. They had no vote of any kind. And if they desired anything at the beginning, it was simply independence, a nationalist movement. Peasants weren't exactly demanding to be collectivized into farms. The only reason they were on the Soviet side was the assistance of the US into the indo-china war with France gave them no alternative but to run to another superpower for help. If FDR had heard Ho Chi Minh's plea and instead supported independence against French wishes, Vietnam would have been a much more mellow place.
