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In reply to the discussion: US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations [View all]Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)for returning all lands ever seized by an invading force?
Do we Homo Sapiens have to return Europe to the Neanderthals?
Should the descendants of the Aztecs have to return the land they hold to the descendants of the tribes they decimated when they conquered their vast territories?
I didn't conquer anything from anybody, and nobody alive today had their land taken from them. That's called history. Populations get conquered and displaced by invading forces, and this has been going on since the dawn of time. More recently, does this mean that Israel must give back the land to the Palestinians? And England needs to give back Scotland and Ireland. Oh, and France and Spain both need to return the Basque lands to their proper owners.
And to which tribe should return the land? The one that held it when we stole it, or the one that held it before that tribe stole it? Or the tribe before that? Or the tribe before that?