the palestinians just want less than 20 percent of the total land, why is that so hard for the isrealies to give up. lets split jerusalem equally let isreal get outta the west bank and gaza completely, totally demolish settlements. and leave..wat do you guys think?
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Don't get me started on this subject. I believe and some historians agree that the only true originals of that area of the world is the Palestinians every Jew is not genetically connect to the original people only religously.\nNotice most of the Jews that came back to "take back their land" came there from European countries. I have no problems with Jews at all but the facts are most Jews of wealth and knowledge were taken away by the Romans in the \ndays of Roman rule  inter-bred wth  the local people and convert some to Judaism.This is over 2000 years!\n The ones that stayed were invaded by others and eventually became Islamic and called themselves Palestinian.\nThe only reason the major countries of the world support Israel is because the Jews control the banking industry of the world.They got the money! I told you not to get me started.
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I'm an American and I don't love Isreal or Jews, so please don't generalize and lump us all together. As for giving them part of the US, there are already more Jews in America than there are in Isreal. That is the reason the US seems so pro-Isreal, the Jewish population controls a lot of money in this country which influences politics. Just because I'm an American doesn't mean I agree with this, or my government's foreign policy concerning Isreal. If you have a problem with America, aim your anger at the government, not the people. Contraying to popular belief, both here and abroad, the American people play quite a small role in the government, particularly since many do not vote.
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This is a very good question and plummets to the heart of the matter. \n\nStates have borders. Israel's borders are in dispute. There have been numerous UN Resolutions calling for Israel to release the lands it has seized illegally. These resolutions haven't been enforced!\nThe Economist magazine recently had an excellent map of the lands Israel has illegally occupied since the 1967 War. It's astonishing Israel is getting away with stealing soooo much land.\n\nRemember, all Saddam Hussein tried to do was get Iraqi land (namely, Kuwait) back that was taken by imperial British map-makers (who had a new fleet of oil-powered ships that needed cheap oil).\n\nHypocrisy run amok in foreign policy is what it is. I think that's a reason why the terrorists are angry.
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There's no peaceful ways in solving the Zoinists-Palestine conflict. The Jewish PM Olmert is coming here in US this Sunday to discuss his unilateral moves in order to draw 'the final border'. They even going to expand W. Bank settlments. \n\nhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961384054&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\n\nThere will be more blood and war between the Arabs and the Jewish. As much as you love your country, it's best if you leave and migrate to somewhere else. You said that you're a Christian. What you can do is move to Bethlehem. The area is governed by a Christian mayor. That's the best. I'll pray for your country.
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First I'm inclined to think it was a mistake, but the purpose for the withdraw or giving of land to the Palestinian people was to try and work towards a peace.  Israel was to give up this strip of land and remove its settlers from it, and the Palestinians we're to reign in the terrorist who constantly bomb the Israelis.  We'll see if it works. I don't think it will.
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I think the message should be that the Palestinian people believe with every fiber of their being that they are entitled to that land and that there will not be a resolution to this that both sides find agreeable.\n    These people are willing to give their lives in the hopes that one day their children will have a land to call their own. They are willing to give up their lives for this cause, once someone is willing to do that, there is little you can do to stop it. They will continue doing this until the end of time or they are given back their land.
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Turn the Israeli army loose, no holds barred, no politics, screw the UN, and there would be no more palestinian problem. That's my solution.\nBTW, there was never a country of "Palestine". It was just a name for the region. It's kind of like saying there should be a new country named "Outback" in Australia. "Palestine" is a made-up cause, promoted by islamists in order to justify terrorism.
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Dear derekmleiniger,\n\nYour analogy is totally wrong. Unlike English and other establishers of USA, Israelis started to kill the Palestinians grabbing their land and not ready to give any rights to them. The only reason that Palestinians are facing hard time is that they don't have any port and can't do business activities independently. \n\nWhile only reason Israelis look flourishing is the aid sent by the oversees Jews as well as hefty amount of $ 3 billion from US only.\n\nFollowing is an account of Israel's leaders, you can find it very different compares to people who came to US:\n\n\n\n"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."\n-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.   From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.\n\n"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"\n-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.\n\n"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."\n-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.\n\n \nDavid Ben Gurion\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1949 - 1954,\n1955 - 1963\n\n  \n"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."\n-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.\n  \nBenjamin Netanyahu\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1996 - 1999\n"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... \n-- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000\n\n"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."\n-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000. \n\n"I would have joined a terrorist organization."\n-- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.\n \n \nEhud Barak\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1999 - 2001\n  \n"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.\n\n"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. \n\n"Israel may have the right to put others on trial,
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It is not fair.  \n\nFurthermore, it is stupid to have Israel planted in the heart of the muslim world, why not in Western Europe where they lived before.  The Jews didn't care they almost went to Africa for thier holy land, and they were turned away by America... It is all US interventions that is causing the holocaust taking place right now against the Palestinians and we should all do our best to stop it.
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Some fringe political group called "Peace Now" says this and you treat it as the gospel?  \n\nIt doesn't bother you that Israel turned over Gaza to the Palastineans, and were planning to do so with the West Bank, and in return the Palastineans shot rockets out of Gaza and launched raids?  It doesn't bother you that in return they elected Hamas, a terrorist organization whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel, as their government?  \n\nIsrael gave peace a chance.  They pulled all their own people out of Gaza and made them leave their homes and businesses, and gave it to the Palastineans with the goal of living side-by-side in peace.  This came at enormous political cost and turmoil for the Israelis.  And in return the Palastineans effectively spit in their face.  The Palastineans have made it crystal clear they have no interest in living in peace with Israel, so if I were Israel, I'd build a DMZ like in Korea, complete with land mines and gun emplacements, and seal off Israel from the Palastinean areas.
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palestine should be palestine cuz thats wat it is. isrealis think they should take it by having war...not good. no one take this personally but i dont think its their land. i think they r stealing it. i think sharon should get in trouble for killing millions of innocent ppl.\ni think da only person dat can stop it is bush. instead he is supporting them and helping sharon by giving him money and lots of weapons. i think dats wrong.
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Because when Israel was created by the British pull out somewhere after ww2. The land prior to that was known as Palestine the land was annexed and given to the Jews and renamed Israel.. The Palestinians still consider it their land  so they created the PLO to try and take it back .\n\n      I am a neutral person and I know depending on who you ask the other side is responsible. I believe there is a great deal of fault on both sides of the conflict.\n\n     I did a UN tour in Israel and am in no way an expert but I am  neutral .I can say that neither side is Innocent..\n \n     I sent you a site to at least show the chain of events leading up to today.It covers this century.. I hope it helps. The real conflict has been going on since biblical times\n\nhttp://www.masada2000.org/historical.html
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what some of the others neglected to tell you is that there is such a bitter hatred of jews among arabs that they can't stand the idea of there being a jewish state at all.  The particular land wasn't that important to the palestinians (a misnomer because there really is no nationality) it was because jews were there.  The other arab states don't even want the so called palestinians.  There could be peace if these people would live in peace.  The Israelis want it but they will no longer tolerate terrorism or a threat to their security.  Can you blame them? \nJust for the record..I am not a jew and I do not hate palestinians.  I pray they can find a way to live in peace.
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Yes the Palestinian people should release the Israeli soldier and also stop their young people blowing themselves up on Israeli buses and in bars full of people like you and I having a night out.\n\nAs soon as they do that, the Israeli people (who are just like you and I) will be more inclined to get their army to leave them alone.\n\nEvery time there is peace in that cursed land and the Israelis relax a little bit, some nutter goes and blows up a bus or kidnaps a soldier, and thats why they do it. Palestinian people want peace, but their radical Hamas rulers do not, and what better way to re-ignite the flame than to provoke the Israeli army again by kidnapping a soldier.\n\nWhat would you do if for the last 50 years you had seen your friends and relatives blown apart by a suicide bomber simply because they had got on a bus to go to work.
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CUT-OFF ALL AID TO THOSE LOUSY ISRAELIS AND TELL THEM THEIR ON THEIR OWN. THEN APOLOGIZE TO ALL ARAB COUNTRIES FOR DESECRATING WHAT THEY CONSIDER HOLY GROUND.........................YOU MORONS! WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP BELONGED TO THE PALESTINIENS UNTIL ISRAEL STOLE IT FROM THEM DURING THE 6 DAY WAR IN 1967,THEY'VE OCCUPIED IT EVER SINCE JUST LIKE THE NAZIS OCCUPIED FRANCE AND POLAND OR LIKE IRAQ OCCUPIED KUWAIT
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The israeli claim to that land is based on religion and politics. The Arabs were there first, we even know this from the bible. The Jews committed genocide to get the land in the first place. They have no right claim to the land. Even so, the best solution is to just make housing and gardens and farms enough so that all the violence ends.
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It certainly is crazy that Olmert wants to kick JEWS out of JUDEA...but that's what the world wants. And Israel listens to the nations, even when doing so puts Jews in danger.