How to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem? Are there any great resources?
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I just read a book called "The Blood of Abraham" by Jimmy Carter. It has insight into the problem and possible solutions. There are chapters regarding the other nations involved views: Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Jordon, Syria, Libya, USA, etc...Politics usually bore me but I found the book interesting and informative.\nYou can get it at the library.
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You shouldn't give up your homes, on the account of a politician.  \nIt won't help the situation.\nOnly peaceful interaction by both sides will help the situation.\nI think Israel needs to train and equip snipers and go snipe hunting
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the user named 80yearsleft, what does this gotta do with Somalia? Dumb @ass.\n\nI think Palestinians should have the SAME firepower as Israelis and fight. However, I think the weapons should come from fellow Arabs and help their own people in Palestine and STOP fearing the Israelis and Americans. Who cares if the world ends, DON'T LET your people embarrassed and killed, while you make trillions of dollars of oil revenues.
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You should do some research on the Arab-Israeli Conflict.\nI highly recommend starting over here:\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org\n\nFirst thing people should know is what exactly "Palestine" is. The area of Palestine is currently divided into the states of Jordan, Israel, the disputed territories of Judea/Samaria (aka the west bank) and Gaza, plus parts of Lebanon and Syria. \n\nThe British carved off about 80% of Palestine to create the state of Jordan in 1922. Israel declared its independence as the Jewish homeland in 1948.\n\nThe Arabs countries have been trying to "finish Hitler's work" as they call it since Israel's inception, not to mention the pogroms prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. (ex. Hebron Massacre 1929)
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Most people seem to have agreed that the only solution to the Middle East Crisis is a two-state solution wherein both Israel and Palistine would exist as seperate autonomous countries.  Although this is not an ideal outcome for a number of reasons, an agreed upon border between Israel and Palistine would make it easier for Israel to prevent Palistinian suicide-bombers from entering Israel while a soverign Palistine would protect the Palistinians from Israli army and missile attacks.  The primary problem with this solution is the lack of any Palistinian government with both the will and ability to negotiate for such a solution.  Most of the Palistinian actors who offically acknowledge the right of Israel to exist lack credibility among Palistinians while those who have such credibility refuse to negotiate in a meaninful way with Israel.  Israel as well has refused to negotiate with these parties correctly identifying them as terrorist organizations that have conducted attacks against Israeli civilians.
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It doesn't matter either way. The bottom line is regardless of any good will or good faith gestures on the part of Israel, the Arab world will still want Israel annihlated. All rational people know that, hence there will never be peace. Sorry for the negative analysis, it's just the way I see it.
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Hello dear!\nFirst, by the time you ask about our beliefs, most will reply that the land was meant for them, regardless that others had founded cities centuries before the Israelis moved there.\nAnother issue is History: When was Israel? How and who pushed for the formation of Israel there? What were the trade-abouts?\nMore, the striking power of Israel, the USA, G. Britain and others from that side is much stronger that that of Palestinians!
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The lack of Mutual Understanding my exacerbate problems between countries but most conflicts between countries are over distinct Geopolitical goals.  Sometimes it is just to remain the power in an area.\n\nI am also not sure what your definition of "mutual understanding" is if we all thought the same, and understand the same there would be no conflict, but who's way of thinking or culture is correct.\n\nIf you mean understanding each other I don't think that the Israelis and Palestinians have any trouble understanding that they both want the same land and they both believe that it is "their" even if they understood each other better their will be conflict.\n\nI think this is a promising topic for a paper, If you define all your terms, put in examples and come to come conclusions you should do very well.
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I think they have given enough.  It's like the story, "If you give a mouse a cookie" - no matter what they give up, the Palestinians ask for more.  When Barak and Arafat met, Barak offered everything except for Jerusalem as the capital, and Arafat refused.  There is no negotiation in that.  And now that Hamas is in charge, which refuses to denounce violence and still states that Israel should be destroyed, the situation isn't getting much better.\nIsrael gave up Gaza, let's see the Palestinians do something now to forward the peace process, then Israel can look to give up the West Bank settlements (as the leading Prime Minister candidate is talking about).
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Try to convince the usa gov who r supporting all this brutal israeli actions,and the israelies will stop,\nwhy should the israelies destroy a whole town to free one  soldier!!!\nthey can negotiate over him in a peacfull way,\nor\nthey sure can send a special force unit to search for him and save him if they know where he is, instead of all that,\nand if they dont know where he is,so how they think they will save him by mass invasion to gaza,and by destroying the infrastracture of a city with a very hight population,not carring how many they kill and harm in the way?they propably will get him killed that way\nand in the same time all the innocent civ,including KIDS,will be badly harmed by the electricity & water cut.\nWhy r u punishing the palestinians for electing their gov in a democratic way,is it cause u dont like their DEMOCRATIC choice,u make them suffer this way?\nusa could stop all that with one phone call from the white house,and try to stop a new human massacres,but i think that the american gov ,agree and bless whats hapening.\n\nsend e-mails to usa gov and ask them to stop & not support whats happening there,thats what any good average american can do.
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That's a great question. If somebody knows that, they should be \nheads of state. \n\nAbout the Palestinian business: \nThe solution that is mostly accepted by both sides (but there is still a lot of disagreement on that) is the formation of a Palestinian state (which already happened, basically) alongside Israel. \nThis means that there should be a border between the states that can be guarded against terrorist intrusions, which makes a lot of Israelis happy. It also means that Palestinians get to decide their own fate, which should make them happy too. In reality, we still have a long way to go before anybody's satisfied with this. \n\n\nAbout Iran:\nBasically, Iran will have to recognize the state of Israel and stop supporting anti-Israeli terrorist groups. \n\nAs it is now, the Iranian president keeps telling the world that Jews should go back to Europe. Also, Iran has been supporting anti-Israeli terrorist groups(and Hezbollah) and developing medium range attack capabilities that can reach Israel. All that will have to stop before there are any talks between the nations.\n\nIdeologically Israel doesn't have much of a problem with Iran as a state, except that now Iran is the main strategic threat, as it's developing nuclear capabilities. Nobody on the Iranian side is willing to give up the nuclear program, one possible solution would be Israeli intervention, like the bombing of the Iraqi reactor, only this time it's much more difficult to do.\n\nAbout Asia:\nI guess you mean more about China. These days China depends more on oil from the Arab nations, so offically it should take the Arab side in every dispute. However, they also rely a lot on Israel for help in technology, agriculture etc. and there is a lot of respect for the "jewish mind" in China, so they can serve as mediators accepted by both sides. The Chinese are not easily deterred by the Arab oil embargos, for some reason, and makes them very useful in helping Israel in negotiations and "behind the scenes"
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The whole situation in the middle east is so complicated. I do not even know where to start. The worst thing they could do was to try and start a war with Israel. Not very smart. Hopefully they can rebuild their country and try to live a peaceful life. I hope they do along with everyone else in the middle east.
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Embargo the entire area, cut all aid to the region.  Offer a $200,000 USD per hour bounty (split evenly) on civil peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian delegates -- which puts them in a situation where if they want to get aid from us they have to help their enemies also get aid from us.  Both sides sit at the table and start chatting (in a friendly, civil way) and both sides get to send aid money home.  But if there are insults, silence, that kind of thing -- no pay out.\n\nOnce they start getting in the habit of being civil to each other for extended periods of time, maybe we can talk about a serious peace plan that won't get de-railed by umpteen rounds of reprisal attacks for some lunatic terrorist's attack.  And the moment that the talks do get derailed by somebody attacking somebody else, the money stops flowing -- to both sides.  Put simply, there's no point in punishing one side in a cycle of violence that's gone on since the book of Genesis...\n\n(Consider: The USA gives roughly $2B per year to Israel and was giving $.2B to Palestine.  If we can keep them chatting away happily for 24 hours per day for an entire year, both sides will have gained almost a billion dollars.  Massive decrease for Israel's aid budget, but a huge increase for Palestine's aid budget -- all while saving the US 10% on regional aid for Israel and Palestine.  The incentive is for Palestine to keep the peace talks civil and engaged (hugely more money than they're used to getting) while the incentive for Israel is to get to an actual peace plan so we can go back to feeding them the $2B/yr that they're used to.)
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You could give all of Israel to Palastine and it wouldn't be enough.  It's that the Jews are despised in the mid east and have been since biblical times.  I don't think the Arabs would be happy unless Jews were wiped off the face of Earth.  Then they would concentrate on someone else.
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ISRAEL IS STUPID !! ISREAL should gather palestinians in one large camp and drop a large nuke on their head and exterminate the problem .if situation was reversed and palestinians had the power they would kill every jewish , man , woman and child .
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1. Borders - Israel is now on the path to unilateraly setting the borders, as they have no negotiating partner in the Palestinian Authority.\n\n2. Return of Refugees -  the Palestinians want Israel to grant the right to millions of Palestinian arabs to return to the properties they abandoned at the start of Israel's war of independence.\n\n3. Jerusalem (eastern section) -  major sticking point, each side claims it for their own.\n\n4. Water rights - another big issue.\n\n5. Israeli settlement blocks in the West Bank - PA is dead set against any in their territories.
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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