Do you think that israel has every right to defend themseves and that they shouldve defended themselves more?

Question

when the terror attacks were happening .that it was the wrong response to give gaza back?

Answer 1

I think that the situation is incredibly complex and my personal sense of a sovereign nation defending itself is immaterial. The concept of land for peace is mired in history and political subtrefuge and while I may find it distasteful, I'm sure those who advocate it have the country's best interests in mind.

Answer 2

The only reason Israel exists today, or any nation prevails in war, is because they cannot afford the luxury of seeing the other sides point of view. Once they do that they begin down the road to their own destruction. No, Israel should not have given back territories won in the six-day war, or the Yom Kippor War. Spoils of war. No one made the Palestinians leave Israel after 1948. Many arabs live in Israel and serve in Parliament. There was no state of Palestine prior to 1948. Since then Israel has made the desert bloom. Built a great robust economy. What if the native Detroiters suddenly began commiting atrocities against the nearly half million arabs and muslims living in the greater Detroit and Dearborn areas simply because they resented the muslims being there? What an outcry from the world, right? But Israel is supposed to make concessions to animals who kill children, blow up buses, and commit every manner of indecensy on a freedom loving people. Bull ****. Israel is mandated by God to defend herself. To exist to be a "shining light on a hill." So, I believe when Israel's existence is at stake it is always open season on muslims.

Answer 3

In reality, I'm not sure either side even knows what they are fighting about anymore. Both sides have a history of violence. I don't think either side is right, or necessarily wrong. Israel gave Gaza back, but now they want to steal some of Palestine's land to build a wall around their country. Some people would say that's the right thing for Israel to do to protect their country, while others would say it will only insight more violence from the Palestinians. It's horribly complex.

Answer 4

Yes, of course! Arabs conquered this land along with many others, and they lost it in 1948, much as Spain was lost in 1492. Population migration, sofetimes peaceful, sometimes violent is the essential history of the world for tens of thousands of years. For individual lives there are endless tragedies and triumphs as the detail in the big picture of history.

As Lenin pointed out, terrorism is an act of desperation. It is the hopeless act of people who know they've lost decisively and are unable to move on from there. Had the Palestinians done absolutely nothing, except for non-violent resistance, parallel to the contemporary followers of Gandhi in India, today they and their descendents would have a vastly better situation. Mindless destruction is very easy compared with non-violent protest, constructive dialogue, civilized negotiation, and just simply moving on after defeat.

The problem is that the mindset of the terrorist can't build anything stable; it can't make a government, only endless factional warfare. It is far better to be ruled by foreigners than to be under the heel of one's "own" rival gangsters for whom "political power comes from the barrel of a gun."

And yet, how can Israel hold on to Gaza and essentially Arab territories of Palestine? The seeds of this tragedy were there from the beginning.
It takes a miracle - of a younger generation of Israelis and Palestinians finding some accord "outside the box" of endlessly cycling terror and repression. It's been a horrific and futile waste of lives and wealth so far, especially because both peoples could, in theory, prosper together. Maybe every land is holy, but this one seems especially so -- I felt it deeply when I was there, in 1981.

Answer 5

I do believe that every country has a right to defend themselves to the extent of any treaty or agreement made through the united nations but when they go beyond humanity and terms of defense as stipulaterd at and in any treaty or agreement that they should be sanctioned in some way therefor allowing them to realize other countries will not stand for indecent or malicious acts of war.

Answer 6

Everyone has the right to defend themselves and the gov has an obligation to protect and serve. the hopes in giving back gaza was that it would bring peace, and the palestinians had been fighting to get it back since it had been taken after israel's borders were established. it is unfortunate that it failed

Answer 7

The real question is who is defending who from what? The issues going on now go back a very, very long time.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

yes, they shouldnt have ever given it back, israel got nothing for it, and theres still terror. and they shouldve respomded to the terror a long time ago, and with more force!

Answer 10

Israel has every right to attack the people that are attacking their state.

There is no country called "Palestine" and there never has been.