You must go through military checkpoints on a daily basis where soldiers can harass you or destroy your property with no compensation or even reprimand (reporters have witnessed Israeli soldiers casually destroying farmers' crops while laughing at them). ... Of course, it goes without saying that they would never do such a thing in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, no matter who they suspect of being there. However, if you're killed, whether it be at a checkpoint by a trigger-happy soldier or as "collateral damage" due to the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, yo...

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The Mexican War The first in a long line of US intervention in Latin American affairs began rather peacefully in 1821, when American Moses Austin obtained a land grant to establish a colony in sparsely populated Texas, then Mexican territory. When Moses died, his son Steven Austin took over the project, and brought over 2000 new immigrants, called empresarios, to settle in the colony. ... Before going to war, President Polk offered $32 million for California, New Mexico, and the territory between Texas and the Rio Grande. ...

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