Does Israel have a right to exist?

Question

The Jews have claimed Israel as their Holy Homeland, but some people have a big problem with that. They're the same people who claim their entire country is 100% of a certain religion, and have outlawed posession of a Bible, and all other religions in their land. They won't even allow people who don't follow their religion to enter 2 cities in their country. Why? Because it's HOLY LAND to them. Is this a disgusting example of hypocricy? Why can't they just let the Jews have their homeland and stop harassing them? Why can THEY have a declared "Holy Land" where no non-believers are allowed to step foot, yet forbid anyone else from doing the same?

Looks like I hit too close to home with some people. See how they react? They can't respond constructively. All they can do is tell you "you don't know what you're talking about" even though everything I say is 100% factual. It's a common defense they use. It's pretty childish. Too bad they can't offer an intelligent argument. Maybe that's because there is none. They know they're wrong so they have to whine and moan and groan and complain and stomp their little feet LOL!!!!!

Answer 1

The main difference between the Jews and Palestinians is rather simple. The Jews proclaim peace using the term 'Holy Land,' Palestinians, on the other hand, promote violence by proclaiming 'Holy War.'

Answer 2

The State of Israel has a right to exist.
The State of Palestine also has a right to exist.

The difficulty is that the State of Israel currently occupies some land which the Palestinians (and the rest of the World - see UN resolutions ad nauseum) beleives should be Palestinian.

I long for the day when both Israel and Palestine exist peacefully side-by-side with each accepting each others right to exist and with each fully respecting the other.

But this will take serious concessions on both sides. Palestinians will need to reign in the extremists - and the Israelis will need to re-think its own security policy.

The majority religions on both sides (Muslim for the Palestinians and Jewish for the Israelis) both teach vengeance. And this is instilled in the people. So when one side takes action which it sees as defensive (vengeance for previous actions) the other side sees it as offensive (for which vengeance is required). And so the circle continues.

Christinity teaches forgiveness and there are both Palestinian and Israeli Christians - I hope and pray that their message gets through. But I don't think it will. (I'm not suggesting that only Christians have the solution to the problem).

We call the land holy and I hope it will once again be that. I think that in the final solution Jerusalem will need to be handed to the UN or some other body - or perhaps (ideally) a shared-ownership city governed by Israelis and Palestinians (or representatives of Islam, Judaism and Christianity) as an International city. It should be a beacon of peace and tolerance and I hope that one day it will once again be a holy land.

Answer 3

One guy asked why Israel was given a country and why they didn't fight for it. Dude, you're not a historian are you? Israel fought off the incumbent Palestinians (who were armed by the British after WWII) and then had a series of wars to defend their homeland, like the Yom Kippur and Seven-Days War. If any nation has fought for its country then its Israel.

Yes, the Levant region is considered the Holy Land and it is for the Judaic people. However, Judaism is not a expansionist religion and, therefore, permits other theocracies like Christianity (Holy Sepulchre) and Islam (Dome of the Rock) to coexist together. Indeed, Israel has a large population of Muslim Arabs living and working in Israel. It is other religions that are not so tolerant.

Answer 4

Of course they do. Although the current state of Israel only dates to just after WWII, the original Israel was the Land of Caanan once the Israelis (under the command of God) slaughtered them all. Of course, the Caananites weren't Arabs so the current situation is not really the same. The problem came when the Romans forced most of the Jews out of the land of Israel. The Arabs, always looking dor something for nothing, moved in as squatters. So, the Israelis have merely evicted them as it wasn't theirs in the first place.
As far as letting people have their holy lands, the mohommedans have no real excuse. Mohommed never even entered Jerusalem. He died en route there. The real point is that the mohommedans, like other religious groups, built their mosques on top of older religious sites. This was done out of sheer spite, to prevent the original worshippers continuing to worship there.
As with many of these sites across the world, it is time that all those structures were demolished to allow the original worshippers to return. It would, in passing, get rid of some hideous buildings, built in the wrong style for the area.

Answer 5

Let's not forget that Jerusalem is as much a holy land to the Muslims as it is for the Israelis. Not content with the land they were given after WW2 the Israelis subsequenly tried to invade Egypt, Lebanon etc to expand their territory (which is really no different in moral terms to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait).

The Israelis should count themselves lucky - why should the West allocate land to the Jews and not to the Kurds? How come the Iranians have been universally criticised for developing nuclear weapons when the Israelis have had them for years?

It just smacks of double-standards by the US, who are so quick to rattle their sabres when it is the Arabs who do wrong, yet turn a blind eye whenever the Israelis do anything.

Forget Saddam - Bush is the greatest enemy the world has even known!

Answer 6

"Israel" doesn't have a right to exist , BUT The Jaws have a right to exist in their original countries before 1948 . Some in Arab countries including Palestine together with the people of these countries .. Others in Europe and Western countries ..
The Holyland is for the righteous believers ; Now are Muslims and they don't make obstacles in the way of those pilgrims ,; christians , jaws or muslims ..
The Promised nland is no more applicable ! It was at the time of prophets from Moses to Solomon -Peace be upon them- and then Jaws chaged band distorted the Bible for their interests and killed the prophets bringing displeasure to God ! Then Christianity started followed with the last religion for ALL MANKIND : Islam..

Answer 7

Yes Isreal does have a right & not only their rights, but Israel will take more land as God had promised to Abaham, From the river EGYPT to the river EUPHRATES, down to Dedan which is in Saudia Arabia, They will posses the land that is now called Jordon, They will posses all the land that now is called Lebonon, & some parts of Saudia Arabia. Many people thinks since Israel had a hard time in this last war in Lebonon, that there is no way they can capture all this land, It will be done only in God's due time, & not man's due time. That war was just a wake up call for Israel. When God see it is time for Prophecy to be fulfilled there will not be any nations whatsoever that can stop Israel. Many will disagree, But when you see it happen just remember that I told you so.

Answer 8

You really have to do a little research on this. I read up on the history of Israel in Wikipedia and I found it very interesting. Did you know that Syria-Palestine wasn't even in exisitence before Roman times? I'll post the link to it but answer your question first. That area of the world has for the most part, HATED the jews. They are surrounded by enemies, and so called friends on all sides but still perservere. Yes they have the right to exist, as the Zionist movement is what called jewish people back to that part of the world to begin with. Arabs, yes Arabs, sold the land to them that they now live on. Various battles and wars have been fought to expulse them, some land gained, some land lost, but they're still there. I got to get to work, I strongly recommend you read the Wikipedia entry about Israel, it's very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel#History

Answer 9

When asking if the country of Israel has a right to exist, one has to look at how that country came into existence. Israel was formed by the UN after WWII. For some reason, the people already living in the area that was made into Israel weren't respected as owning the land they lived on.

Since then, Israel has been killing the Palestinians who were living there (even though that area is just as holy to them) and destroying their homes (often with bulldozers).

I think that Israel does deserve to exist, but they really need to learn to share.

Answer 10

I'm not sure whether 2 agree with U or not.

Israel will always have its problems, it's destined 2 cause a riot where ever it is placed.
Jerusalem is & has 4 a few centuries been in Palestine.
Now Israel wants it all 4 it's self.
Moving the Location of Jerusalem will not please every1.
Wouldn't it have been better if the Powers that Be had listened 2 Sir Laurence of Arabia & his proposed site 4 Israel.
Which would have been miles away from Jerusalem, but Israel didn't want the Northern tip of Egypt!
Shame, wasn't it?

Answer 11

OK, here we go. In all honesty it’s far too difficult a question for me to answer with a blunt 'Yes' or 'No.'

In order to help me answer I have decided to go to the very beginning of current Israeli history (i.e. not the old Israel.)

A search of the net has brought me to the very beginning where I have found a document named 'The Balfour Declaration.' It is a letter dated 2nd November 1917 and its author is Arthur James Balfour who was the British Foreign Secretary at that time. The recipient was Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community and prominent British banker. The text of the Balfour Declaration is as follows:

"Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour"

As we can see from this letter, the British government at the time was in favour of 'a national home for Jewish people.'
But, there are conditions attached. Balfour states:

(a) "Nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine"

(b) "Or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

Evidently it is the case that point (a) has hot been followed through when the "national home for Jewish people" was created. The vast majority of non Jewish people living in the area at the time were systematically evicted from their homeland and have suffered greatly at the hands of the Israelis. As a result of this you claim the occurrence of point (b,) which may or may not be true.

Therefore, I can conclude that the state of Israel has no right to exist as the conditions set out within the Balfour declaration have not been successfully realised.