From Haaretz: Fact check, Trump did not actually offer the Palestinians a state
The “Deal Of the Century” is nothing more than a declaration of surrender. Surrender what little sovereignty you have and any agency to act on your own behalf. Allow us to herd you into reservations you don’t control and have very limited autonomy over. This is not a Palestinian state. We’ve seen this before.
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The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
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The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions.
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Over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native American Indians and sold to non-natives.
