what's ur opinion? : the quarrel between israel and arab began from sibling rivalry?
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I only care about the terrorists who kill innocent civilians today.  \n\nIf the Jews put their guns down, they die.\nIf the terrorists put their guns down, there is peace.
948045
i am very pro-israel but i think that you need to calm your tone otherwise you will not be taken seriously on this forum. criticising the british of today for not staying in palestine over 50 years ago is not constructive
800488
Whoever gave you this assignment is forcing you to make an argument that's both unethical and illogical. It sounds like a trap. \n\nYou just can't win it.\n\nIsrael is a tiny country of 6 million, surrounded by 300 million hostile Arabs and Muslims who want Israel destroyed. Israel is in a constant struggle to defend itself. \n\nIran, Syria, Lebanon, the Arabs of Gaza are all actively attacking Israel right now. \n\nKassam missiles are being fired into Jewish communities inside Israel everyday. \n\nhttp://www.fuelfortruth.org\n\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org\n\nGood luck.
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We Egyptians kicked israel's a$$ out of our Sinai, but israelis, known to be dependent crybabies, cried to the US, who immediately sent them ready-to-use war machinery.\nIsrael is an aggressive country who likes to occupy all neighboring countries. Less than 60 years ago there was nothing called Israel, but when Europe wanted to get rid of Jews, they sent them to the Middle East to establish their "promised home".
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I disagree with MrUSARocket man.\n\nWhat R U talking about man?\n\nThere wasn't an Israel B4 1948 so how can it B Jewish land?\n\nIt was Arab land & Israel has in it's short existance wiped out many an anicent Arab towns 4ever, never 2 B heard of Again.\nThe Brits, in the PITT accord, gave it away @ the end of the Second WW.  \nIf U took the time 2 educate Yourself, go find a old atlas from say the 1970's it clearly shows U that Israel was no where near Jerusalam.\nThat was gained fighting wars, wars the Arabs didn't want & handed over more land 2 the expanding Israel.  \nBecause they had no choice.\nFunny that, huh?
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Actually, England gave them the land not America.\n\nI don't know the answer because half of the problems in the Mid East wouldn't be there if America didn't support Israel. Israel doesn't have oil so you would think the US would side with the Arabs..  \n\nIf you listen to all of the Israelis against the Palestinians, they usually have NY accents.\n\nHowever, I am not taking sides with either party because the Arabs treat the Bantu people in Chad and The Sudan badly and come over here with prejudices.
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It's bizarre since all arabs have the same language, culture and history.\n\nIt is also odd since Israel is smaller than the size of New Jersey and the arab states are huge.\n\nAdding to the confusion is that every arab country is totalitarian, and we really don't need more of those in this world (i.e. yet another place where women are subjugated, people's rights are trampled, etc).\n\nPresumably the madness will end when the USA is no longer dependent upon arab oil.  The likelihood is that no one will care and the arabs will all kill each other (as they did in centuries past).  In the meantime, the USA is somewhat dependent upon the Israelis not rocking the boat too much, and the Israelis do their best to comply with American directives.
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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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neither do they to much blood in there history.\nrevenge and more revenge\nbut its Americas and Britain fault for dividing Palestine
1100613
actually it's israel and arabs\n\nin fact it's like the story of indian americans (palestinians) and the cowboys(israelees)\nthe guys with more guns always win
623059
The israeli claim to that land is based on religion and politics. The Arabs were there first, we even know this from the bible. The Jews committed genocide to get the land in the first place. They have no right claim to the land. Even so, the best solution is to just make housing and gardens and farms enough so that all the violence ends.
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This is because Israel is a country that was established by Zionists who are mass-murderers and known world-wide thugs who believe that Palestine is thier country based on thier extremist Jewish beliefs.\n\nThey also believe that all now Jews are "Goyim" as in dispensable.\n\nI have many Jewish friends, even they complain to me about what the Jewish people in Zionistan (Israel) do daily to the poor Palestinian people who are fighting to defend themselves from the Jewish Extremism robbery.\n\nBrief History of this Zionistan (Israel):\n\nThe Territory known today as Occupied Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire Federal State of the Levant or Bilad Al Sham. \n\nAt the end of WWI, the war's victors occupied this region and divided it in 1919 in a famous treaty called the Sikes-Picot Treaty. They Divided the Ottoman Federal State of the Levant into 4 Separate Regions which they called Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (Present Day Jordan).\n\nDuring the period between 1919 and 1948, those sectors were ruthlessly occupied by the British and French armies and anyone who resisted was tortured and brutally killed. \n\nBaron Rothschild, Along with The Elders of Zion in Europe, and other financiers, worked VERY hard on convincing the British Government to "give them" the occupied sector of Palestine. This sector was of course controlled by Great Britain, while the French controlled the Lebanese and Syrian Sectors. \n\nAfter doing a lot of "under the table" work, the British Foreign Minister, Balfour, Broke International Law by promising the Zionist Extremist Jews the Sector of Palestine which it was "Mandating" at the time.\n\nThe Zionist Jews worked hard on getting as many Jews from Europe and Russia during those years and even called those movements as "Aaliyah's". The Aaliyah's were not that frequent at first. It was hard to recruit Jews and convince them into leaving their homes in Europe to go live on Palestinian people's lands. \n\nThen came ADOLF HITLER. \n\nThat man killed Millions of his own people through wars and reckless invasions all over the European Region. He believed that he belonged to a SUPER RACE, the Aryan Race. In the process, he killed many Gypsies, Jews, Russians and other ethnicities to "Cleanse The Lands". Those evil attacks that were carried out by this German Head of State for the first time convinced Jews in LARGE NUMBERS, to accept the Extremist Jewish Ideologies that claim that God Promised them (The Chosen People) a promised land (Occupied Palestine). So, whether out of real belief in this claim, or due to absolute desperation, the poor Jews immigrated from Europe and started to colonize empty slots of land in Palestine in large numbers during the end of the 30's and the early forties. \n\nThen, the Extremist Elements in the European Jewish Immigrant Population established the mightiest Terrorist organizations Palestine ever witnessed. The ARGON and the HAGANAH. Those Terrorist Organizations, composed mainly of RIGHT WING JEWISH SUPREMISTS, started a horrible war of aggression on the Inhabitants of the British Mandate Palestine sector. \n\nThose inhabitants, both Muslim and Christian, in Palestinian cities like Nazareth, Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Khan Younis , Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, and Rafah were not at all prepared for such a massive onslaught by WWII hardened Jewish combatants. On top of that, the Jewish Terrorists had used their mafia connections to get guns in from Europe, especially from Eastern Europe to slaughter the inhabitants of the Palestinian sector who only had single round shotguns as the only means of defense.\n\nOf course there where Palestinian Leaders, such a Abdul Kadir Al Hussieny and others, who were resisting the British Occupation to declare Palestinian Independence, much like Syria and Lebanon and Jordan and Arabia and Egypt and Libya and Algeria and Tunisia and Iraq (all Arab countries) declare
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They killed a lot my friend,they commited many massacers also against muslims,i know that & u know it,\nbut the problem that a lot of ppl r convinced that israel is there friend and ally,they think they r nic ppl and they think that they didnt steel the land from muslims,all this cause of the zionist controled media and the pro-israel western leaders who r using there countries political powers and economical resources to support israel and justify there cruel actions against the arabs,which gave the normal western person a false impression that jews r  the VICTIMS.
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This is a thorny question one that no one has found an acceptable compromise to. The begining or Israeli and Palestinian strife came around the end of World War 2. Before then the state of Israel was not even in existance but through lobbying by prominent jews in America and due to a British promise to set up a homeland for displaced European Jews, the state of Israel was founded in Palestine in the British Mandate. Isreal has based this on the pretext that Isreal is the promised land that Moses led the Jewish tribes to after the Exodus and during the time of Babylon and Rome the people were once again exiled by the new conqurers and this the Jews have been a displaced people within Europe ever since. One argument that Israel was founded illegally on land that has already been inhabited by Arabs and thus they are the occupying force and displacing the Arabs. Israelis content that it is their right to have a homeland in the promised land and thus justified for occupation. The animosity intensified after Israel declared independance and thus 6 adjacent Arab states declared war to prevent the formalization of a Zionist state in the Midst of an Arab sea. Isreal prevaled and even captured larger tracts of territory which included the Sinai Peninsular from Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria and small tracts from lebanon. The Yom Kippur War later was proven to be a Israeli victory. Finally Egypt sign a peace treaty through the Camp David Accord whereby Sinai was returned to Egypt and formal recognization of Isreal was acknowledge. At present Palestine consists of the Gaza strip and the West Bank, Jerusalem is still a contested site whereby both states claim it as their capital. Years of infighting from the Hezbollah led by Yasser Arrafat which uses guerilla tactics and suicide bombers targetting US and Israeli sites have seen retaliation by Israel through forced demolition and targeted killing of 'terrorists/freedom fighters'. Also zealots and ultra orthodox jews erecting squatters within clearly marked territories belonging to the Palestine has caused frictions. To date both sides are still at war and peace accords don't last as seen by the last roadmap to peace initiative. It would seem only a miracle would unite these two foes together in peace.
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It started with Isaac and abraham.  There father was a wealthy land owner but could not produce children.  there mfather gave his wife permission to bare a child out of wedlock so there large estate would be inherited into the family.  thus came isaac, but then after the birth of isaac their mother suddendly became pregnant as well.  Isaac was the older and was saught by muslims to be the righteous heir to the land but the legitemate heir was abraham because he had his father blood line.  thus the tensions began,
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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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At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a dispute over land and borders. \nIt started in 1948 when Israel was created,by a UN resolution,in Palestine,which at that time was under a British mandate.The Arab countries around didn't accept the decision and the next day they attacked the new created state.Israel won this war.In 1967 Israel attacked Syria,Egypt and Jordan in a pre-emptive war.They occupied and annexed to Israel Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights.Millions of Palestinians ended up living in UN's refugees camp in Lebanon \nThere are 3 UN resolution that ask Israel to end the occupation on the Palestinians territories and the other territories that they occupied in 1967 ,but the Israelis refuse to do it...\nSince then Palestinians are living under Israeli occupation and they are refused even the elementary rights any human should have... And there are millions of Palestinians living in UN's refugees camps...Israel refuses to let those people come back to their lands...