What are your thoughts on Israel and Palestine?

Question

Just wondering what people's thoughts are. I have always kind of supported Isreal based on the belief that Jews should have a home country based on what happened during WWII. I have friends that argue that it would be like the Native Americans saying we want our land back and fighting over it hundreds of years later.
I am certianly no expert in the conflict, nor do I pretend to understand why people would fight so hard over a small strip of what appears to be sand........

Answer 1

I am sorry,but based on the "belief that Jews should have a home country based on what happened during WWII",we should have give the gypsies a country too,since they too were victims of the same Holocaust...
Israel shouldn't have been created on a land that Arabs were living for hundreds of years...If they really wanted a country for the Jews it should have been created on a land that had no population.You don't displace millions of people just because the Jews suffered during the WW2...Why punish the Palestinians for what happened to the Jews?

Answer 2

Well don't we have the British Empire to thank.
Jews did live in the area including Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq 3000 years ago..
Well .. many ethnic groups wer displaced over all these centuries.. it doesn't give anyone the right to claim a land their ancestors used to live in..
But - and for sake of their own benefits alone - the British signed a contract.. giving a whole country to others. They didn't just do that in Palestine .. Look at how the British split India and Pakistan.. leaving this tiny spot inbetween to always be cause for their feud.. Same between Egypt and Sudan, Iraq and the gulf states.. and in many African countries. Intentionally, the world super power at the beginning of the 20th century made a new world order and a new world map.. placing seeds of trouble so that these countries never fully prosper.. see what happened in Rwanda.. in Yoguslavia..
The new Super Power today is doing the same thing..

Answer 3

This is a difficult issue for the US to address with moral authority. Colonists from England fleeing King George occupied land that was occupied by what are now refered to as Native Americans. Then when these native people objected the Colonists started wars with them and subsequently moved them to remote locations of little value. Jews who fled Europe during and after WWII occupied what was their historical land but which they hadn't occupied in any significant way for centuries. When the native peoples in that area objected the Jews started wars and relegated them to certain areas.

It seems to me that Israel should be allowed to exist but only if Palestine is allowed to exist as a free and independent country. The US can help this happen by giving up the silly idea that anything Israel does is okay and anything Palestinians do is "provocative." I have also felt for a long time that the US needs to tell Israel that unless they figure out how to get along with their neighbors the money and military supplies we send them stops. I think we'd be amazed at how quickly Israel figured out how to "play nice" if they thought all those millions in aid were about to dry up and they'd have to face their Arab neighbors alone. I realize that the problems of that area cannot be blamed solely on Israel but as the region's superpower Israel alone has the ability to end this or keep it going.

Answer 4

The only certainty is that it is a terrible human tragedy for all involved. I agree that the Jewish peopl needed a home land. After the terrible suffering they endured after the second world war the time seemed right. However, to forcefully remove an entire people from their cities and homes giving them no place to live seems nothing short of criminal. I can understand the perpective of the Israelis, but I can understand just as well the feelings of those who had their lives ripped apart by more powerful nations and were left with no home, no livlyhood and no hope for the future.

It seems that the best answer to atone for the crimes against the Jewish people may not have been to commit a crime against the Palestinian people.

Answer 5

I can understand both sides: the country belonged to the jews in former times. After WWII they needed a place to stay. But imagine - you are sitting in your own house with your family - watching TV. Suddenly soldiers walk into your living room with a couple of strangers telling you: half of the living room plus the backyard are not yours anymore but will from now on belong to the newly arrived strangers. They had owned the country 300 years ago. And by the way: we will now put a fence in your living room. Sad that the TV set is on the wrong side... bye bye...

Both Israelis and Palestines need to find a way of living together and forget about the past.

Answer 6

I sympathize with Israel. i'm an evangelical Christian and have faith that God gave the Jewish human beings call to the land in perpetuity. i'm an American of Anglo-Scottish descent. different motives I sympathize with Israel. a million. They embody many Western civilization values and ideology. 2. they seem to be a sturdy best buddy in a many times unfavorable area - the hostility could be there despite if Israel replaced into no longer because of the fact we are all infidels to Muslims besides. 3. They fought for and gained the land regardless of the percentages against them. I do have faith that the victor would desire to get the spoils. 4. They deserve a land they are able to call their own and shelter to maintain something of the international from abusing them because it had for terribly almost 1900 years because of the fact the Diaspora and preferable as much as the Holocaust. 5. Palestine isn't a real usa nor a real human beings - they are culturally vague from the different Arab. 6. i like underdogs and six million Jews as against a million billion Muslims and probable approximately 3 billion anti-Semites international huge is the main suitable underdog tale. 7. Islam is the 2d fabulous probability to freedom and Western civilization that i understand of (purple China being the 1st) and something undesirable for Islam is physically powerful for the west. definite, i'm biased and that i desire to proceed to be that way in this situation for a protracted, long term.

Answer 7

palestine is a poor free country that suddenly found some strangers that have no country....deciding to have a place in palestine for themselves.
ok jews should have a country but i think theres another way than killing more than 100 000 children and women
just answer me this question :
if they need a country why should the palestinians pay ???

Answer 8

One of the problems is that Israeli's keep grabbing more land.

Good article: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/27/israels_land_rights_problem/

Answer 9

I support Isreal because of my Christiaan faith that came through them.

Answer 10

They both need to knock off the crap