Isreal (Jewish Nation) ANNEXING parts of the west bank ?come on.?
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yes, alas they seem to have learnt nothing from history\n\nAt least in Berlin they had the guts to call it a WALL
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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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I agree with you completely....\nWhen the Muslim controlled Jerusalem, they built mosques over Jewish and Christian holy sites, and covered the Western Wall (of the Temple) with trash by turning it into a garbage dump.\nThey say over and over that they want to push all the Jews into the sea, and that Israel has no right to exist.\nYet the state of Israel INSISTS on negotiating with the poeple who seek its destruction.  ARE THEY NUTS???????
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Permanent Peace will be reached with justice first. Zionist Jewish Fundamentalists established thier State, Israel, on Palestinian lands. Palestinian farmers and villagers and townsmen were kicked out of thier homes inside Palestine and were exiled in many countries as refugees. They must be immediately compensated and allowed to return to thier homes and lands to get back to thier normal lives, instead of living miserable lives in Refugee camps in other countries. Since when was it okay to take someone's country just because some people claim God gave it to them like what the zionists have done?? Palestine is a normal country under occupation. Just like the Iraqi thugs where kicked out of Kuwait, the Israeli thugs will be kicked out of Palestine too isa. Iraq's Saddam and Israel's Generals did the same mistake and I see no reason why we should favour one thug over the other. Justice MUST NOT be PREFERENTIAL. When the Palestinians regain thier independence from Israeli occupation, oil pricess will DIVE and the arms race in that region of the world will for the first time come to a complete standstill. It's time the Middle Eastern people had a break, Israel's occupation of Palestine must end today before tomorrow.
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I am not anti-semetic, however Isreal is using the same genocidal tactics against the indigenious people of the area they have conquested, that were employed upon them by the Nazi's in WWII. The Jewish state had not been in existance for 2,000 years, then one day they arrive in force and begin seizing land and killing off the people of the land. They should be included in the axis of terror, however becasue of the Judeao-Christian influence in America they are considered to be full filling the biblical phrophecy. I reject the Bible as does monst of the world as a work of historical fiction with over tomes of a superior race. What they are doing is racism,, it can not be excused.
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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.
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how can one "illegally" occupy a place that was NEVER a country, state, or nation. AND that NEVER had a language, history, culture, or people called palestinian untill in 1963 egyptian born arafat applied the term to ARABS... and the UN does everthing against the one jewish nation on this planet while it does very little against the 57 muslim ones.
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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.
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Jews have always been in the area now known as Israel.\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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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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Everyone is the West is doing all they can to build a second Arab state in Palestine, for the still stateless Palestine Arabs.\n\nIts the Arabs who hate the idea. Because it would mean they would have to give up on their main goal -- destroying Israel.
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Simple, Israel doesn't want to give back Palestinians forefathers land them.\nWhile Jews immigrated to Palestine (60 years ago), they wanted all of their lands to make a new country (Name Israel). So they founded this country by killing Palestinians, destroying houses, running out Palestinian, etc.\nThey won't let others even speak about their activities including, looting, killing innocents people, etc.\nThus freedom countries are protesting against Israel guiltiest.\n\nAlso, UN can't do anything about Palestine because US will use its Veto voting to disappoint all of peaceful activities against Israel.
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The conflict is over an area called the Gaza Strip. The United Nations gave the palestinians this strip of land as a part of a treaty which made the isrealies mad because this land had belonged to them. There is lots of information on it on the internet and you can probably pull up the UN Resolution from their website that shows the trade of land. Its simply a fight over land. The palestinians hate the isrealies because they want to become a country but isreal does everything in their power to stop this from happening.
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It certainly is crazy that Olmert wants to kick JEWS out of JUDEA...but that's what the world wants. And Israel listens to the nations, even when doing so puts Jews in danger.
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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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Israel is a very small piece of land. God promised this to Abraham, Isaac, and (Jacob later called Israel). God said I will bless them that bless you and I will curse them that curse you. If God was not on Israel's side it would be owned by the Palestinians by now.
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After WWII and the Nazi persecution of the Jews, the UN and the world leaders set up a secular nation of Israel at the beckoning of SECULAR ZIONISTS. This is not the "Kingdom" of Israel and has nothing to do with any Bible restoration prophecy. People today (“Christian Zionists”) think it is according to prophecy, but they are seriously mistaken. Any restoration prophecies that really pertain to literal Israel were fulfilled long ago when they were released from Babylonian captivity. Any newer prophecies are fulfilled in a new Israel which is not the literal nation of Israel, but rather a spiritual nation of people made up of every nation and tongue today. Their Jerusalem is a heavenly one. Their capital city is a heavenly government ruled by the resurrected Christ Jesus.\n\nJesus Christ, near the end of his lfe, stood on the hill overlooking Jerusalem and the temple....looked down at it and condemned their relationship with God.\n\nNow....looking at the modern situation...it gets very interesting....you see there are a great many Christian Zionists who think that Israel is still favored by God and they feel the Israelites have a god-given right to palestine....these people have HUGE pull in the affairs of the governments which support Israel. Believe it or not this zionist movement will do anything to prevent the current peace efforts from proceeding because they do not want Israel to loose any of their "god-given" land. (The peace plans or "road map to peace" calls for them to loose some)\nThese people interestingly think they are going to be raptured off the world scene so they do not have to deal with any of the nasty results of their meddleing. The Christian zionists are sadly mistaken and bad things will come from their involvement.....(They already have).\n\nGoing on.....ponder this....just 3 days before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US.....the United States and Israel walked out of the UN conference on racism...they turned their backs on the world community who had passed a resolution that stated that zionism equals racism. This conference was planned for years......the arab community for years planned to present this resolution at this very conference......I wonder.....Could it be.....that this was in fact the TRIGGER for the attacks on the WTC in New York and the pentagon? Were these Al Khada terrorists poised and waiting for this walk out? I say this is a possibility, but what do I know? This presents the question.....If the US was not so motivated by Christian Zionists and their political influence, would there have been an attack? Would Muslims have the same view that they have of Americans today? Thanks for asking this question.