extremists that move there just to fulfill some sort of immoral take over of the middle east?
I think it might be.
2006-12-28 17:06:05 · 8 answers · asked by BigPappa 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Uh oh, the first answerer is a Jew hater, even Muslim politicians use the term "Zionists" to refer to extremist Jews.
2006-12-28 17:10:24 · update #1
And here, I thought this question reflected my knowledge or the state of Israel, enlighten me OH GREAT RROSSORR
2006-12-28 17:27:41 · update #2
I do not believe holding the country together should be a problem for the Israeli government, even if the country becomes more extreme, s long as they maintain the "us versus them" mentality and continue to view Arabs as a swarming sea of blinded-by-hate fanatics that are only waiting for the first chance to kill a Jew.
As long as the majority of the Israeli public continues to think like this, then they will stand behind their government and its aggressive military policies. They will continue to view their military as their only "protection" against those "crazy" Arabs.
Now please don't take these comments as exonerating the Arab public, but to answer your question i will only focus on Israel.
I will pass judgment and say this act is immoral or this is right, but the world should recognize that when the Jews arrived in Palestine, there were people already living there, it was not an empty plot of land. Some of the arriving Jews were escaping prosecution, but all were, like you say, fulfilling some millenia old religious prophecy about a homeland.
Now, i don't think migrating to Palestine in itself should be a problem, as long as the rights of the native population would have been respected. But to disregard and dehumanize the Palestinian people was, and continues to be, a great tragedy and mistake. No amount of preaching or biblical quotes will correct this. The incredible suffering by the Jews as a result of the holocaust and the guilt felt by the rest of the world for letting it happen should not be used as a tool to garner support for Israel and should most certainly not be used as a weapon against the Palestinian people.
I don't know that Jews aim to "take over the Middle East", but the state of Israel has done a good job of inflaming the whole Middle East.
It really doesn't matter if "Jews" lived in this particular area of the world a couple of thousand years ago or not, or whether this or that "religious text" promises Jews this piece of land, because there were other people living on this piece of land. It also doesn't matter if the Palestinians are the Canaanites or not, or whether the "Arabs" arrived after the Jews. This is all "useless" historical debating that has no bearing on the present and the current situation on the ground.
There are thousands upon thousands of Palestinians who were born in "Palestine" and remember growing up there, remember their homes and their schools. Many of them still have the keys to the homes they were forced to leave behind. When the Jews began arriving in Palestine, did any one of them have such immediate and concrete connections to the land there, except the above mentioned religious sentiments?
If Israel is basing its existence on some religious prophecy or promise, then why can't Arabs (the Muslim ones) base their defence of their lands on the same religious principles? The tactics used by some Palestinian groups, after all, are not that different than those used by some of the Jewish groups prior to the creation of Israel.
2006-12-28 20:31:49 · answer #1 · answered by Mohamed K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Has anyone noticed that this guy asks questions that stir controversy? Who really knows why "you" guys have been fighting for centuries. I don't think it'll ever end till Jesus comes back, or the Isrealies launch the nukes, whichever comes first. I don't believe they claim to be nuclear, but don't bet that they're not.
If the middle east is so awesome and worth fighting over, why don't you guys go back to the desert and get the hell out of my country. i am sick of hearing it. I'd have already melted the place it I were in charge, right, wrong, or otherwise...If it's the end of the world, at least it was on my terms, not someone elses.
2006-12-29 01:26:19 · answer #2 · answered by Curious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't always agree with the US taking the part of Israel but Israel does provide about the only buffer zone in the Middle East that does not hate the West. Not sure what to do about Israel but also not sure we should do anything.
2006-12-29 01:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Israel has always attracted extremists. They were the sort of people who founded the state of Israel.
2006-12-29 02:00:00 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the whole purpose of the Zionist movement is the immoral takeover of the Middle East. The ancestors of these European Jews moved away from the middle east of their own accord. nobody mentions that!
2006-12-29 01:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Israel was a country we gave to the Jews because we felt sorry for them. We took land from others just to house the Jews. We just need to stop defending them and let them duke it out.
2006-12-29 01:10:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
over the course of history, the muslims have been wanting jews dead, and so they rocket Israel...and all of a suddent Israel is an evil country invading for no reason?
read a book you morons
2006-12-29 01:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by rrossorr 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Israelis are immoral extremists. At least, that's what I'd call a country that murders and invades its neighbors without cause.
2006-12-29 01:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by m. b 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋