How many casualties have Israel and Palestine had, since their constant battle?
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This is a tough question because the period of fighting goes back many years. Although I'm sure actual numbers are kept on such things, it would be a safe bet to say that thousands of people die on each side each year. The real concern, however, is the number of wounded, on both sides, which is a figure that definitely exceeds the number of deaths many times over. \n\nBesides this, there are deaths that result collaterally, i.e., deaths that occur as a result of this long drawn out problem. These, too, simply increase the total number of deaths substantially.
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When soldiers dont follow the rules of warfare it is very hard for Palestinians to fight them. Remember these pigs kill kids who are throwing stones to protest the occupation. Israel is the place of the devil, they are destroying sanctity of the Holy Land. Israel is filled with nightclubs, gay parades, and heartless IDF pigs.
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War must be declared upon a country. Israel does not yet accept the Palestinian state as an independent country.
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Ok, If you want to learn then let me start with a brief history. Palestine was occupied by the Zionists in consequent steps after the Balfour declaration in 1917. Since then the Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews) have been in struggle to free their land from what was then called "Israel", yet they were always willing to accept any reasonable solution to the crisis as long as it takes into consideration their basic rights including the rights of 7 million Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in the so called "Israel", a right that is stated and ensured by the UN and international law. However, the Zionists want the whole Holy Land "Palestine" for them alone, and that's why they kept attacking Palestinians and committing massacres in them even after the 1948 war. In 1967 Israel took over the rest of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) in addition to the Sinai desert from Egypt, the Golan heights from Syria, South of Lebanon and west of Jordan.\n\nThe Palestinian resistance never stopped and will never stop until the land is freed. Unfortunately the global media is mainly owned or run by Zionists who succeeded so far in hiding the truth of what is going on in Palestine from the rest of the world.\n\nWhatever the Palestinians do it should be understood as a resistance and fight for their just cause. How would you react to someone who would kick you out of your house and occupy it by force?! It is more of less the same thing.\n\nAlthough for Palestinians any Zionist living in their land is part of the brutal occupation, they the resistance groups (led by Hamas) agreed 18 months ago not to attack Israeli civilians (this does not include Settlers living in illegal settlements in the West Bank or Gaza Strip), an agreement which Hamas respected disregarding the thousands of violations of that agreement from Israel through the past 18 months. It wasn't until 2 weeks ago when Al-Qassam Brigades decided to stop the cease-fire after the Israeli army killed a whole family while they were enjoying their time on the beach of Gaza (I won't be surprised if you told me you haven't heard abou this massacre at all).\n\nAl-Qassam, along with other brigades, attacked a military point on the border of Gaza and captured an Israeli soldier from the site. Such an attacked is very justified considering the daily attacks of Israeli on Palestinian cities by tanks and air fighters, killing and injuring hundreds every month, if you are in the United States or in Europre then most likely you won't receive any news about these attacks as it the media duty their not to disturb your peace with such bloody news! If you don't believe me on this you can conduct your own research on who owns and runs the American media (including Fox news) and their political and ideological interests.\n\nIt is war, and inter-attacks on military forces from either sides should not be interfered by International law, specially when the one taking action this time are the people of the right, the Palestinians.\n\nThe Palestinian resistance groups captured an Israeli soldier, and what they asked for before they release him was to release around 500 women and children prisoners from the Israeli prisons. Is this too much to ask for? And has anyone asked themselves how did those go into prison at the first instance?! Israel justifies it by saying that even the children are terrorists!!! (And by the way, according to the Israeli law, a Palestinian is considered adult from age 16, so when we talk about children here we actually talk about les than 16)\n\nIn addition to those there are more than 12,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli Jails, some of them have been there for 30+ years many have been charged with hundreds-of-years sentences, just ridiculous!\n\nPalestinians would love to live in peace and take their kids to school and go to universities, but what would you say if you know that in average Palestinian stude
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Israel does not "attack" "Palestine," but rather takes military action to defend itself from terrorist attacks on its people.  No country in the world would be expected to tolerate the constant terrorist attacks on ordinary civilians that Palestinian Arab terrorists subject Israel to.\n\nOne must ask whether Israel is obligated to grant a Palestinian state considering the area's history including the Biblical promise of that land to the Jewish people to the British promise of a homeland in Palestine (which at that time included Jordan) in the Balfour Declaration.  The fact is, Britain detached 80% of the land promised to the Jews in the years following the Declaration, creating the nation of Jordan, meaning that there already is an Arab state in 80% of the Palestine mandate that was originally promised to the Jews.\n\nFinally, one must ask if Israel's giving up more land would really bring peace.  Do a size comparison between Israel and the Arab world: Israel is tiny by comparison to the vast Arab world.  Arabs are demanding land that has a total of half a million Jewish residents including those in East Jerusalem, Judea and Samria and the Golan.  But the same as Hitler's "deportations" never satisfied the Nazis, the removal of these Jewish residents will not, looking at the picture realistically, satisfy Israel's terrorist enemies.
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oh please. I'm so tired of "Israel defending herself" as opposed to "Palestine defending herself." They've been fighting for decades! They'll be fighting for decades to come. Israel claims they were given the "Promised Land" which just so happens to be land that the Palestinians inhabit. I'm tired of all of this Promised Land" nonsense just as I am tired of hearing about the so-called "Chosen People"..ALL of God's children are Chosen. All of them. Not just Jews! How do we know the land was promised anyway? Were there other "promises" made AFTER this so-called promise? I just read an article which said that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. The same article said that 6 million OR MORE other people were killed also (other "undesirables, who WERE NOT Jewish!)\nyet we never hear about them. I used to feel a lot of sympathy for Jews. Now I don't. They are NOT the only people who have undergone horrors! \nAnd they are not a democracy. \nThey don't know who they are.
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The media will never report that.   It's the Jews that broke UN resolutions and are occupants on Palestinian land.  This fact gets ignored and the media simply reports that the Jews are defending themselves and the Arabs are crazy suicide bombers.\n\nUnfortunately too many Americans are to ignorant of the situation to read history and understand for themselves what the truth is.
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not at all, the israeli army has the upper hand with all the weapons they have.  They kill women and children for no reason, did you hear on the news this morning, 8 children were killed while they were sleeping!! 8 poor kids what did they ever do to the israeli arm??\nwhen the US was handing out land to the Jews it should have considered giving up part of its own land because the way i see it this conflict will never end.
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the only thing I know about it is 10 or 15 years ago was a lot of killing between sectarian war. (holocaust or massacre)
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Palestine is mostly occupied by present-day Jordan, with the remainder divided among Israel, the disputed territories of Judea/Samaria and Gaza, and parts of Lebanon and Syria.\n\nYou can learn more about the Jews expelled from Arab lands at http://www.jimena-justice.org and the background to the Arab-Israeli Conflict at http://www.palestinefacts.org
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54,229 deaths\n\n103,284 wounded
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634. More than in any other conflict.\n\nSee here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross
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Palestine is the one who signs the peace treaty then fires a crappy rocket into Israel because you cant police Palestine. then Israel comes with their high tech war jets and destroys you, i think that's why you re upset because you cant win against Israel and resort to cheap gorilla tactics against citizens
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Israel is increasingly turning into a burden on itself, on its guardians, as well as on its countless victims.\nScores of innocent people have lost their lives. Villages have been levelled, and bridges, hospitals, roads, airports, fuel storage facilities and even milk factories have been destroyed. \nYears of regeneration effort are reduced to rubble. Pressure from the Americans and their British and German allies is such that no mention is made of a ceasefire in the statement issued. Israel is given leave to impose its agenda on Lebanon at gunpoint. After all, Ehud Olmert had said it: there can be no talk of a ceasefire, since "Israel needs more time". \n\nThis unconditional support for Israel as it invades, occupies, demolishes, maims and massacres puts the entire Western moral and political order to the test. \nWhile evangelising about democracy and reform, the US and increasingly Europe continue to give Israel open leave punish the Palestinian people collectively for their electoral choice, through air raids, ground incursions, siege and starvation. \n\nIn its latest military operation in the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 200 civilians dead, many of whom are children, the Israeli military has abducted the Palestinian deputy prime minister, along with two cabinet ministers and 56 parliamentarians. On July 1 Israeli warplanes attacked the headquarters of the recently elected Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. \nWhile preaching freedom to the people of the region, the US and many Western countries do not hesitate to provide political cover for the illegal seizure and occupation of Arab land in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. \n\nAnd while filling the air with demands for the release of two captured Israeli soldiers, it turns a blind eye to the 10,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians languishing in Israeli jails, about 4,000 of whom are detained administratively without charge or trial.\n  \nNo wonder that most have lost faith in the American-led rhetoric of democracy, human rights and reform.\n \nMuch of the region’s troubles issue from this increasing convergence between American and Israeli policy in the Middle East. The similarity between the two strategies concocted in Tel Aviv and Washington is such that it has become increasingly difficult to tell which is which. \n\nBreaking what has been a taboo for decades, Professors John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt concluded in their article "The Israeli Lobby" that American foreign policy is more representative of Israeli than American national interests. The US Middle East policy is contrary to the long-term strategic interests of the United States. \nThe alliance between the US and Israel is not something new. Since the end of the 1950s, preserving Israel's security was passed from the British to the US. \n\nEver since, American national interests have been seen as wedded to those of the state of Israel. However, what is new is that Israel has moved from a proxy at the service of British/American interest in the strategic Middle East to a definer of American policy itself. \nIt has become customary for consecutive British and American administrations to provide full support for Israel in its invasions, incursions and wars. With Bush and Blair, however, the usual frigid calls for restraint have vanished, making way for assertions of Israel’s right to defend itself and combat terrorism. This is as though Israel were a wretched occupied country, not the world’s fourth-largest military force and the region’s sole nuclear power. It has repeatedly invaded its neighbours’ lands, colonising the Egyptian Sinai desert, Lebanon, the Syrian Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories. \n\nIts massive military arsenal has been used to impose and expand illegal settlement, pursue collective punishment of the local populations and terrorise its neighbours through raids, kidnappings, assassinations, massacres, violations of air space and territ
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Israel is a terrorist state backed by America and assisting it in its fight against Islam. Unless Muslim states join together and fight against these terrorists this killing will continue.
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The people in the Middle East have been fighting each other for centuries and will continue to do so regardless of what the US tries to do!!! More people have died in the name of God then any other reason in history.
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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.