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> Maybe morally it's an occupation, but if so then the USA is occupying Hawaii.

You realize that there's a non-negligible contingent of Hawaiians who absolutely believe this, too?

Yes that's why I brought it up. There's actually a substantially better argument for Hawaii because the USA just showed up and conquered the kingdom that was there. Whereas the Ottomans had Palestine for what, 500 years?

It's more complicated than that as the Palestinians are speaking the language of an earlier foreign colonizing empire that replaced another empire that ethnically cleansed the Jews and then colonized the area

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