Do you think Israel should exist in the Middle East?

Question

Base your answers on the thought that it is lying on the land of Palestine with no right and don't give me that nonsense of how Israelis said "God" gave them that land. As the Jewish Bible says that their God ordered for the massacres of all men, women and children in Palestine, the Jews state that their God is the same as ours. How can God kill His children for the benefit of his other children? Does that make sense to anyone? (No offense to the Jewish religion but i just want a decent answer and no discrimination.)

Answer 1

The term "Palestine" is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century B.C.E., settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what are now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century C.E., after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word "Filastin" is derived from this Latin name.3

The Hebrews entered the Land of Israel about 1300 B.C.E., living under a tribal confederation until being united under the first monarch, King Saul. The second king, David, established Jerusalem as the capital around 1000 B.C.E. David's son, Solomon built the Temple soon thereafter and consolidated the military, administrative and religious functions of the kingdom. The nation was divided under Solomon's son, with the northern kingdom (Israel) lasting until 722 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed it, and the southern kingdom (Judah) surviving until the Babylonian conquest in 586 B.C.E. The Jewish people enjoyed brief periods of sovereignty afterward before most Jews were finally driven from their homeland in 135 C.E.

Jewish independence in the Land of Israel lasted for more than 400 years. This is much longer than Americans have enjoyed independence in what has become known as the United States.4 In fact, if not for foreign conquerors, Israel would be 3,000 years old today.

Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."5

Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:

We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.6

In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."7

The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria" and that, "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity." A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."8

Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank.

Answer 2

Well, I feel like if they want to live peacefully in the area allotted to them by the UN after WWII, that is fine with me, but this expansionist BS is just crazy! We attacked Iraq (the first Gulf War) because they invaded Kuwait. Why aren't we attacking Israel for invading far more territory than they were given.

First thing people will say about this answer is that Israel is entitled to land because they won the wars. That is only true if you are attacked by an unprovoked attack. If you attack and take 1/3 of a country over, and they try to take it back, and you win, that doesn't entitle you to that land! Before Israel had been in existence for 10 years, they had already increased their territory by 50%. That's when they took over the Sinai Penninsula from the Egyptians. The Egyptians took it back, and a small stip of land on the far side of the Suez Canal for protection. Then Israel took the canal back, and a large parcel on the other side, inside of Egypt. This is known as the Gaza Strip. At the same time that all of this was going on, Israel started taking land to the north and northeeast from Syria and Lebanon. Much of this they still control through today. They have also moved into the unorganized area that has been the home of the Palestinians (who never had an official state because they wanted to remain independent tribes). These actions are aggressive, against international law, and are the cause of the hostilities in the area.

If Israel would just stick with what was given to them, everything would be fine.

Answer 3

Muslims have many countries of there own all along the middle east, why can't the jews have 1. And also israel has given more land away from the 1948 un resolution than they have taken. All there invasions were started by the neighboring countries. The reason they have more land is because of wars such as the 6 day war, or 1967 war, that were started by the neighboring countries with no reason to do so.

Answer 4

No,not the way it exists today occupying other people's land...There are thousand of Palestinians living in UN's refugees camp in awful conditions so that Israel could be a country,,,Too many people have died(Israelis and Palestinians) and many will die so that Israel could be a country...
And no because no religion should be allowed to have it's own country...it's wrong...Israel shouldn't have been created in first place and so many problems would have been avoided...But unfortunately now there is nothing we can do about it...
I have nothing with the people that live in Israel...everyone has the right to exists...and so do the thousand Palestinians who's right to exists is being denied by the Israeli government...
And I won't give you that nonsense of how Israelis said God gave them that land,'cos as far as I saw they could not care less...Back in 1919 they tried to create Israel in South America,then in Africa...So I think they could not care less who's land they are occupying...

Answer 5

That is a good question, there has been war in the Middle East before Jesus walked upon it and as everyone knows there is war today. As I have been to Israel and was lucky enough to have had friends from all the countries which surround it, this question can not be answered is an A to B structure, in the Middle east, it is faith and God that comes first, people do die in the middle east, people live in these areas know, I have friends that can be blown up by suicide bombers and will not leave Israel, life is so much more then being safe, if you knew the passion the people have and love for the land. There is no simple answer, but I can tell you. God has Israel where he wants it, with the human mind we can never think like God does, his thinking is far greater then ours, it's faith that binds them and if they die, they die for what they want, to live a life with such love and desire for life but willing to give it up to be closer to God. It is something you feel, not think about. I rather be in the Middle East living then in Beverly Hills, with nothing but money to keep me happy. The question is, what do you care for more? What you want or what God wants, who are you living for? Yourself? If so, then you will not be filled and empty. Israel is where it should be, walk in Jerusalem and talk to the people, go to a church, walk on where our Lord Jesus has, walk the desert, bath in the warm waters of the Mediterranean, see how much love the children have, when you feel it, you will understand. A man is more, when he lives for others, in the stead of himself.

Answer 6

Your question,"How can GOD kill his children for the benefit of his other children." is answered by every war and every terrorist act.

When you answer the question of "Do you think Israel should exist in the Middle East," try to apply that question to Syria, Palestine, Jordan, etc." Also ask that question of all of South America, North America, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand,and every country that has been formed by one group of people taking it away from an earlier group who took it away from a still earlier group.

It's the way the game is played.

Answer 7

No other religious group has been given a country to call their own (except when Mussolini gave the Catholics the Vatican in the 30's, but Italians are Catholics, so there was no conflict). How would you like it if the UN would suddenly decide that the Muslims need a country of their own, and decide that California would be given to the Muslims, all Americans would be thrown out, so that Muslims can move in. You'd have a massive conflict, as happened when Israel was created and carved into Palestine in the 40's.

Answer 8

Israel has the right to exist period.

For you to say that they are residing on the land of the Palestine's and NOT take into consideration of their history is ridiculous.

Israel was told by God that this land is the promised land to the Promised people. God allowed them to wage war against the Evil Governments that where in the holy lands. God allowed them to win every battle except one. That battle was eventually won. For the ones who do not know why the battle was lost, read your Bible. There was a family who directly disobeyed God's command not to keep the treasures from a previous battle. They did and they where the reason God did not support them in Battle. Eventually, God showed who the disobeying family was and had them destroyed.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for sin to enter the Kingdom of God, therefore, God Forged the Land of Israel for the chosen ones. Eventually Jesus was born and the rest is History.

Answer 9

As for your question - as a good jew I will answer to you with a question:

Do you think Argentina should exist in the Latin America?

As for your comments - it contain a lot of disinformation about what's writte in the bible, and I guess about what is going on in Israel/Palestine today.
Maybe you should read the bible again, and perhaps pay a visit to the area.

Answer 10

Do you think the US should exist along the East Coast of the Indian nation?
Do you think the British should give the Australian commonwealth back to the Aboriginals?
Do you think Croatia and Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro should reform into Yugoslavia?

Nations rise and fall with and without the permission of their inhabitants. It is the religious factor that has made all of the issues in the Middle East into a quagmire.