Palestine and Israel?

Question

ok if you support the israelis state your case and only your case for the land. If you are are Palestinain do the same. Don't bash the other side simply state why you are the ethical and correct owner of the land.

Answer 1

There is no ethical reason for Israel to have their own state in the Middle East. Why should they have been allowed to just come in and take land away from the Palestinian people? If every race of people who have lost land in historical wars were allowed to just come back, then California does belong to Mexico; the American Indians own The U.S.; Northern France belongs to England; Greece owns Cyprus, southern Italy, and Bosnia... The difference with this situation is there was no war for land to be won. The Zionists just came in, with some minor support from Europe, and took the land. If the Ottoman Empire had chosen to be against Germany in World War I, Palestine would never have come under British control, and the Zionists could have never pressured Parliament to encourage a Jewish migration. Once the Holocaust happened during World War II, a complete and udder disgrace for all humankind, the Zionists had the upper hand, and with Europe domination in the Middle East, they had no problem setting up Israel as a State. Things could have been alright, but some of Israel's leaders wanted to create an Israeli State that controlled lands owned by Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and of course, Palestine. If they had just stayed within their borders, everything would be a lot less violent. Bottom line is, the land belonged to Palestine before Europe gave it to the Israelis.

Answer 2

Palestinians and israelis are brothers (i mean, as peoples, they come from the same origin). They use the same arguments that fighting brothers would use over the last slice of pizza. The difference is, they have guns. I for one (and this is not a judgement of character) can't take either ones argument serously when it comes to "ownership" of the land, because the rightfull and natural thing would be that they should both live there and deal with each other, the way the mores, christians and jews did in spain for quite a long time. they both started there and have been there forever.
It's pretty sad, and it's just a very conspicuous example of something going on all over the world.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as an "ethical and correct owner" of any land. No-one owns land and still everybody has the same right of living on it. Historically speaking, Israeli's and Palestinians may both have the same right of living there, and Jerusalem is a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, so who should have it?? I say none, I think Israel (maybe with another name) and Jerusalem should be anon-denominational country/city where all religions and cultures can live alongside each other, as an example for the rest of the world.
... but I guess that is way to idealistic to ever happen.

Answer 4

Palestinians are the rightful owners of that land and as such they will keep chipping away at Israel for all of eternity. Britain took land from the Palestinians and Jordan to make Israel. Palestine was given the option of accepting a portion of the land they had before they refused b/c why should someone take your cookie, give you half of it back and think it is ok?

Israel is not a proper country as there are no true Israelites, Jews are a religious group not an ethnicity. You can not make a land out of a religion. The people of Jewish faith lived throughout the muslim countries peacefully for centuries before Germany and the Holocaust (which Iran is right, not all about the Jews).
As a US citizen I recognize why my government needs Israel, we need them there to stir up trouble with the middle east, justifying our military being there, terrorism what have you. It is not right though, Israel should not be a country.

For those that say God said Israel is the owner of the land, that does not matter, our world is not ruled by God it is ruled by man.

Answer 5

The problem with this situation is that all sides are correct. All 3 people, Jew, Muslim and Christians have ownership of this land because all 3 religeons arose from one religeon they all came from one people who owned this land. The Jew came first, some split off, followed Christ and became Christians, and some later followed Mohammed and became Muslims. No one has the RIGHT to this real estate, they all do. Before Isreal was established by outside interests, Brits and Americans, they all shared the land to some extent. We decided the land belonged to the Jews; we did this because of our guilt regarding the holocaust, and we evicted Palestinians from their own land to give it to the Jews. No wonder they are pissed. If I were God I would not know how to resolve this situation.

Answer 6

Caesar renamed Israel to Palestine back around 100AD simply because he hated the Jews. They didn't roll over and surrender like all the other countries. He tried his best to make sure that the Jewish state ceased to exist. But, it didn't work. Palestine, as a nation, has NEVER really existed. Just a bunch of squatters, really.

Answer 7

The modern state of Israel was created by the UN, it defended itself militarily against an invasion by 6 nations THE VERY NEXT DAY (as well as a half-dozen times since), and they've had Jewish peoples on that land for at least 3,000 years... by history, by international agreement, and by military force, they've earned nation-hood. How else has any other nation ever been formed and recognized?

(Interesting that the UN violates its own charter by treating Israel different from every other member nation. Article 2 mandates that every member nation be treated equally, yet the UN does not allow Israel to participate in the Regional Working Groups, the process by which the UN does almost half of its business. No Due Process was ever afforded to Israel for this deprivation. It was simply decreed, and nobody stood up against this disparate treatment. Pathetic.)

Answer 8

Palestine is the owner of the land from the begining before Israel took it from the British. So, Palestine has the right to exisit as an independant nation and have full sovereinghty on its lands, their lands that was simply passed to the Israeli people. Israel is no more than an occupation, and can not be considered as a country

Answer 9

the israelis are stronger, that's the best case for the land everywhere in the world.

in addition I don't care at all of the so-called "palestinians" who are not even a community.

Answer 10

This argument has gone on for centuries and neither side is going to accept a compromise. Actually the present day hostilities have nothing to do with the land.