You oppose the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

You see it as political, heavy-handed, and a superpower flexing its influence to reshape geography for its own purposes. And to be fair, there’s a reasonable argument there.

After all, the Gulf borders more Mexican coastline than American – roughly 49% compared to about 46% for the United States. The name “Gulf of Mexico” didn’t appear overnight. It reflects history, usage, and geography over time.

So the objection isn’t absurd. But here’s where things get… complicated.

Because many of the same voices rejecting that renaming are also the loudest in another arena – chanting “Free Palestine,” embracing the term as both identity and history, and in some cases going even further… questioning, or outright rejecting, the Jewish connection to the very land from which that name ultimately emerged.

And that’s where the inconsistency begins.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire – arguably the dominant global power of its time – crushed a Jewish revolt in the land known as........

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