if you people agree that land was taken fron palestinians why dont you agree that the jews should get out?

Question

I find the behaviour of people on yahoo answers very peculiar.So what if the americans decide to settle parts of iraq now ,it means in time you will all say we cant get out its our land,right or wrong we got it and now were living there.It means the principal of your morality is kill and grab then talk.What kind of people does that make you?

Answer 1

I live on land taken from the native Americans, so I guess people who live in glass house shouldn't throw stones. My ancestors were pushed out of Scotland during the highland clearances, but I haven't heard of anyone proposing to give me land in Scotland.

Answer 2

Regardless of what happened 60 years ago, it would be well nigh impossible to turn back the hands of time. Regardless of whether the creation of a Jewish state was right or wrong, at this point in time, it simply IS. In reality-land, it is the responsibility of sensible and rational people to deal peacefully with the world as it is.

Israel can no more go back and return the land of those who fled than the Arab countries can return the land of the Jews they forced out. You cannot go back and undo it. And the Israelis will not give up the home they have established and defended and died for. To seek the impossible is to choose insanity.

Also, despite your claims, it was not like there had been no Jews living there - they had a presence the east and south of Palestine. They would have had a greater presence, but the British had forbidden Jewish immigration for decades.

Your strawman comparison to a fictional US settlement in Iraq is intellectually dishonest.

So, the question becomes, what should be done? You, apparently, reject peace and rationality. When are you going to strap a bomb vest on?

Answer 3

Land was not taken from Palestinians and given to Israel. Israel came from palestine. Let me clarify for you:

Palestine = nation including Israel until 1948
Palestinians = people from palestine, all religious backgrounds
Israel = nation from 1948, previously part of palestine
Israelis = people from Israel, all religious backgrounds
Jews = religious group
Muslims = religious group

Palestinians are made up of many religions - islam, christianity, and judaism being among them and always have been since the dawn of time. They all existed together in Palestine - there was no huge invasion or land grab and the US had nothing to do with the area or it's formation.

Only in 1948 did the part of Palestine where most of the jewish communties lived become known as Israel as the result of a palestine-wide vote. The outcome of this vote was followed by a United Nations decision to allow Israel to be recognised (all Nations agreed to this not just the US and UK).

Many jews (religious group not a nationality remember) fled to the newly created nation of Israel following the war from all over the world, much in the same way that Catholics in Tudor times left England for Rome, or as Irish after the great famines moved to the United States. As a result Israel's immigrant community increased and the proportion of jews to other faiths in the area increased. Later the soviet union also allowed its jews to move to Israel.

Israel became the more jewish part of Palestine as a result and large numbers of the muslim and christian communities moved out to the Gaza strip. That's how we got to the current situation. Some palestinians feel that the whole area should still be called Palestine and some israelis feel it should not. Unfortunately members of both sides feel the need to express this belief with violence.

Ditch the aggressive approach. 'We' are the same as 'you' - none of us has the right answer or opinion, all we can do is learn from one another and our shared history.

Answer 4

Through out history conquest was present. Usually the strong took the weak! Israel is a small nation, but backed by the USA.
I thunk population growth need more land.
I'm still against in any military settlement. After all, Palestine was once a very peaceful place, hatred was unknown. The Jewish and Arab nations are brothers trough Abraham, and through many years they had no conflicts at all, they considered one nation under one God. They loved and lived in peace.
There were 2 interfering factors: First Islam, and his belief, that was superior to all, and than The State of Israel, which claimed the same.
So, 2 superiors are like 2 drummers in one band...
I always on the side of peaceful solutions, and believe, that hatred will never solve anything.
But when people lower them self to the point, to discuss whose God is greater, than we just lower our self. At the beginning there was only the God of Abraham....
To return to the same base, there would be peace, but first must settle the fact, that there is One God to obey, and that is the God of Abraham.
To many holy books, to many religions, therefore man hands altered everything.
Fate in the Almighty lost in the human struggle for dominance.

Answer 5

If you go back in History to 1948 you would understand that a country was taken because SOME countries decided to divide the middle east between them. so whats happeining in Lebanon is nearly as close as what happend in 1948. History repeats its self. Read Henry Kesingers book and you'd know all that is happening was an American-Jewish Plan from the begining.Please People look inside the cup not from outside then Judge. Yes a land was taken, same as someone throwing you out from your own house how would you feel wouldn't you fight for it or would you? .... So don't blame the hezbullah for defending their country or Palestinians defending or wanting their land back. Just step in their shoes and see how you would feel?

Answer 6

I agree the land was taken from the palestinians, I would also have to agree that the isrealites seem to be a more peaceful poeple who don't strap bombs to themselves and blow up women and children, who should have the land, all the land on the planet? The peacful people and if that means that the violent should loose thier homes then so be it!

Answer 7

undesirable Crystal. Why do you in lots of cases seek advice from them as "the Jews" and not Israel? possibly Israel i will comprehend, yet what do you in many cases have against Jews? I stay in Egypt, and you place the folk right here to shame on your non secular racism and insane conspiracy theories and rhetoric. How plenty indoctrination will become mandatory for a citizen of a loose us of a like u . s . of america to alter into greater fanatical than Muslims themselves? that isn't a conflict for Israel, this could be a conflict for sanity the international over.

Answer 8

Actually it was the the Roman empire that conquered the land of the Jews and sent the Jews away.
Than it was the Arabs who conquered the land from the Romans.
Than it was the Jews who conquered back their land.

Answer 9

Although I don't like Jews, I can't say we have to kick them out from Israel. The best solution would be to split Israel into two independent countrys (a part for Jews and a part for Palastine). They should learn live peacefully together or suffer in violence. It's their decision...

Answer 10

Have no idea which country the whole world would end up in.However i do believe the jews should hand back some of the land that they took & that goes for all countries.