... lives of their children, to find a patriotic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews..."1 Priest and social-justice researcher John Mulhall has pointed out "it [has been] year-in-year-out [that] American diplomacy and billions in American loans and/or outright grants voted for annually by Americans' representatives in Congress that were sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."2 With this accepted, clearly every American, rightly or wrongly, willingly or not, simply by his or her citizenship, was and is involved with the conflict. In order to truly understand and evaluate their country's role, Americans should first gain a historical setting and context to accurately understand the issue. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over the historic area of Palestine. Throughout history, many peoples have been conquered and displaced from this area. Among the displaced people are the Jewish people, who were moved out of the area in 135 AD when they were ...

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