History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

Thinking about #israel and #palestine at war, it rhymes with the United States wars with American Indian Nations during the 19th century.

What we witnessed last week was by Hamas was the parallel of Custer's last stand. Israel has a claim to their land that fits well with the nationalist religious zeal that was Manifest Destiny.

I suspect that over the next generation Palestinians will like American Indian be pushed into ever smaller and poorer reservations with little true autonomy, and that in 4 generations good well meaning Israelis will be starting their lectures Wil an acknowledgement that the land the are on once belong to someone else and was taken by force, but not really ready to go beyond those words.