[The Toll]

I have had a hard question posed to me when defending Israel once myself. I was asked how I would react if Aztlan suddenly declared itself a state and claimed the right to defend itself. The person that I was speaking with used the line that "it is their original homeland as well".
Any ideas on how to deflect that one?

[Alouette]

if Aztlan suddenly declared itself a state and claimed the right to defend itself. The person that I was speaking with used the line that "it is their original homeland as well".

Yeah. "Palestine" was never a sovereign nation. The British created the Palestine Mandate out of a chunk of the former Ottoman empire and designated it as the "Jewish National Homeland." In 1923 they broke off a huge chunk of the designated Jewish Homeland and gave it to the Arabs for a "Palestinian Homeland" (aka Transjordan).

The Jews did not invade another sovereign nation to claim a homeland, they defended the remnant of land that was given to them by the League of Nations from Arabs who wanted to drive them into the sea.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Any ideas on how to deflect that one?"

That's easy. Aztlan is a myth created by socialist Latino student activists to excuse their attempt to conquer the US. Israel is an ancient place and was the home to Jews a century and a half before Islam even existed.

Michael Frazier