Little Hawk asks, "How would any part of the world react to the abrupt arrival of a distinctly different cultural group from many places far afield, the carving out of an area of land for that group by terrorism and warfare at the expense of the local people, and the maintenance of that group as a new military and political power in the region???" As a Latino in general and as a native-born Cuban in particular, I can appreciate the question. Certainly we know how the Arawak peoples responded to Spanish colonization, and we also know what the consequences of that response were. However, out of the Resistance and the Conquest, and also out of the African enslavement and eventual Emancipation, emerged the Latin American culture that the world recognizes and honors as a wonderful amalgamation of the Native American, the Iberian, the West African. Maybe the day will come when, whatever the outcome of the current Israel-Palestine conflict, a new and beautiful society will develop which no one would have anticipated. On the other hand, it took several centuries of slaughter and oppression us Latin Americans for that to happen.