re: #7 Buck

Ahh the great avoid…

Maybe. And if they want to buy it back, they are certainly welcome to. If the Sioux people want to raise money, and start buying land… there is nothing on earth that will stop them.

Are the Sioux people the Jews in your example, or the Palestinians? If they are the Jews, then who stole the land from the Jews? Are they the Palestinians?

They are neither. I have just given you an example of the uselessness of arguments from ancient claims. I had a similar discussion with my department head, a Pawnee. The answer is simple: The land, all land, belongs to him who can hold it.