What do you think of Israel?
488634
It is a good country going through a difficult time. Socially it is a good working society. People work hard and try to co-exist with all the groups in the country. They are trying to make peace, working hard for their children's futures while keeping it's past alive. Economically, it is a good country. People within Israel make decent salaries. The Palestinian governed areas are another story.
408398
What is called "Israel" is the "state" of Jews, who came from all countries with the help of the West and occupied Palestine (an Arab-Islamic country)killing the people and making them leave their homeland by force, the massacres made by the Jew are horrible. Supported by the USA, they still kill the Palestinians and the world watches. \nEvery person who has a bit of humanity does not agree with it. This state of blood and war has the belief that every human is a slave for the Jewish people (this is their religion), and it is written on their holy book (when you conquer kill every baby, woman and man, cut the trees, destroy every thing...etc.).\n\nKeep notice that every one of the 6 million Palestinian refugees still has Palestine in his/her heart and will never forget it, we teach our babies so as our fathers and grandfathers have taught us. And we shall return to our homeland (sooner or later).\n\nfor more you can see: \nwww.palestine-net.com\nwww.soundofegypt.com/palestinian/adult/massacres.htm
801092
Yes,they will some day...And let's hope that they are going to wake up before it's not too late...\nI think that after the war in Lebanon people have started to realize that Israel is not exactly the victim there...and have started to see Israel's real face...\nBut unfortunately as long as Israel has US full support there is not much we can do about it...
803057
yes, israel is beyond the pale.  they are committing mass murder in gaza.  they used depleted uranium in their vicious attacks on lebanon.  just as they sank our USS Liberty in the 60s, they've now fired on a german military ship.  israel must be stopped.  they have become the nazis.
1081318
After WW II, and what happened to the Jews because of Nazism, many countries felt it would be politically advantageous to give the Jews their own country and put it in modern-day Israel.  Which at the time was inhabited by Palestinians.  So you can imagine why the Palestinians feel slighted when they had no say in what they saw as their own land being given away.  So they did what humans often do and attacked Israel.\n\nNow the Jews of Israel didn't really see this as they took the land, the land was given to them.  And so they saw Palestine attacking them and the defended themselves, basically these wars were two groups of people defending themselves from actions they saw as attacks by the other group.  These wars created strong feelings of hate, especially when Israel took the Gaza strip in the Six Day War of 1967 and refused to give it back when the war was over.  Israel saw it as an aggressive war by the Arabs (I'm not sure the countries except for sure Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; I believe Iraq and Iran, Yemen and a few others were in it against Israel, which fought by itself), and when they won and took the land, they felt it rightfully theirs.  Arabs saw it as a war to retrieve what was theirs (Israeli land) and felt it wrong when more of the land they were on was taken.\n\nSo there will likely always be fighting until the last days of this system humans have set up and God comes to fix things.  Or if you happen to believe in evolution, the fighting probably will never end until something huge happens, bigger than the current wars we see there.
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!
1030015
I don't think they are afraid of Israel. Israel could start really shaking things up over there and the US doesn't need more out of control countries at the moment.
46782
I think you mean: what is the general view of people in the islamic Middle East of the USA (America for me is the continent from Alaska to Chile). I haven't been in the Middle East myself, but if you look at the news, I think this is the picture they give:\nMedias are very hostile towards Israel, like many governments. And as Israels strongest supporter, the USA will be identified with a negative position. But I also see that the protests are directed against the government of the USA, not the people as such. And that even Bush was elected twice.\nMany Middle East government are corrupt, tyrannic, despotic, and those regimes normally got to have an outer enemy to keep people down. \nBut many some Middle East expert can teach you better.
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.
839576
Where is ISRAEL???\n\nI do not see ISRAEL on that list, why???\n\nEDIT:\nI would rather ISRAEL stand alone...She already does anyway.
540889
i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
821157
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
304661
only 4 of the 57 muslim nations on this planet recognize the one jewish state of israel. It is simple intollerance and hatred. IN the case of iran, it is a theocratic dictatorship, that diverts its peoples attention from their dire prediciment and living conditions and makes an enemy of of a small nation over 1000 miles away
524299
Personally, I think we should step aside and let Israel take care of Iran for us.  We could claim total ignorance.
332942
Everything smells like anti semitism to most Israelis  and I am sick of it   When will you jerks realize that you are in a religious state - and when someone speaks out against Israel, he is not necessarily anti-semetic - it just means they disagree with the policy of your government.  While we are talking about the Jewish State - when will Israel give us its illegal stockpile of nuclear arms?    I woul dlike to see the US begin to distance itself more and more away from Israel and would also like to see us curtail the defense "gifts" in foreign aid we send you --- and if you think that makes me an anti Semetic - Then Damn it, I am, and I am proud to be one....
717439
First of all, The phony satellite nation calling itself "Israel" has nothing to do with the Biblical people called Israel. Yes! You lazy and worthless Christians who will not study to show thy self approved, Israel is a people, not a nation. The "Jew" is not the Seed of Jacob, but of Esau.\n Well in 1948, the British went in and killed the palestinians and renamed Palistine "Israel" then the British (suffering from a delusion called "British Zionism") and the American Zionists transported thousands of..I call them worthless trailer trash from all parts of the world...you call them what you want..to "Israel" at tax-payer's expense! and they remain today, the Largest Welfare state in the World.\n That is all I owe you.\nThe Scriptures are not for the Swine or the Dogs, but read Rev.2:9 if you are so inclined.\n No apologies to anyone!
288999
Honestly, in my mind Israel is connected with Christianity and a couple of nice people whom I know from there, also of course rumors of the funny little greediness u have and a really special way to make business :)