what do u think about  arabs that live in isreal, arabs of 1948 ?
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You can live anywhere you choose.
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a letter by Ghandi:\n\nSeveral letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question.\n\nMy sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became life-long companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age-long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity. The parallel between their treatment by Christians and the treatment of untouchables by Hindus is very close. Religious sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. Apart from the friendships, therefore, there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews.\n\nBut my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?\n\nPalestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.\n\nThe nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colorable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews. \n\nBut the German persecution of the Jews seems to have no parallel in history. The tyrants of old never went so mad as Hitler seems to have gone. And he is doing it with religious zeal. For he is propounding a new religion of exclusive and militant nationalism in the name of which many inhumanity becomes an act of humanity to be rewarded here and hereafter. The crime of an obviously mad but intrepid youth is being visited upon his whole race with unbelievable ferocity. If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province. \n\nBut if there can be no war against Germany, even for such a crime as is being committed against the Jews, surely there can be no alliance with Germany. How can there be alliance between a nation which claims to stand for justice and democracy and one which is the declared enemy of both? Or is England drifting towards armed dictatorship and all it means?\n\nGermany is showing to the world how efficiently violence can be worked when it is not hampered by any hypocrisy or weakness masquerading as humanitarianism. It is also showing how hideous, terrible and terrifying it looks in its nakedness.\n\nCan the Jews resist this organized and shameless persecution? Is there a way to preserve their self-respect, and not to feel helpless, neglected and forlorn? I submit there is. No person who has faith in a living God need feel helpless or forlorn. Jehovah of the Jews is a God more personal than the God of the Christians, the Musalmans or the Hindus, t
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Have you heard of Iraq?\n\nWesterners are still trying to enforce their will on Arabs.\n\nLittle has changed.\n\nlove and blessings Don
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Yes.  They already do.  In 1949, the Arab population of Israel was about 160,000. Today, it is over 1.2 million.  Most of the growth in Arab population is due to migration. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs, even today, are choosing to live in Israel.  Why?  Because Arabs, including Palestinians, are much freer in Israel than they are in their native Arab police states.  There is simply a better life for them in Israel.  They vote, they enjoy freedom of religion, freedom of speech, women's equal rights, and a free press.  None of the Arab nations offer anything close to that level of freedom, not even to the most devout Muslim Arab.  Given this history, we have reason to believe that any Arab, including any Palestinian, who renounces violence would enjoy the same rights in Israel.
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i'm from middle east so i can answer you\nback in 1948 the u.s gov and england encourage the zionist to occupy palestin\nand what they done to my home land iraq by occuping it in 2003 , i was 12 then so what i saw i think if you are 50 year old couldn't see it \nbut you should know that the arabs don't hate u.s citizens
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Whether there was an official country is irrelevant (unless i am misunderstanding the point of these posts)  I would be quite pissed.  Of course, since it has happened and doesn't appear to be chainging anytime soo, the other arab countries could QUITE easily give a little land and money to the displaced people.  I often told my grandmom, How would you feel if a bunch of native americans knocked on your door and said, "we have this 2,000 year old book that says this neighborhood is ours, get out"?  And making the desert bloom is ALSO inconsequential.  I suppose that means we can just kick poepl out of the desert in Arizona if they aren't working hard enough and hand it over to another group of people?  It's their home whether it has a name or is blooming or whatever.
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No one ever talked about "Palestine" until the mid-1960's. Until then, all the Arabs ever talked about was annexing the land into Syria/Jordon/Egypt.\n\nBut I have good news. There is a Palestine. It's called Jordon.\n\nEDIT:lol @ Global's non answer. All he needs is a few quotes from the fake "Protocals of the Elders of Zion" and he'd be all set.
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thats funny. but the truth of the matter is that jews are decended of the Isralites that lived in biblical israel over 2000 years ago and the father of both jews and most arabs is the Abraham of the bible. Both are refered to as semitic peoples. they are from the area but they are two compleatly different peoples.
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congratulation to all the Nazis !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you forgot to say that the Arabs living in the state of the  Israel  has all the civil rights like any body else they are even in the Parliament and have the right of voting\nwhat rights  do they have in there territories?????????!!!!!!!!!!!\nhave you seen Jews in Arab countries siting and voting in there Parliaments???\nand  being Jewish  is not a crime like being Cristian or Muslim so far  in your definitions \nand Palestinians die of hunger in T H E R E      T E R I T O R I E if the Jews don't give them money food jobs medicines \nwhy don't they built there own economy instead of spending money on terrorism they should spend money ,and they have a lot on there own development\nis there any JEW  who                   killed   American people or any other one because they are not Jews ???\ndo you even know that a JEW HAS 2 EYES A NOSE A MOUTH AND AN A*****and no special tales and is a person like you??\nwhy are you all of you so afraid of Jews??\nall you GODS are Jews ,so appreciate us
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israel is jewish land, and has been since 3300 years ago. long before arab/muslim occupiers came to the area. End of story.
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Arabs are like all kinds of people, there are the good, and there are the bad. \n\nI know a few who are good, and a few who are bad.\n\nGood luck and Salam :)
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I quote GOLDA MEIR:\n"There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews!!!!"
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Since the Arabs have lived there 4 a few centuries B4 Israel even existed & it bugs them.  Has it really turned out 2 B the Promised Land?\n\nThey want 2 change the location of Jerusalem 2 suit their vision of Israel.  & they've always had trouble facing the fact:-\n\nJerusalem, was, is & will always B, in Palestine.\n\nConsult a map, unless it's 1 made in Israel/US, of course.
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Sheesh......talk about a difficult question!  First of all what do you mean by Palestine?  The Palestinian homeland is Jordan.  You haver to consider what each side wants and what each side fears.  We'll start with Israel.  What Israel wants is a safe and secure Israel, with an internal Jewish majority.  They don't want to have to rely on foreign powers for security...or even aid.  The Israeli policy towards Jerusalem and the occupied territories are all under intense debate as ways to achieve this end.  The real problem that Israel faces is their internal Muslim population outnumbering its jewish population due to higher birth rates.  Their biggest fear is surrendering land for peace....the Government they made a deal with being overthrown...and having attacks launched against them through invasion routes they gave back by new fanatic governments.  You have to remember that Israel came very close to destruction on several occasions....and that the stated goal of Hamas has always been to push jews into the sea.  The Palestineans want a homeland/country.  They are laregely secular/capitalist as a group...and better educated then any other region in the muslim mid-east.  Because of this they are seen as a threat by other nations in the Arab world.  This is why so many Arab nations pay lip service to the Palestinean cause....but do little for them.  In polls most Palestineans supported the peace proccess that Arafat began and then stopped with the Initifadah.  The recent election of Hamas had less to do with Israeli policy then it did with corruption in their security apparatus.  Palestineans fear losing their claim to any part of Jerusalem...which is what they might face with current Israeli policy of a unilateral withdrawl.  The solution has to be something that gives the Palistieans a homeland....while giving Israel secure borders and national security.  I don't know what the answer is....but I kow the current system of anti-semitism that is blared in Arab media sources doesn't help matters.  I also think that if the other Arabic nations budded out (and they have their own agenda which has NOTHING to do with the well being of Palestineans) a solution could be reached.  I think a secure and stable western styled government in a Palestinean homeland would be the only outcome that all sides could be happy with.  The problem is the rest of the Arab world wouldn;t be happy with it.
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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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The Arabs are good and deeply loyal to their principles of fanaticism.  It is very hard to crack into the people and their belief.
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Isreal use to be Palestine. It was given back to the Jewish people after WWII because the Allies felt they should do something for them since so many were killed by Germany.