whos the bad guy in this middle east conflict??

Answer 1

Israel is going to take a lot of heat for their aggression now, but they have bent over backwards negotiating the giving back of land to the Palestinians. The Palestinian terrorists (and not all of them are terrorists, by a long shot) want all Israelis dead. You can't negotiate with people like that. The radical Islamic terrorists from all over the Middle East are encouraging them. They are the bad guys.

Answer 2

Well some people might say the Americans but what happened at 9/11 America has ever right to go to the middle east and to be honest i didnt see why us British had to go there but i think the Al Qaeda bombed London because the British were in iraq.After the 7/7 bombings ive been all for the war and wish all of our troops the best,in the past i have critized the Americans for being war mongers but now i see things differently and am on the Americans side.

Anyway basically im saying that the Al Qaeda are the bad guys not the west or any eastern countries that are helping us in this time of war.

Answer 3

this tells you who the bad guy is:

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).



Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

Answer 4

With 50 years of conflict there is plenty of blame to go around. Result is;now there is as much hate as blame so that settling differencs grow ever more difficult.

Answer 5

There is no bad guy. It is only a personal perspective.

Why not ask "Why is this happening?" Someone had a reason with some support for it.

Answer 6

There arent any bad guys just two groups that disagree to the point that theyre willing to kill eachother. Whoever wins is right.

Answer 7

Anyone that has killed anyone.

Someone should just go in there, give the fighters a good spanking, take away all their weapons and force them to "share" from now on.

Answer 8

The evil gasser geezer. He's an old guy who cuts one on your head and then runs away giggling. hehehehehehe. Now everyone is in an uproar!

Answer 9

Iran, and they need to go. No questions, no warnings. Take them out, take them out now. Save the lives of a lot of people.

Answer 10

you should be asking, "who deserves to be punched in the face?".

The answer is Hezbollah and Hamas..HARD. Not Lebanon, and not really Palestinians, either. Not everybody cares about Politics...