Also read 'Empire of the Summer Moon' recently. You're right that the settlers & Comanches could not coexist. Something similar happened all over the continent, but it Texas it was more clear-cut and overt.
Maybe that's why Texans today seem to be more up-front than most Americans about their feelings, good and bad. I've heard racism expressed more openly in Texas than in anywhere else in the country.

Israeli settlers do indeed feel that all of 'greater Israel' should be theirs. It would be interesting to see what would happen if/when a Palestinian State is established in the West Bank. My feeling is that Israel should recognize such a state, not try to claim or maintain any settlements, let the settlers either come back to the current Israel or simply become Jewish citizens of Palestine. If the IDF stopped supporting and protecting the settlers and if the Arabs establish a state, we'd see a lot of ex-settlers fleeing the West Bank - and, unfortunately, ratcheting up the right-wing rhetoric in Israel.

You are right: there is a great similarity between Israel and the early Texan attitude. Only an arrogant sense of entitlement could support such an approach to settlement. That arrogance automatically generates hatred of anything which gets in the way of settlement.

Rather reminds me of the arrogant sense of entitlement on the part of the Money Party, although they mask their fear and hatred of us common folks with a little more subtlety. Rather than kill us outright (and thus risk resistance) they leave us homeless, unemployed and lacking healthcare to twist slowly in the wind and die without soiling the hem of their robes with guilt.

Perfect logic on bad data yields bad results.
All data is questionable.
By making mistakes in logic, I stand some chance of being right.

Interesting point. Here's an FYI...the only treaty (ever) that was not broken was between the Comanche and the German settlers around Fredericksburg, Texas. There is a powwow each spring there in remembrance of that little heralded fact.
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I'm about half way through this book. My preconceived notion of the Comanches was totally wrong. Not sure the comparison is accurate as The Texans and Americans in general had a Manifest Destiny attitude that everything was theirs and they could keep expanding no matter what was in their way. In the middle east there are many deep rooted complex issues but it is more of the Palestinians and Israelis wanting to feel secure in some final arrangement.

It was Israel's staunch support of the apartheid South African government that first clued me in to the fact that it was about being a settler society.

All the smiting, raping, pillaging, slaving and so on is typical tribal retro behavior of the human species. It is the rear brain spinal chord making decisions without the benefit of prefrontal lobes.
For many, it is just doing God's work.
Been going on a long time. It gets purified slowly.
Sometimes, I think of Earth as the Galactic supermax.
It must be unsettling to the Normals out in the galaxy that the inmates may be on to faster than light phenomena.

The impossibility of "peaceful coexistence" between the Texans and the Comanches does indeed explain a lot of Texas history, but as "Empire of the Summer Moon" pointed out, both the Comanches and the Texans were recent interlopers from expansionist cultures in the territory. While the Israel could be considered (as they are by the Palestinians) as the last great colonial enterprise, the parallel with the Comanche-Texan situation isn't quite perfect. The Texans v. the Apaches is a better example (or the Comanches v the Apaches perhaps).

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