Saturday, April 28, 2007
puritans and hebrews. michelle slosser
I think the comparison Gatta makes between the Puritans who came to New England and the Hebrews who left Egypt and wandered the Sinai desert is very interesting. The Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, then they escaped and wandered in the desert for 40 years until they were shown Canaan, which they took by force and destroyed the Canaanites. The Puritans, or the Europeans really, who came to North American, also took it by force and all but destroyed the Native Americans who were indigenous to the land. Now I do not claim to know much history on the subject, but I cant help but think about the Jews that created the State of Israel in 1948, once again taking a land by force that was previously occupied by the Palestinians, as I understand it. It is so sad to me that the Native Americans could not fight back as hard against the Europeans as the Palestinians have fought against the Jews. But then again, it is even more sad that any one is fighting over land, so violently, and not coming to rational humane agreements about things. But who am I to talk, I guess. The Canaanites, the Native Americans, the Palestinians, all "bad guys" to a white christian american, who I also can claim to be. So how can I blindly support the Hebrews conquering of Canaan and not the European conquering of the Native Americans? My journals are mostly questions, there is so much I do not know.
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