the state of israel?

Question

someone said there r so many arab cuntries why r they macking a big deal about this small land called israel that was called palestine b4 1948 .now would u or would the U.S give up alaska,alabama louisiana or any other state to the native indian if they asked 4 it would it b ok if iran supported them with weapons such as the U.S is supporting israel

Answer 1

Good Questions.

I think that if countries are willing to force "advice" upon other countries..they should at least practice what they preach.


Hope that helps Moe.

Answer 2

A complex set of questions. The big deal is that there are only two countries in the world established by a resolution of the United Nations ( League Of Nations), Israel and Kuwait. Israel was based on historical records and was a collective apology to the Jewish people for the atrocities of the second world war when the world, save Holland, turned their back on these people without a country and looked the other way and even denied these people refugee status as the ovens were working overtime. The Arab countries have used the Palestinian issue to claim the Allied countries were wrong and as such have forced a noble people to live in refugee camps for over fifty years as they would not accept the Palestinian people displaced by these resolutions. In order to illustrate this belief They have instead supported insurgent activities whose only goal is the total destruction of Israel. As for your second question I think you should look at the example of an territory we call Nunavut (None Of It for the sceptics) in Canada where the Canadian government did just that for the native people. We can live together in peace if we can see beyond our own petty wants and understand that divergence makes us stronger than conformity or homogenization. That's what I think for what its worth.

Answer 3

What does the US giving up Alaska, Alabama or Louisana have to do with Israel? In the case of the Alaska, it was legally purchased from Russia. Lousiana was part of the Lousiana Purchase in 1803, when the US then paid 15 million dollars for the territory from France. Alabama was ceded to the US and Spain after the American Revolution.

Your attempt to compare American landholdings vis a vis Native Americans, and Israel, is laughable. Before 1948, Israel purchased all the land it was using - it was not stolen or taken in war. Let me remind you that it was the Arabs who would not accept the UN Partition Plan that was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1947. Instead, they opted to go to war, would up losing, and lost far more than they could have ever gained.

Now you think an irresponsible nation like Iran, which is an undemocratic nation run by a president who is a lunatic, and whose foreign policy is decided by mullahs, should be allowed to proliferate nuclear weapons? Iran's only goal is achieve more influence and power in the region.

If Israel does have nuclear weapons, which it has never admitted to, they were certainly not acquired from the United States. The US is not in the business of sharing nuclear weapons with any country.

Considering the fact that Israel, a country of 5 million, is surrounded by enemies who's only desire is to push the Jews into the sea and drown them all, I think that they are the one country in the region that is actually justified in maintaining a nuclear arsenal.

Answer 4

OK, Sure, but you're just asking for a storm of controversy, here.
What's done is done. 1948 was 1948. Now what's important is to find a way for everyone to live together peacefully.
I agree with you the U.S. supports Israel whether it's right or wrong and that that's an unwise policy. I also agree with you the likes of Olmert should not be in power. He is the kind of man who only makes matters worse.
But simply getting rid of Israel is no longer a viable option. The Jews have been in the Middle East for quite a few generations and it's their home as well. What needs to be done is to find a way for Palestinians to live next to them in dignity. And the U.S. needs to stop supporting Israel right or wrong.

Answer 5

The territory now called Israel has been populated by diverse groups for centuries. The United Nations basically established what is now the state of Israel in 1948. Rather than attempt to cooperate in building the new country, Arabs waged war against it then and on numerous subsequent occasions, and it is still the thesis of a significant part of the local population that Israel must be destroyed as a state. Unless and until anti-Israelis stop invading Israel for the purpose of murder of innocent civilians, they will get no respect in the west. You have been warned.

Answer 6

Sadly you are mistaken. There has NEVER been a country called Palestine in the history of the recorded world. This dates back to Egypts records which goes back over 4500 years.
Next Israel has or I should say the Jewish people have lived in this area for over 3000 years of recorded history.
Then you have to realize that the Arabs hate the Jewish people because they are not Muslims. The Arab world has tried for many many years to wipe the Jewish nation of the face of the earth.
Another point is that throughout their history the Palestians have and were nomads untill the Arab league told them to settle in Jersulam because they hoped, the Arab countries, that the Palestians could be placed somewhere other than the countries that they were at, such as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Sadui Arabia, Also this way the Arab countries had hoped that the U.N. and Britian would not go through with giving the Jewish people their country back.
For those who claim that it is otherwise have re writen history and need to re examine their history books for the truth and their teachers need to be teaching true history!

Answer 7

WHAT DOES "PALESTINE" MEAN?

It has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.

The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The Philistines were mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the time of Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "Syria Palaestina".

The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco- Roman "Palastina"; which is derived from the Peleshet, (root Pelesh) which was a general term meaning "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders". This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea.

The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.

Of all that Arabs have demanded for themselves since the end of World War I, they have been given 99.5 percent. In 1921 the League of Nations defined Mandate Palestine, as The Jewish National Home, to be "open to close Jewish Settlement."
In 1922, the British Mandatory Government subtracted the entire region east of the Jordan River, 76 percent of the Jewish National Home, to create the Arab Kingdom of {Trans}-Jordan. It then progressively restricted or banned Jewish immigration and settlement even west of the Jordan River, rigidly blockading the Land of their fathers to Jews trying to escape the gas chambers of Europe.
In 1947, the United Nations attempted to whittle away the remnant of the Jewish National Home with a second partition. If the Arabs had accepted that offer, they would have had 83 percent of the Land of Israel-Jewish National Home, even though the bulk of them had no roots and no history there.
The real injustice is depriving Israel of its historic homeland, in order to invent a 23rd Arab state where none ever existed.

Answer 8

Before the creation of the state of Israel, there was Palestine, which as an entity had been there for thousands of years. It was not just a bastion of bigoted Muslims eithers. Many Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived there without conflict. The creation of the State of Israel created conflict where there was really none before.

Answer 9

You are right US would not give land back to native indians but let me ask you this: would US be ok if lets say Mexico illegally occupies Texas and build Illegal settlements on it? I am sure you would want to kick them out, but Israels illegal occupation of Palestinian lands (under United Nations resolution) and their resistance is looked upon only as terrorism by Palestinians. Now that is absurd!

Answer 10

Israel has done it's own share of land grabbing.



How about Golan Heights!

Which I will add...Israel is now promoting further occupation of this territory. The land borders both Syria and Lebanon...besides not being theirs to begin with....this will more than likely lead to further conflict! And Israel will be "upset" when this happens.

It's like that pesky older sister that smacks you in the head...then goes running to mom and cries...and somehow YOU get blamed!.