isreali palestine conflict...?
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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.
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There will be world peace, when the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian people ends. \n\nIsraeli occupation of that part of the world is truly, the root of all evil. Because it was such an evil act, denying a people a country on thier land. This angered the majority of the world population. This resulted in many wars.\n\nPalestine was a lovely district of the Ottoman State that the British and Americans unrightfully gave to the Extremist and Terrorist Zionist Jewish groups. The palestinians, unarmed, and unprepared, were no match for the WWII strengthened Zionist terrorists. Who also had the latest weapons. So they lost, but not any more.\n\nThe world wants peace, It will happen ONLY after Israeli occupation of Palestine ends and all things return to normal. Hitler is no longer a threat, he's been dead, so why do the Zionists insist on having such an Aparthied State for Jews? \n\nThe world can no longer live with all those wars, our populations are increasing and our resources are limited, we're squandering too much on arms and destructive things, instead of spending it on education and healthcare. \n\nWhat a pity!
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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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The West Bank is a landlocked landlocked area about the size of Delaware that has a population of around 2.5 million people. \n\nThe Israeli-Palestine conflict is about a number of things, with no two groups of Israelis or Palestinians quite agreeing on what they are. There are religious tensions since Israel is a Jewish state, and Palestine is an Islamic state. There are political tensions that have emerged (perhaps reemerged) since the end of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, especially over the question of Israel's right to have settlers live in the West Bank in colonies. There are also economic tensions with Palestine's high unemployment rates.\n\nFor some further reading about this, try these books that you can check out from your local library (or have your library borrow for you through Interlibrary Loan):\n1. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark A. Tessler, isbn 0253208734\n2. The Palestine-Israel Conflict : A Basic Introduction by Gregory Harms & Todd Ferry,  isbn 0745323782\n\nand there are lots of journal & newspaper articles about the conflict, too, though many tend to be pro-Palestine or pro-Israel.
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Religion is just an ideological disguise.  Wars are always about territory and power.  The only reason that the US is in the Middle East right now is because this administration, following in the footsteps of the Reagan and Bush Sr. adiministration, has a serious comitment to creating and maintaining a US military stronghold in the Middle East.  Jimmy Carter laid it all out for the American people in an interview on NPR.  This "war" we are fighting is solely for maintaining economic and political control of an oil-rich territory.  The whole Isreal thing is a bogus excuse.  God will support the righteous--yeah right, what are you smoking.  According to the Bible, God instigated more wars than anything else.  He commanded massacres and genocide.  Isreal was formed, according to the Bible, because God commanded the Hebrews to kill all the Cannonites and take over their territory.  The modern state of Isreal was formed by the Allied powers after WWII because none of their countries wanted to take in all the Jewish refugees, so they picked their "historical" homeland, disposesed all the people already living their at that time and forcefully created a new state of Isreal.  Religion has always been and will always be an intricate screen to hide power-hungary facist regimes.  If people keep buying into the Bush administrations lies that we, a Judeo-Christian country that symbolizes all that is good are fighting Muslim countries because they symbolize all that is evil, the cycle of violence will perpetuate itself, and those people will only strengthen the ideological forces that promote this war.
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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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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 war is not stupid, unfortunately.\n\nIt is a war of annihilation.\n\nThe Arab states intend to kill every Jewish man, woman and child.\n\nThat includes YOU.\n\nDon't say you're not Jewish.  You belong to a Christian nation.  Christians are just a Jewish Sect, according to Islam.\n\nWhen Israel dies, you're dead.  I'm dead.\n\nUnderstand what the history is.\n\nA short allegory of Israel:\n\nPretend that Israel is an apartment building.\n\nSome jews live there, some Arabs (Jordanians). Many empty nasty apartments.\n\nThe Health Department says you Jews need a place to live. Take these places, fix them up, live here.\n\nTired Jews move into vacant apartments, in spite of the hatred and attacks and murders by the Arabs (Jordanians).\nThem fix up the apartments, live quietly, and protect themselves.\n\nHealth Department comes by and says, good job, you can keep the apartments and the building itself.\n\nJews now own the building. Arabs (Jordanians) say "Oh my God, they will murder and kill and rob and rape us simply because we murdered and killed and robbed and raped them, how unfair!!"\n\nArabs (Jordanians) run away leaving vacant apartments.\n\nAbandoned apartments become property of the landlords (Jews) and are turned over to other settlers who move in.\n\nArabs (Jordanians) go to all other Arab countries and whine about reparations and poverty. Other Arab Countries kick them out.\n\nArabs (Jordanians) decide that they need a new image.\n\n"Hey!!! We're Palestinizers now! Palestinites? Palestonians? Palesturgers??? (Gets out Liberal Arab Talking Points Crib notes) Oh! Palestineans! Right. These mean thoughtless cruel non burkah wearing Jews have DRIVEN us from our ancestral lands in Palestan. Wait!! Palestine. Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo (are the cameras still on me?) Hoo. We are peaceful people so murder them, rape their women, crush their children, blow up their weddings, funerals, cafe's, busses, wait - don't hurt the furniture, we'll need that!"
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Because of the fight with palestinians.
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Frankly, if I could pay Israelites to leave the West Bank, I would, as long as it is part of a broader peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. Peace is worth the price, although I would hope that Israel, Europe, and (ideally but improbably) Arab nations would chip in as well.\n\nHowever, if either side in this conflict could be bought off, the conflict would have ended a long time ago. I think that standing up for the Jewish state as a God-given mandate is probably more important to the West Bank settlers than money. And so the bloodshed continues...
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Personally, I believe Israel has the right to exist but at the same time Palestine's rights are being violated by not existing. If you read Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations", he'll say yes, this war is a clash between Western civilization and Islamic civilization. Much of this conflict, according to him, was brushed under the carpet during the Soviet era both the Islamic World and the West were fighting communism. Do I agree with him? Not really, but he does bring up some strong points.\n\nThe West (particularly the US) interfered to a great extent in the Islamic World in the post- WW2 era and supported some very corrupt regimes such as the Shah's government in Iran. Many of the governments of this time were Arab Nationalist, but people got tired of these governments with their abuse and corruption and turned to Islamist governments. In some instances, the US encouraged the Islamists because some of the Arab Nationalists were too anti-American for their tastes. Israel is the most blatant example of Western interferance because the US uses it as its foothold in the Middle East, to the resentment of the rest of the Arab World especially since they were so thoroughly defeated during the Six Days War in 1967 because throughout most of Middle Eastern history Jews and Christians have lived in Islamic states without a lot of abuse. So, really, the West cannot be considered innocent of the current situation in the Middle East and though, of course, much of it is a reflection of events occurring there, a large part of it is a reaction against the West and Western ideology.
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I think you mean the Arab-Israeli conflict. I'm pretty sure the Arabs were on the Palestinians' side.\n\nNo that that's out of the way, I suppose you'll want to learn more about this fascinating bit of history.\nhttp://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/toc-pal-isr-primer.html is a good site. Thorough, easy to understand, and well organized. You should be able to find exactly what you're looking for.
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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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The country does not belong to the Palestinians.\nIt belongs to the Israelis.
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Israel's genocide of Palestinians is literally countless, on a daily basis backed by US & UK. But things have proved  to be changing since the Lebanon war, not only because there is change in balance as military power and that Zionist targets are in range now although that's been the reason the recent war ended. But the main important issue is that public conscience is waking up thanks to a counterbalancing flow of information against the corporate media.\nPlease keep on asking just for the sake of truth, although there are many people whose hearts have already turned to stone.
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Centuries ago, there used to be jews in what is not palestine or israel.  After Christinaity came, some converted, and then afterwards, some converted to Islam.  The people who lived there were known as Palestinians whether Jewish, Christians or Muslims.  For a few hundred years, the land was under Ottoman rule, and the British and French agreed with Prince Abdallah at that time (through Lawrence of Arabia) that if the Arab countries revolt against Ottoman rule in 1916, they would give Arab countries their land and independence.  The Arabs complied and after WWI, the whole Arab land was divided between British and French mandates.  What was known as Palestine was under British Mandate.\nAt the same time, the Zionists had already declared that they want a land for Jewish people in what was known Palestine or Argentina.  Due to hatred of the Jews in Europe and to ge many out, there was what is called the Balfour declaration in 1917, whereby Lord Balfour decided to give away Palestine to the Jews.  In 1948, the British left Palestine, and hous later the State of Israel was created and 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes.  These Palestinians and later refugees are today over 3 million Palestinians scattered all over the world. \nAfterwards, the UN declare that the land should be divided 2/3 to Israel and 1/3 to Palestinians, not proportionate to the populations at all.  Since Israel has occupied more lands in several wars and built settlements in what was given to the Palestinians in that UN resolution.\nThe Palestinians have been fighting to get back their land.  But each current agreement offered from the Israelis gives hem even less of the 1/3 originally given to them.  There are in total 5 million Palestinians who have no homeland.  On the other hand, most jews (except the Palestinian Jews) have a second country as they did belong to some sort of country before  going to Palestine.  \nWHy should Jews have a country of their own?  It is a religion after all, not a nationality.  Imagine Christians saying we want a country and expelling all others. Or Muslims saying they want to expell all other residents and have their own country.  No one would accept this.  But everyone (in powerful positions) is accepting that Jewish people have to have their own land, and therefore they are just closing their eyes to the inhumane conditions they are putting the Palestinians through.\nPalestinian fighting has not been there as long as the killing of Palestinians by Israelis, the Israelis started when they created their state by having massacres, e.g. Deir Yassin 10 April 1948.  But they are constantly claiming that they are assassinating Palestinians and killing "terrorists" while the latter are just trying to get their land and dignity.\nHope this is a fair explanation!
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Th whole world is sensitive about the holocoust not just Israel. The horrific crimes commited against the Jews by the natzi party was evil and it saddens all..\n\n        A little lesson in history:\n\nIsrael became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.\n\nAfter the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.\n\nJews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians...\n\n For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. \n\nIn the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant. \n\nKing David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. \n\n   The Arab nations initiated four wars against Israel:\n\n1948 War of Independence \n1956 Sinai War \n1967 Six Day War \n1973 Yom Kippur War \nIsrael defended itself each time and won. After each war Israeli army withdrew from most of the areas it captured (see maps). (see Camp-David Accords). This is unprecedented in World history and shows Israel's willingness to reach peace even at the risk of fighting for its very existence each time anew.\n\n The Palestinians have made no effort for peace, Still they terrorize with their suicide bombers. They were give more land and it still isnt enough..I have come to the conclusion that they just enjoy violence and they in no way want peace..I look upon the actions of the palestinians with saddness because I think they have the same intentions as Adolph Hilter..