Question about history of Israel: Only informed intelligent answers please (ie no Americans)?

Question

The Palestinians see themselves as refugees and Israelis as an occuping force in Palestine.

How true is this? Were they kicked out of Israel? And if so are the terrorist groups 'freedom fighters'?

Answer 1

Go to hell

Answer 2

The Palestinians are a tribal society that historically has never had their own country. However, as with any tribe in the region, they do feel a claim to the land they live on (as would you or I presumably).

When the British, who owned Israel/Palestine at the time, decided to create a Jewish state for the refugees from WWII, the original plan included 2 countries, one for Israel, and one for the Palestinians.

The Palestinians immediately balked and said that wasn't enough, they didn't want half the land, they wanted it all and war immediately ensued. They lost the war and their country.

Incidentally, NONE of the Arabic countries are wild about Palestinians either. Syria and Jordan have always persecuted or expelled Palestinians. They are a culture of war and hate, gypsies of sort, and not well-respected.

However since all the arabic countries hate Israel, they do have a united enemy and thus these countries do provide some backing (or at least segments of the population in these countries provide backing..the governments may or may not).

The Israelis do not treat the Palestinians living within their borders well. They are viewed as parasites and second class citizens. Whether or not this is fair is debatable. Given that the native population makes it clear they are at war, it is understandable.

Obviously they view their terrorists as freedom fighters as their view is that they are fighting for the return of their land. The opposition clearly has an opposing view.

Almost every country (if not every) country in the world exists via the product and spoils of war. In every war, there is a winner and a loser. Clearly the Palestinians lost this one.

They had their own country and weren't satisfied. That was THEIR choice.

Answer 3

The Palestinians were kicked out of Jordan because they didn't want them. Just before that happened the British gave the refugees from the Holocaust a small piece of desert for them to live on. They turned that awful desert into a thriving area. The People who started to call themselves Palestinians decided they wanted the same land as Israel. They have been fighting since the beginning. If they had taken there piece of land and worked it as the Israelis did they would not be in the situation they are in now. Do you see the major Arab nations trying to help them - Ever- no they haven't because they don't like them either. They have spent all of their energies on suicide bombings and raids into Israel to kill the people there. The Israeli, contrary to the terrorists, are protecting themselves. You can read all of this history if you stay away from the propaganda sites and go to a library and read a real book!!

Answer 4

The Palestinians were invaded in 1948 by a Zionist regime when the British mandated that part of Palestine should now be Israel. They were killed, raped and imprisoned while most being forced from their homes to live in cities of tents that were eventually built upon. They are still awaiting their right of return. Then in 1967 the Zionist decided they needed more land than was given to them and occupied yet even more land. Now a concrete wall has been built all around them as to inhibit their freedom, as if the checkpoints every four blocks wasn't bad enough. The so called terrorists are not as the American media makes them seem. They are fighting for basic human rights. They are fighting for the land that belongs to them. The struggle continues and worsens every day while their homes get demolished and their children get killed just walking to school or going to the store. It is a disgrace that the world is standing by and watching this atrocity.

Answer 5

This is a very brief, generalized answer. There's a great deal of research you need to do to better understand the complexity of the conflict.

At the end of World War II, Britain removed it's presence from the territory it called Palestine, which incorporated all or most of modern Israel, Syria, and Lebanon. The first party to fill the power vacuum was a Jewish politcal force with the intention of renewing Israel as a Jewish state. They formed a military and expelled the Arab residents, whose culture had been there for hundreds of years, and who consider their claims to the land just as valid as the same claims by the Jews. Many Muslim Arabs resisted, eventually forming into political groups, largely consolidated at one point under the PLO. They (now called Palestinians) consider themselves to be refugees, as they have been displaced from their homes in their native land. As for whether Arab militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah are 'terrorists', the answer is fairly subjective. An insurgent doesn't consider acts of war to be terrorism. Those attempting to nullify rebellion do. This conflict is as vociferous and as lasting as it is because all complaining parties have very legitimate reasons to continue fighting.

It is ignorant to limit a historical question to a non-American. Perhaps that limitation would be acceptable if you were asking a specific cultural question.

Answer 6

Funny how none of the Americans answered this question. They just defended themselves and their American heritage because they all have HONOR. Something you know nothing of. By the way, freedom fighters don't commit violence against civilians. That is what terrorists do. But if you really want too find out, go over there and ask some of the citizens how they feel about the Palestinians.

Answer 7

Yes, the Palestinians are freedom fighters, because as yet, they have no recognised state or country to call their own. Their cause (nationhood) is a just one.

It pays to remember that the state of Israel was formed on the basis of zionist terrorism. Funny how history repeats.

Terrorist has become a flippant label that is too easily used to discredit any group that various Governments (the US included) want silenced.

Answer 8

Why do you expect to get informed, intelligent opinions when you are a biased, ignorant person yourself?

Anyway, the country of Israel was created (ie., stolen) after World War II through the scheming of the US and European countries. It was land that belonged to the Palestinians, even though they may not have had a cohesive government. The Palestinians are correct. The only claim the Israelis have to that land is their religious belief that God gave it to them (and ignoring the fact that God also took it away from them).

Answer 9

ok bigot i will answer your question (i'm an American). There have continually been Jews in Palenstine even there have been no longer too many. For some Jews there exchange into continually a dream of a native land (Zionism). In international conflict I the British promised the Jews a united states interior the middle East in the event that they fought interior the conflict. This exchange into codified interior the Balfour statement. Many Jews began shifting to Palenstine yet Britain lied approximately what they have been keen to do. they did no longer set up a united states. nonetheless between international conflict I and international conflict II many Jews immigrated to the Holy Land to stay between Christians and Muslims peacefully. After international conflict II and the Holocaust the Jews desperate that now exchange into the time for their very own united states. The British tried to stop large scale migration yet failed. multiple the extra radical Jews began a marketing campaign of terrorism against the British. finally the British left Palenstine and gave the Jews what they needed, a native land. The UN partitioned Palenstine and known the Israel as a the Jewish state. The Grand Mufti of Jordan ordered all the muslim arabs out of the hot united states. They have been ordered to go away each and everything at the back of and practice for a conflict of extermination against the Jews. Their conflict failed and that they found themselves without a united states. The Arabs began touching on them as Palenstinians. They have been muslim Arabs who handed off to stay there. There quite isn't such ingredient as Palenstinians. Many fled to Jordan on account that that exchange into the place the Grand Mufti exchange into residing. such multiple of those refugees flooded into Jordan the rulers have been petrified of being overthrown. there exchange right into a crackdown and hundreds of Palenstinians have been murdered via their fellow muslims. Now they have been rather stateless human beings. The Arabs have used them as a wedge against the Israelis ever on account that.

Answer 10

Read history 1948 the forming of Jewish state, and kicking out of Palestinians. Thats when all this started.


Also, I am American.

Answer 11

Actually the only ones who can answer this question properly would be an American in this greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. However if you really want the truth, you need to call Dennis Prager or Michael Medved and they will give it to you straight, you find them on radio, check the newspapers for their time.