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I'm just so curious... First it was war with the Palestinians. And now with the Lebanese? Why can't there just be peace in the middle east??? It saddens me....

2006-07-15 04:02:13 · 17 answers · asked by kool_dude 2 in News & Events Current Events

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The Israelis are in a country that doesn't belong to them (at least not before WWII), unless you call their distant ancestors who lived there a reason for taking over Palestinian and arab territory. Of course there'll be conflict, arab people were displaced by foreigners from Europe, displaced Jews left-over from Hitler's holocaust. If that was OK, then start giving back some of the land taken away from us American Indians....same difference.

2006-07-15 08:27:35 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 2 0

The real cause of the current violence in the Middle East over the past few days is NOT Hezbollah as George Bush keeps stupidly saying. Bush is giving a biased and self-serving pronouncement that carries not a grain of truth.The REAL cause is the Balfour Declaration of 1917..."His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..." Thus began the string of events that led to the influx of great numbers of Russian and European jews into Palestine, and from this came the roots of the current crisis. THIS is the real cause of today's violence, not Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a manifestion of the cause, but not the cause itself. Short-sighted politicians twist or omit history to serve their purposes, and this is what Bush has done. The president of Iran was thinking of the cause when he stated that Israel must be destroyed. It may very well be that Iran will the the tipping point in the 70-year conflict that will settle once and for all the problem of atrocities committed by the jews against the Palestinian people.

The reason the US went to war in Iraq was not because of supposed weapons of mass destruction; that was but a political excuse. The real reason was to remove Saddam Hussein as a potential threat to Israel. To have said that the US was going to war in Iraq in order to provide for Israeli security would NOT have gone over well at home, so Bush twisted it to say that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the security of the United States (read instead "Israel"). Now that threat has shifted to Iran, and unless George Bush can muster support for eliminating this new threat to Israel, Iran might be able to provide the momentum to solve the Middle East problem once and for all.

2006-07-15 15:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0 0

There are 21 Arab countries in the Middle East and only one
Jewish state: Israel, which is also the only democracy in the region.

Israel is the only country in the region that permits citizens
of all faiths to worship freely and openly. Twenty percent of Israeli
citizens are not Jewish.

While Jews are not permitted to live in many Arab countries,
Arabs are granted full citizenship and have the right to vote in Israel.
Arabs are also free to become members of the Israeli parliament (the
Knesset). In fact, several Arabs have been democratically elected to the
Knesset and have been serving there for years. Arabs living in Israel have
more rights and are freer than most Arabs living in Arab countries.

Let us consider the demand that certain territories in
the Muslim world must be off-limits to Jews. This demand is of a piece with
Hitler's proclamation that German land had to be "Judenrein" (empty of
Jews). Arabs can live freely throughout Israel, and as full citizens. Why
should Jews be forbidden to live or to own land in an area like the West
Bank simply because the majority of people is Arab?

In sum, a fair and balanced portrayal of the Middle East will reveal that
one nation stands far above the others in its commitment to human rights and
democracy as well as in its commitment to peace and mutual security. That
nation is Israel.

2006-07-16 13:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by deed 5 · 0 0

Not agreeing that everything they do is just, I do believe that the majority of additional land holdings they have acquired during the wars since becoming a state are a direct result of wars in which they were defending themselves.

Each time they did so, they so badly beat the opposition back that they ended up with additional territory. In the years since, they seem to be decreasing those occupied territories, slowly returning to the original size, except when attacked again.

I'm not aware of many outright proactive trends that show them being on the offense, so I think not.

2006-07-15 04:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

From my potential, i think of you're fake impact the Israelis and the region very much. enable me component out what I see as errors. First errors: You anticipate that Israelis have been against the middle East Revolutions. the answer to that's fake: They weren't in want of the former regimes, and mutually as lots of them only did no longer care approximately those international locations, various human beings in Israel genuinely supported the Arab Spring. Even the Egyptian one, which you would be able to desire to misread because of the fact the Israelis additionally had the twin challenge of Egypt backstabbing them and did no longer want to be sure that. yet, for the main section, Israelis the two did no longer guard them or supported them, yet few have been verbally against them. 2nd errors: That they downplayed them. Israel genuinely understood the importance, and in case you paid interest to the Israeli component you would be conscious that they watched heavily. If some Israelis pronounced the expenses you publish, then they are not representing maximum human beings. third errors: call them "revolutionists" is the two a misnomer or deceptive. they are inquiring for replace, sure, yet for a social replace on one challenge. it is scores distinctive than the different center East revolutions, because they strove to disband or reconstruct the government on many ranges. The protestors do have a criticism with the government of Israel, yet in this actual challenge. Their targets do no longer experience those from Egypt or Tunisia. final errors: Netanyahu is being called that. in spite of the shown fact that, those human beings nonetheless confer with Israel as a democracy. only, they do exactly no longer think of that Netanyahu is doing his activity suitable. Bush and Obama the two have been called non-democratic leaders, coming from my American point of view, however the US is a democracy in spite of that. they could be evaluating him to a minimum of one, and think of that he's no longer the final they are able to place into that place, yet they are not undermining Israel's id as a democracy.

2016-11-02 02:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They have actually shown great restraint to this point. They have endured years of suicide terrorist bombings, boarder incursions, hostages being taken and much more. They were given their land by a UN charter. They have fought to keep their land for many years now against people who claim they own it and will accept nothing less than Israel's complete destruction. If you were given land (by legal authority) and somebody else wanted it and you said lets compromise and there response was "DROP DEAD" wouldn't you get tired of holding back? The Palestinians want Israel gone, Israel does not want the whole middle east they just want what was given them. I side with Israel.

2006-07-15 04:50:14 · answer #6 · answered by Rich E 3 · 0 0

Dorie why kill all Arabs. they all are not bad people.
Their are fundamentalist every where and in every culture. I am not an Arab but i have many FRIENDS who are.
Answer:
Israel and Palestine have fought for 1000's of years over land (the Garza strip). And the Lebanese are a neighbour of Israel and they want land. Also they are helping out the Palestinians to over rule Israel.
It all comes down to land.

2006-07-15 04:31:22 · answer #7 · answered by AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE 3 · 0 0

They are intent on assuring that they are the predominate power in the Middle East and will blow away anybody who disagrees with them. Their callous disregard for innocent civilians is amazing. It smacks of racism: 10 - or 100 - Arabs for one Israeli. It seems these outbreaks occur most frequently to stifle and destroy civil society in the surrounding countries. Why don't they realize that by promoting these civil societies, they just might be able to make common cause against minority terrorist groups?

2006-07-15 04:24:07 · answer #8 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0 0

Israelis are just causing problems as they always did in the history.Arabs are also mistaken.They sold all their lands to Jews and let them settle there now they cant do anything but watch Israelis slaughter them.
It's a very problematic issue...But little kids didn't deserve to die..

2006-07-15 04:26:51 · answer #9 · answered by eniyikul 2 · 0 0

i k yesterday we had a big disscussion in temple about this yesterday unfortulently our senior youth group is there and we r all praying they will be all right right now everything is fine the isrealities just want 2 keep isreal they dont want to take over the middle east

2006-07-15 04:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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