Syria and Iran have no forces ouitside their soil, whereas USA has. Still we blame other nations. Iraq invasion was done on teh assumption of having Chemical warfare. have USA proced it. Answer is big NO. Afghanistan was invaded to capture Asama Bin Laden, but still no success, how many civilian lives lost. Israel is occupying Arab land, still counted by USA as a friendly state. WHY????
2006-11-20 10:22:06 · 8 answers · asked by Hafeez 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I completely agree.
Why do we always see ourselves as some benevolent force that has done no wrong? Look at Iraq, where over 150,000 civilians died as a result of the civil war that resulted from our efforts. Look at Afghanistan. And definitely, look at how we give support to Israel.
We give Israel on average 3 to 4 billion dollars a year, to do what? So that they have continued military resources to slaughter the Palestinians, leave them with no land and water to live with?
After all this, how can anyone NOT expect the people living in those countries to react as they do? Should the Palestinians stay back and continue to be killed in the hundreds, or should they fight? Shouldn't Iran and Syria feel threatened by the way the United States has been ruthlessly supporting Israel, and its offensives in Afghanistan and Iraq?
2006-11-20 12:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by Link 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure I can blame Syria and Iran... a Kingdom and a Theocracy who HAVE forces outside their country... Iran HAS fighters in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza. Syria JUST pulled their ARMY out of Lebanon and still has "advisors" there.
ISRAEL existed prior to Islam ever came to be. Israel has been over-run by Persia, Rome, England & France, Arabs, Turks, Ottoman Empire, and England again !!
The ARAB land that Israel occupies is a result of THREE wars started by the ARAB states of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt... the Israeli's used that land as a buffer zone. AND they have given most of that land BACK.
Why is Israel a friend of the USA ? Simple... a free, democratic state post WWII while Egypt, Syria, Jordan were Soviet Puppet states... Israel is still only one of TWO nations in the region with democratically elected governments.
And I missed the young lady who cried about the "hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians" killed by Israel... but MISS... do you EVER notice that it is in RESPONSE to Palestinian suicide bombers who TARGET civilians.
BTW... suicide bombers trained by Syrian and Iranian funded groups..
2006-11-20 14:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, I'd blame Syria and Iran.
I'm British myself, but I love America. Great nation. Nice people.
2006-11-20 10:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
both the americans and the brittish are incapable of learning any lessons history taught them,.
2006-11-20 12:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ISRAEL IS NOT OCCUPYING ARAB LAND.......
WAS ISRAEL LAND LONG BEFORE.......
GREEKS-ROME-MANY OTHERS TOOKS IT-ARABS TOOK IT FROM ENGLISH- ANOTHER WAR-WW2.
ISRAEL STILL HAS LESS... AND GAVE BACK LAND IT TOOK IN WAR..
SYRIA AND IRAN MATTER NOT...ISRAEL DOES TO USA .
ISRAEL CAN TAKE BOTH OUT....IF NEED BE.
2006-11-20 10:28:28 · answer #5 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
no, blame Falwell
2006-11-20 10:53:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The question contains misstatements.
Israel is NOT occupying Arab land.
There is no such thing as "Palestinian territory" and there is no "occupation" of what never belonged to any Arab nation. Furthermore, of the Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, 98 percent now live under the rule of the PLO.
The term "Palestinian" is itself a masterful twisting of history. To portray themselves as indigenous, Arab settlers adopted the name of an ancient Mediterranean tribe, the Philistines ("Invaders" in Hebrew), that disappeared out over almost 3000 years ago. The connection between this tribe and modern day Arabs is nil. Romans, in order to conceal their shame and anger with rebellious regions, changed the references to Judea and Samaria by naming them Palestine.
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem - Israel became a nation in the 14th century B.C.E. Two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Since 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for up to 1,000 years with a continuous Jewish presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
3. The only Arab dominion since the Arab invasion and conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.
4. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
5. For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray facing Mecca (often with their backs toward Jerusalem).
8. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of that holy city. (The source: A journalist on assignment in the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.)
9. In 1867, Mark Twain took a tour of Palestine. This is how he described that land: A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw a human.
10. In 1882, official Ottoman Turk census figures showed that, in the entire Land of Israel, there were only 141 000 Muslims, both Arab and non-Arab.
11. A travel guide to Palestine and Syria was published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker; The book estimated the total population of Jerusalem at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.
12. As the Jews came and drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, Arabs followed. They came for jobs, for prosperity, for freedom. And, they came in large numbers.
13. In 1922, with what was widely acknowledged as the illegal separation of Transjordan, the Jews were forbidden to settle on almost 77% of the Palestine, while Arab settlement went unrestricted and encouraged by British mandatory authority.
14. Prior to the Second World War Mojli Amin, a member of the Arab Defense Committee for Palestine, proposed the idea "that all the Arabs of Palestine will leave and be divided up amongst the neighboring Arab countries. In exchange for this, all the Jews living in Arab countries will leave and come to Palestine."
15. Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraq did not exist as a nation until 1932, Syria until 1941; the borders of Jordan were established in 1946 and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel is only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under the control of the Turks. Over 80% of the original British Mandate land was given to Arabs without population transfer of Arabs from the land designated for Jews.
16. In 1947, the Jewish state huddled on 18% of the original British Mandate land. The Jews accepted it gratefully. The Arabs rejected it with a vengeance and seven Arab states immediately declared war against Israel.
17. In 1948, the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Most of them left in fear of being killed by their own Arab brothers as traitors.
18. Some 850,000 Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab countries, due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
19. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is claimed to be around 630,000 (where did they get this number?). Based on population census, estimated number of Arabs who left Israel was around 460,000. They were ordered to leave by Arab leaders at the time.
20. From 1948 till 1967 Arabs made no attempt to create a Palestinian state. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated, 58 synagogues in Jerusalem were destroyed and the Jews and Christians were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
21. Arabs began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1964 only, on the initiative of Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat. The idea became popular Arab propaganda tool after Israel re-captured Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the defensive 6-Day War of 1967,
22. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, Arab-Palestinians is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel.
23. Arab refugees INTENTIONALLY were not absorbed or integrated by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9 percent of the Middle East landmass. They are kept as virtual prisoners by the Arab power brokers with misplaced hatred for Jews and Western democracy.
24. There is only one Jewish state. There are 60 Muslim countries, including 22 Arab nations.
25. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
26. Pan-Arabism or the doctrine of Muslim Caliphate declares that all land that used to belong to Muslims must be returned to them. Thus, Spain, for example, must eventually be re-conquered.
2006-11-21 07:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
YES
2006-11-20 10:24:08 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋