Is it okay to claim a land?

Imagine this scenario:

Native Americans get united and manage to get military and economic support from 170 countries. All because they want to reclaim Manhattan 'because we once lived there so that land is rightfully ours!'

The United Native People of America (the - for now -  fictional UNPA) gives the people of Manhatten a few choices. Just because they're being nice:

-You can keep 42nd Street but it will be under our control and we take all profits and taxes

and the rest of you may become citizens of Canada. If Canada agrees or not is not our problem.

-You all become second rate citizens of the newly formed United Land of Native Americans (ULNA)

and everything you own, including your time and labour becomes our property.

-You die.

There's a bit more to it but generally speaking:

if you would support the Native Americans in this scenario, you would act the same as people nowedays - and in real life - support Israel.

'Yes, but the European colonists didn't steal the natives land unfairly!' is not really the best defense of the Israeli tactics. Nor is: 'If the Palestinians were serious about keeping the land they live on, they should have fought harder!'

Interestingly enough there are people who state that the people of Palestine are not forced from their homes and olive orchards (click). Aha! I guess they are simply asked nicely to run away from bulldozers, guns and bombs.

Now imagine this land being Manhattan. The green bits are the land where people have lived for several generations. The white bit is the part that Native Americans are progressively reclaiming 'because our ancestors lived there!'

Is it okay to reclaim a piece of land 'because our ancestors once lived there'

and in the process kill people who have lived there for generations?

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