Does Palestine really belong to Arabs?

Question

I remember reading in a book about Moses that Moses' tribe of Israel landed in Palestine and their GOD gave them that land.... I am neither a Muslim nor a Jew. I am curious to know that's all. I will appreciate all your answers.

Answer 1

Well, according to the Bible, the Caananites were there first. They were neither Jews nor Arabs.
Then, god told the Israelites to bump off the Caananites and he gave them the Land of Caanan for all eternity.
Although many left after the Romans vandalised the place, it was still theirs. Various Arab tribes then moved in and eventually called the place theirs. So, if I go on holiday, it's fine if I come home and find somebody else in my house saying well there was nobody here so it's mine now.
So, the Jews can argue that the land was theirs and nobody had a right to live there just because the Jews were away at the time. they just had to wait until they could get some help in chucking out the squatters.

Answer 2

The "we were there before anyone else line of reasoning" is unacceptable from either side. You cannot force an entire nation out of their homeland because some real or imaginary group of your ancestors inhabited the land before them. If this were true then not very many people in the world today would have a right to their homelands.

Religious claims to the land from either side are similarly doomed. Both Jewish and Arab nationalism are secular movements disguised in religious language. Both are very recent phenomena that each try claim their own antiquity while claiming the other's modernity. Arguments like "Palestine does not exist, but Israel has been around for 3000 years" and vice versa are stupid and serve only to marginalize an entire race.

We should not be talking about who the land belongs to based on ancient history, rather we should be talking about establishing peace between the current inhabitants, and preserving and restoring human rights. There is massive suffering and poverty in Palestine right now, and ensuring that people can eat properly and live with basic human rights is the important concern.

Answer 3

A brief history lesson

Jews have been living in palestine since biblical times that is not the ramblings of a religous zealot its fact, in 700 ad turkish immigrants started coming over to live and trade that area is the religous homeland of muslims as well. Everything was fine arabs traded with jews there was no real problem. This was fine until the crusades started english didnt like the idea of non believers in their god living there, The english slaughtered thousands. Things quieted down arab poplulation grew there was little stopping immigration so did the jewish population though not as much, though the land was owned by british they did little to manage it, arabs and jews continued to trade lived seperate lives, but there was little trouble.

After the pogroms late 1800s where jews forced out of their homes their became a campaign to find a homeland for themselves. In the 1930s Lord Balfour a member of the british government decided Israel should be created and given to the jews. When Hitler became leader in Germany this was put on the backburner, after the end of world war 2 and realisation of the holocaust the campaign started again, The British realise this would cause friction, but it was difficult to say no to those people who survived the holocaust especially since the british government did little to stop it.

Is palestine/Israel more and more jews began making homes in Israel and the campaign for an Israeli state began to hot up, British Soldiers began to become the victims of Israeli terrorist attacks by two main groups "Arkush" and the "Stern Gang" after the King David Hotel was blown up and the british did not want to be there any longer it was decided to re introduce the Balfour Declartion and in 1948 Israel was created. Jerusalem was split into 2 Jewish area and an Arab area. the Arabs already living there and the Arab Nations surrounding Israel disagreed and Israel was attacked. With the help of America Israel successfully defend itself after different attacks took over various areas including the arab area of Jerusalem and other occupied territorities.

Theres has been many attempts to swap land for peace whilst the palestinians have slowly began to accept Israels right to survive and generally could agree to deal land for peace other interested parties hezbollah and hamas still want the destruction of israel until hezbollah and hamas can accept israel right to exist why should israel give land back if they are going to continue to be attacked.

Answer 4

Arabs are historically nomadic peoples who lived in the whole region (from Palestine to Saudi Arabia and beyond) and are not restricted to an arbitrarily decided border. To be an Arab does not mean you are specifically Palestinian. You can be an Arab from another part of the region. The land of Palestine belongs to ALL Palestinians whether they be Muslim, Christian or Jewish and existed as country which tolerated all religions and lived in peace before 1948. The Allies (or UK/US) "giving" Palestinian land to the displaced persons of the Jewish religion after WW2 for a homeland was not theirs to give. While the Jewish religion believes (what now constitutes) Israel is the Jewish homeland it is in fact the homeland of many peoples who's roots are in the land and not in any one religion. However, this region features in Judaism, Christianity and Islam equally and as such belongs to all, and not one religion or cultural group specifically.

Answer 5

Palestine belongs and belonged to the muslim arabs, there was no such thing as nationalities before as all the arabs were 1 country. There was no border between them. Only 1 ruler ruled the whole arab world from western Africa to China, from Portugal to Italy, from Turkey to Yemen.

Israel took over palestine and a part of jordan and a part of Syria all in 1949. So obviously the land does not belong to Israel.

Why Israel say that they should take over from Egypt to Iraq is because in Moses's time jews used to live there but then they scattered and moved out to southern Africa and Southern Europe and down to Arabia.

The reason Jews moved alot that time is because they kept getting rejected. I'm not speaking this in a political way but in a historical way. Nobody really liked jews because they used to let down countries' economy and also Hitler killed the german jews because they spread plague and diseases. So you get my point now? Jews took over Palestine so they can start working on taking over neighbouring countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq ( as we see today). All this is in their belief that they must take over these countries to form the great Zion.. i think we all know this.

So there you have it, a piece of history that is causing present political and religious havoc and "WILL" lead to WW3 very soon..

Answer 6

Palestine no longer exists.
After WW2, in '48, the Allies gave part of what was then Palestine to the Jews, who called it Israel. Israel warred with Palestine and invaded the rest of Palestine in the '60s.

Answer 7

palestine does not belong to the arabs or the jews it belongs to god the jews have been expelled from palistine before they were crusififed at the gates of jeruselem by the musilims may years before 1949 and the muslims were exucuted when the crusaders came it has changed hands many times it is a holy place 4 many religions and should be shared

Answer 8

Yes Palestine are all Arab, and that place that Israel landed is for Palestine, it is only injustice of UN that give the place to Israel

Answer 9

it truly is a tiny piece of land the Arabs conquered from the Jews 2 thousand years in the past. And now it became given again to the Jews - and the Jews had no different land. The Palestinians are arabs, and the arabs has tens of millions of sq. kilometers different places. do not get intimidated by technique of the truth the Palestinians has nowhere to bypass. it truly is a weapon, no longer a truth. look at how different countries has in some unspecified time sooner or later common it at the same time as they misplaced territory. Like this: a huge component of jap Germany became given to Poland and Russia after WW2. The Germans there had to flee. They were integrated in different factors of Germany. As you could recognize, Germany seriously isn't one usa, yet a union of countries, a union depending on the nationalities in a sense basically "sense like one".. a lot an similar because the arabs no longer have a union, yet ought to have had it, because they believe themselves to be one usa. So, my factor? The arabs did not settle for his or her refugees. They placed them in camps. they prefer to have them in camps, until eventually Israel is thrown on the sea. Had the Germans spoke of an similar approach, there would nevertheless were quite some refugee camps with human beings residing in depressing tents alongside the border between Poland and Germany... And there would were consistent harassment from this camps, into Poland, and consistent bombings of them, from Poland. Do you also choose a proof why there is no destiny for the palestinians? that's because, the arab leaders in many cases like it that way. they could have common their lack of a tiny little bit of land, and made the finest of it for his or her human beings, yet they don't: that's extra significant for them to hate Israel, than to love their own toddlers. The palestinians are the sufferers of Arab approach. And this warfare is end results of the the arabs no longer in basic terms getting over it, and integrating their refugees, and in no way inquiring for rematch each and each and every of the time. someone who fairly needed what became the most acceptable for the palestinians, would likely choose them to settle for Israel exists, and then _do what's maximum acceptable for the Palestinians, in accordance with this_. yet this human being would were referred to as no longer professional-palestinian by technique of the mobs now a days.

Answer 10

Yes it belongs to Palestinians - has existed and has a right to exist today
and Israel does have a right to exist
got to love the crazy British who at the end of WWII said goodbye to the Palestinians afterr being the protectorate saying don't worry you can exist while saying to the Jews dont worry its yours and letting them sort it out - yep that worked as foreign policy