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Birth of a nation — Photography exhibit displays Israel's 60 years of history

When will Americans be honest about this?

It seems so arrogant today. We weren't the first people living here. There were Native Americans here with families and communities before we got off the boat. America was these cultures promised land.

No person here would give up their homes if Native Americans believed, in their religion, that they were returning to their promised land.

Israel gets a pass. They leave for centuries other people establish lives on the lands the Jews left and Jews arrogantly think they can move people out of their houses without causing wars. This act was wrong but over looked by the world because it was better to have Jews go to Israel than to have them move in next door.

America, fearing a vast influx of Jews from Europe, was the first nation to recognize Israel. We wasn't noble. It was antisemitic feeling in America that wanted to dump this problem on Arabs, children of a lessor god. We have been paying for our sin of inhospitably since.

The founding of Israel was an incredible event. For 2000 years a people who had dreamed and prayed for "next year in Jerusalem" say that come to pass. I was eight at the time but I can remember the event.

In 1841 Apostle Orson Hyde, having been directed to do so by the Prophet Joseph Smith, dedicated the land for the return of the Jews.

Our loyalty to Israel has hurt our standing in world affairs. We should be more neutral on the subject. Who gave them the right to reinvade and claim it as their own? America should rethink its Israeli position. Unfortunately the Jewish lobby is so strong in Washington that no politician could survive without their support.