Is it best to get Israelis and Palestinians to get married?

Question

I mean, I have been seriously thinking about this idea. There is so much hostility there, I was thinking that the world takes a campaign where both of them can get married, and live happily ever after.

Answer 1

Islamic law forbids the marriage of a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man; and of a Muslim man to any but a "woman of the book" meaning a Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Zoroastrian woman. Whom he is then supposed to convert; and all children would be deemed Muslim.

The penalty for apostasy or blasphemy is death.

Interfaith marriage cannot be performed in Israel. There has been a handful of anomalous cases. http://oznik.com/words/021212.html Some marriages, usually between Jews and Christians, occur abroad and are recognized in Israel. The current political climate makes intermarriage between Muslim and Jew extremely rare: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~imran/marrynm.txt Some are immigrants: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/188133_comment.php

One notable case is the daughter of an Israeli hero, Agnon, who converted to Islam to marry a Muslim, and in later life converted back: http://english.aad-online.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1165

As Christian Palestinians are emigrating from Palestine (as Christians also are from Lebanon, and throughout the Middle East) iin large numbers, the demographics of the area are changing. Christians, but far less frequently Muslims, from those areas integrate and assimilate and intermarry in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia.

"The Jews and Arabs should settle their disputes in the true spirit of Christian charity." -- Sen. Alexander Wiley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wiley

Answer 2

God told Abraham and Sarah, you are going to have a baby.
Sarah laughed. I'm to old. So she decieded to speed the process
up by getting her maid to have the baby by her husband, Then
sarah got pregnant , jealousy took its course and sarah sent
the maid away. The Israelis and Palestinians are half brothers
and sisters and have fought ever since. Good idea though.

Answer 3

good morning! like u never though about that part of the world until now, dhuh! and now that you have, that all you can think of? the arabs countries feel bad they lost their jews, and that they went and made a house of their own, and did it well. so they waste time antagonising the israelis who have a short fuse, who respond unkindly, and from there it just goes on and on.

the arabs should realise, the jews are not going back. they lost their chance to treat them like guests, and they definatly will not take away their new house.

Answer 4

We must bear in mind that Arabs do not think the way we do, so their conclusions are not rational ones. And their hate for a Jewish state far exceeds their desire to have another Arab state for their own.

Thus, when the Jews left them hothouses in Gaza, so that the Arabs could prosper economically, the Arabs chose to dismantle the hothouses for scrap. And to turn the pipes into launchers for the Qassam rockets. And to dwell in poverty because they don't have the hothouses to provide income.

Hard to believe!

"Palestinians" are an Arab people no one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of propaganda. As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948--that is, before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis--the only persons known as "Palestinians" were Jews, with the Arabs much preferring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation.

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."

"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." - Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937

Who are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War 1 when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund.

Whether or not she chooses to exercise the right, Israel owns the West Bank by right of conquest. Before 1967, the last previous legal owner was the Ottoman Empire. And Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, has never asked for it back.

The conflict will be settled only by a decisive and overwhelming military victory of Israel over the Arabs. And the Arabs will beg for peace.

Answer 5

Paul Wolfowitz was dating a Muslim. I heard they got married, but I'm not sure. Seems like they're doing pretty well.

Answer 6

Intermarriage is not possible because the two clans have great hostility to each other.