Does the fact that Israel only came into existance in 1948, mean all the doomsayers pre 1948, were mistaken?
114720
in the Bible it states that the generation which sees Israel become a nation will be the generation who sees Christ's return.\n\nIsrael became a nation May 14, 1948....which means that WE will se the g-l-o-r-i-o-u-s appering!!\n\ni can't wait!!!
1112891
When the British helped set up the Jewish "homeland" in the area of Palestine in the early 1900s, the influx of European and Russian Jews eventually caused a severe dislocation of the indigenous Arab population.  The Zionists eventually began attacking Arab towns and villages, killing the population or driving the inhabitants away and taking over the towns for Jewish use.  In 1948 alone, Jews destroyed over 400 Arab towns and villages, and this marked the beginning a deep-seated hatered that continues to this day.  The Jews are in denial over this part of their history, but they did it and get the reaction that should be expected.
335252
The United Nations seems to think so.\n\nIn 1947, following increasing levels of violence by Jewish militant groups together with unsuccessful efforts to reconcile the Jewish and Arab populations, the British government decided to withdraw from the Palestine Mandate. The UN General Assembly approved the 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the territory into two states, with the Jewish area having roughly 55% of the land, and the Arab area roughly 45%. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\nImmediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947, David Ben-Gurion tentatively accepted the partition, while the Arab League rejected it. Several Arab attacks on Jewish civilians soon turned into widespread fighting between Arabs and Jews, this civil war being the first "phase" of the 1948 War of Independence.\n\nOn May 14, 1948, before the expiry of the British Mandate of Palestine at midnight on May 15, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed.
1023986
No. This is a lie. Many people from many nations died in 9-11, including Israelis. This lie is told by people who want to blame 9-11 on the jews. This is wrong. Muslim extremists flew planes into the WTC. Don't get swayed by idiots.
731824
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
432551
Historically or Biblically? This area has been occupied more the a Greyhound bus terminal toilet. If you mean during the last 100 years, Isreal was created by land taken from Arab farmers. When Palestine was still a British protectorate, Jewish terrorists organized groups to blow up train tracks, power stations and government installations(sound familiar) When the state of Isreal was declared, paniced Arab farmers fled the region and Jewish settlers took over their lands. These farmers settled in Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian refugee camps which became known as the Palistinian problem. More land was taken over after a series of almost comical wars(where the US military supplied and backed the state of Isreal defeated all Arab states) occupied those lands run over during the wars and did not attempt to give them back until recently. What caused this? Collective world guilt over the Holocaust, the common belief at the time that the general Arab population of that area were just ignorant and itinerant farmers that had no real right to the land, a Zionistic , and sometimes hysterical approach of Jewish settlers in the 60's and 70's along with the generally unsupportable stance of many successive US governemnts has led to the intolerable situation that we see today. The Gov. of Isreal, the US Gov. The UN, the British as well as the intransigient position of the Arab world where Isreal is concerned has led to this mess. The world should back off and let those in the area determine their future.
161112
Israel will exist until the apocalypse.. Their possesion of nuclear weapons insures that.. \n\nThe major factors for their existence are outlined in the bible.. They're living in their 'holy land'.. Their birthright ordained by God.. \n\nThe Palestinians are a people being brainwashed by extremist clerics that have high-jacked the islamic religion for their own hateful purposes.. They teach hatred and revenge.. This mentality is destroying the Palestinians lives.. They cannot develop socially or economically until they have EXORCISED this evil..
123985
The Palestinians claim for their country back. After World War II, ISRAEL the country as we know it did not existed. What was there instead was a part PALESTINE. So after WWII All the Middle East was re-organized. Jordan Siria, Lebanon, Israel, but left out or in a very small place the Palestinian people. \nSo in short, The palestinians want their own country, it could happend someday, this is what all the negotiations are all about, but the conditions imposed are that as long as they also recognize Israel´s right to exist as well.\nHopefully someday there will be peaful solutions to the crisis.
437734
I absolutely agree with your last sentence.  But I think because the U.S. and U.N carved out Israel from Palestine in 1948 after WWII, we are kind of responsible.  But i still think we should mind our own d@mn business
360656
To get this straight you need to disregard the Jewish version of history that has bombarded us for years. They portray themselves as innocent victims of Arab hostility and terror, when the truth is more nearly the exact opposite. In the early 1900s there were very few Jews in the area of Canaan, or Palestine, with perhaps 100 orthodox Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem and scattered numbers of Jews elsewhere in the region.  But to go to the very beginning one must look to Russia in the early 1880s during the time of the Pogroms in which mobs attacked Jews and Jewish businesses.  Out of all this persecution was born the idea of a return to the Jewish homeland, personified in the writings of Theodor Herzl and others.  Eventually came the Balfour Declaration out of England, which finally sponsored the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine (places like Ethiopia and Argentina had been considered by the British as possible sites for a new Jewish homeland).  Through the 1920s waves of Jewish immigrants began flocking to the region, and at some point the new arrivals, who initially began buying land from the indigenous Arabs, abandoned that practice and began resorting to outright theft. By the end of the Second World War the seeds of the conflict had been sown.  In the year 1948 alone, Zionists destroyed well over 400 Arab villages, driving away or killing the inhabitants and creating the first groups of Arab refugees.  This taking of Arab land and the massacres that took place was an act of genocide by the Jews directed against the Arab population, yet it is something that Jewish historians seem to have forgotten.  But it was this taking of land and the massacres of entire Arab villages by the Zionists that is the real basis for the conflict in the Middle East.  The Jews, who seem to have wiped their collective memory clean, claim to be themselves innocent victims of Arab attacks.  So today, when you see a suicide bomber blowing up in a Jewish city, it is a revenge for Jewish atrocities from 60 or 70 years ago, and NOT an unprovoked attack as the Jews claim.\n\nI have a complete list of the Arab towns and villages destroyed by the Jews in 1948, and it makes pretty harrowing reading.  These Jews are no innocent people.
140746
Absolutely!  Israel is a civilized country amidst a gaggle of fanatics who don't even acknowledge their right to exist.  The land they occupy is their land, altough they lost it for 2000 years. They got their land back through the support of civilized governments and the UN. Civilized countries will continue to support their right to their home land and their right to exist. This is one more reason for the UN to hang tough on the Iran issue of nuclear power.  Iran is one country that would deny Israel its right to exist.
195867
Israel is without a doubt, the fruit of Jewish Fundamentalism, it was created in 1948 because some Extremist Jews (A.K.A. Zionists) who used terrorism againt the Indginous People, the Palestinians, were rewarded for thier terrorism and for thier belonging to the "holocost people" with a state of thier own by the United Nations in a resolution that divided Palestine up without precident in 1948 when the British could not maintain thier occupation any more. \n\nIt's simple. Iraq invaded Kuwait, it got its ass kicked and still is suffering the consequences of that dumbass move, Israel must withdraw from Palestine, it's realy the same story no matter how you spin it.\n\nP.S. Iraq used to claim that Kuwait was part of "Historical Iraq" just like the Israelis claim that they lived there 3000 years ago. \n\nMy friend, Israel IS the problem, Israel MUST conform to "HUMAN NORMS".\n\nThere is just no other solution. The Middle East would be peaceful without Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.\n\nIt's realy as simple as that, remove Jewish extremism, and you'll find the cure.\n\nCheck this website out, it's AWESOME!
289698
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.
64435
OK, you need to be specific. Here ya go...\n\n A Hebrew kingdom established in 1000 B.C. was later split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel; they were subsequently invaded by Babylon in 586 B.C. - That was the end of ANCIENT Israel. But not the end of Israel.
863392
The historical homeland of the Palestians was originally what is now Jordan. When the UN formed Israel after WWII they offered to also create a Palestian state the Palestians rejected as their goal was to transform Jordan. They failed and at this point became refugees after Jordan kicked them out. The other Arab countries convinced them to leave Jordan alone and promised their support if they instead would overthrow Israel. As recently as 1998 THey have been offered official recognition if they would abide by the peace accords however for some reason they cannot. Every few years the Israelis pull back a little more in hopes of appeasing the Palestians and furthering peace. Most recently forcibly removing Israeli citizens from long established settlements in the West Bank. However it never seems to have any effect on people who want all or nothing today. Some blame the Israelis some blame the Palestians. If you look at history this has always been a violent region. Another place to look is at the role that European colonism played in recent events when France, Spain and France gave up their claims to the middle east in the late 1800 they created countries that had never before existed. This was not so bad except they did not give any thought to how lines where drawn prior to coloniaism. Many of the problems Iraq come from the fact that you basically have what was historically four different countries thrown together and these people have no desire to work together and no historical basis to believe they can.
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...But for Jews living in Arab lands, the problems were just beginning. Across North Africa and the Middle East, more than a million Jews, already living as second-class citizens in hostile nations, were driven into exile after 1948, their property confiscated, their futures uncertain... \n\nGood topic. Not many people are aware of the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Some sites to get you started:\n\nhttp://www.jimena.org/\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/arabjewtoc.html\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_jews_why.php\nhttp://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/sources/jewish_refugees.asp\nhttp://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/refs.html
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Palestinians kill the Jews..please don't make me laugh, this is the joke of all centuries....and tell me please where was Israel before 1948..NOWHERE..and since 1948..who has committed vulgarian massacres and throw people out of their homes to occupy it for no reason but for some illusions in their heads?..and by the way..Did you know that most of the Israeli soldiers bury their prisoners alive..if someone came and told you I'll take your house wether you like it or not and if you want to stay you've got to accept me as a resident here exactly like you..what would you feel then?