Do you think that Israel is a valid state?
492899
Israel is a valid state and has it's own right to exist just like Pakistan has it's own right to exist. Isreal has enemies near it's border and Pakistan has India near it's border (they are enemeies). The major difference is that Pakistan has friends near by it. Pakistan is friendly with it's neighbors other than India. Israel has NO friends in the Middle East at all. It was their biblical homeland thousands of years ago and they have the right to be there now. All of the confusion and caos now goes back to the Balfour Decloration in the early 1900s when the region was under British influence.
1022404
if you mean the israel state my answer is yes. i dont think the us or the united nations should had made the country of israel. they just made more war in the middle east. i dont really agree with israel policies and the US is ally so we are responsible
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.
978320
Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately some people cling to their ideas no matter how much truth is thrown at them. Do not worry, not all Americans feel that Israel is the innocent in all this. Some of us do recognize Israel as being in the wrong and the major aggressor in that region.
246500
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.
284121
I'm afraid "Buddy" is completely wrong on this.\n\nThe only nation to officially and materially assist the Jewish refugees and insurgents to create the state of Isreal was the Soviet Union. Not only did Stalin send tons of captured Nazi weapons to the Jewish formed army (the first Isreali fighter pilots flew Messerschmitts!), but the Soviet Union was the first nation to recognize the state of Isreal as a legitimate country.\n\nThe United States was attempting to support Britain, which was discouraging the creation of Isreal. Britain and France had far too much to lose with all of their mandates / colonies in the Middle East. When the UN voted on allowing Isreal into the UN, I believe US and UK both abstained, but on that I can't be certain.\n\nAfter all the Soviet Union had done for the state of Isreal Stalin was undertandably upset when the Isrealis jumped ship and sucked up to the US instead. This had a direct effect on the creation of Stalin's delusional "Jewish Doctor's Plot" and other new anti-semitic acts of persecution.
960067
Why would you want to? Without Israel the Middle East would be more of a hellhole than it is now. Israel is the only country there with a free press, independent judiciary, and free, multi-party elections. It also produces more academic papers than any of its neigbours, who are undistinguished in every field except extracting oil (using Western technology) and protesting in the streets. One would have hoped that in the past fifty years its neighbours would have tried to learn a thing or two. 'Remove' Israel and there will be no more example of a successful state for all the loser countries in the region.
313042
Israel is definitely a flash point in the mideast and a big reason why there is such a reift between the US and most of the Muslim world.   I have no clue why we continue to support them to the extent that we do ---- likley due all the political contributions in the US ---- We let Israel have a secret nuclear weapons cache, but we threaten Iran for the same thing - no wonder we are viewed the way we are.   I am not saying give the land back. but clearly the borders need to be reset and a lot more settlements taken down --- The US policy on Israel has not worked in the US's favor in over 4 decades ---- It really needs to change
708445
dstr you are so lost in false reality I'm surprised you can find the can in the morning.  You think its okay to allow a verifiable nut ball that wants to kill all Jews, wipe out Israel and bring forth Armageddon the same rights as the United states.  Is the idea of sovereign state that foreign to you?  News flash.... there are such thing as real bad people even though you think that it is only republicans.
731529
israel has frequently been nicknamed the 51st state
104492
The country does not belong to the Palestinians.\nIt belongs to the Israelis.
121206
i think no and to know about your goverment so go out your country and see what they do. All what they care about is to help Israel and the huge bussnes men that conltrolling the USA
507053
Wow...I'm amused by the previous post.  Does he really think that Jews never lived in Palestine?  He should read any history book.  Jewish history in Palestine is well documented, and has been known for generations.\n\nI think today, most of the world recognizes it as a region in limbo...not quite a nation, but not exactly a territory.  It is unique.  \n\nI think it is sad that nations of the world are unwilling to recognize nations that are effectively independent.  I don't know if Palestine quite qualifies yet, since it still depends on Israel for a lot of its financial and trade responsibilities, but it clearly isn't a typical territory.  But clearly there are other places in the world that operate as nations, but the world simply refuses to recognize them.  I think immediately of Somaliland (the northern chunk of Somalia) which has apparently been operating independently for some time, but which the world seems unwilling to deal with.  It seems unfair.  Perhaps there are issues that I'll never understand.  Or Taiwan, which is clearly a separate country from China, but which we continue to ignore to give power to a big bully.  Sad.\n\nI suspect that one day, Palestine will be treated as an independent nation, but I hope they will take time to consider their economic policy before that happens.  If they continue to operate as they are now, the nation will starve.  The government seems to have learned too much economic policy from Israel, and has adopted the Israeli model of socialism.  Sad.  Perhaps they would do well to look back to the history of the Arab peoples and research the Saracen history, in sources like Rose Wilder Lane's "The Discovery of Freedom", to find a model that would make Palestine liveable.  \n\nIf they continue down the current path, it will only lead to more devastation for everyone.
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!
947526
Why is Israel a rogue terror state? because it defends itself from an enemy that openly says that it will wipe them off the face of the Earth? i do not condone several of the decisions that Israel has made, but at least they have never wiped someone off the face of the earth.
726651
The truth is Israel was founded on the auspices of the UN, strongly supported by USA and the UK. All subsequent foreign policy has been therefore to shore up that decision.
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.