All right, to whom does the land of Palestine/Israel belong??

Question

The so-called Palestinians, or us the JEWS????

Answer 1

the jews forever!

Answer 2

To answer your question straight, the people with a legal claim are the Palestinians. Israel was founded on a series of terrorist acts, the most infamous being the Christmas day bombing of the star of David Hotel.

The problem is this doesn't solve the problem. I think both Israel and Palestine should be removed and a new state (call it Eden) should be created in it's place. In this new country, it is no longer necessary to be Jewish to be a citizen. Both Muslims and Jews are given equal status.

Ha-mas and Hezbollah are disarmed and the Israel Defence Force disbanded. Each contributes personnel to a new army and police force to defend and police the new country.

Also have a new constitution written to enshrine the rights of each citizen and fresh elections for a government of the people.

One can not go back to 1948 and remove the Jewish population no more then the current situation should be allowed to continue. The Jewish people should renounce the claim to be the rightful and only people of this land and the Palestinians should accept the Jews as their brothers.

Enough killing has taken place in this the holy land, that both sides should draw a line in the sand say sorry for the wrongs and try to share the land together as humans. Such that Muslim and Jewish kids can play in the same park. Jewish and Muslim policemen can keep the same city safe together. So a Mosque and a Synagogue can be on the same block.

I don't care who is to blame or who started it, aren't you sick and tired of all the hate and killing. Don't you want peace?

Answer 3

I would say the Palestinians,it stopped belonging to the Jews a long time ago when the Romans still ruled most of Europe.The Palestinian claim to the land is much more valid in my view.
And Smiley yes I would say the Native Americans,Maoris and Australians have more right to North and South America,Australia and New Zealand than the newer arrivals do but unlike the Palestinians they are not being persecuted by the newcomers-well not any more.

Answer 4

According to the Torah (also the OT of the xtian bible), G-d gave the land of Caanan to the Israelites for all eternity. Since the Koran is mainly a corruption of the Torah anyway, it should contain the same statement, although Mohommed did change a number of things in order to claim authorship.
Therefore, to believers in G-d, the land MUST belong to the Jews as an inheritance.

In any case, the land that is now Israel was a mixture of desert and swamp before the modern state of Israel started. The Arabs (so-called palestinians, although there never was an official land called Palestine) had no interest in it al all. Once the jews were installed, the Arabs wanted to take over simply to kill the Jews. today, having seen the improvements made by the Jews (by sheer hard work), the Arabs are even more determined to steal the land as it would avoid them having to do any work on their own lands.
Here's hoping that the Temple is rebuilt soon on its original site. Then the Jews will have marked the land as theirs for ever.

Answer 5

It's changed hands many times over the past 2000 years, but most recently the Palestinians.

The land was "bought" (at gunpoint) by the british post world war 2 and the isrealis have been gradually annexing more and more thru murder and terror tactics ever since.

Interesting side note: A large proportion of Jewish settlers taking over the land, arming themselves and taking pot-shots at the Palestinians are in fact....Americans!

Answer 6

It depends on who you ask, and there really is no just solution. Anyone who would advocate giving the land back to the Palestinians because they were there first must also advocate giving back all of North America, much of South America, and most of Australia. Since I enjoy living here in North America, I'm not prepared to advocate giving the land back to the former residents.

A great injustice was done against the Palestinian people who were evicted from their land, but the Quran says, (and I paraphrase) Allah will ask, why were you unhappy, and the man will say "because I was oppressed" and Allah will say to him was the whole world not big enough to move away from an oppressor? It would be a second injustice to forcibly evict the current residents, the Israelis.

In my opinion, the most fair thing to do would be for the government of Israel to purchase land suitable for sustainable living in neighboring countries, and donate parcels of that land to displaced Palestinians. Of course, this solution would require that the Palestinians do not have so much attachment to place that they would endure suffering when given the option to be free from it, and it would also require that one or more neighboring countries or citizens of those countries be willing to sell the land.

Honestly, since the terrorist attacks by the government of Israel against the population of Lebanon last summer, I'm not a big fan of them, but I'm trying to think rationally and fairly, and arrive at a compromise that everyone can agree to.

Answer 7

Palestine and Israel are now 2 separate countries.
Israel used to be Palestine, but the territory the Jewish people were allowed to annexe, with dubious legality, following the 2nd world war, is now considered a sovereign state.
The state of Israel makes extended claims upon what is left to the Palestinian people, at it is, frankly, becoming nauseating that those otherwise great people stoop so low.

Answer 8

It was ancient Jewish land in the hands of Ottomans. I am not against the Palestinians as a country, but let me put it this way. LOTS of native tribes in North America lost their land to the white people. The Cherokee were marched off their land, against a court order to leave it alone. The President chose to do this. They lost their housing, land, livelihood, most of their agricultural settlements, their personal dignity, etc. Thirty-five percent of them died. This was wrong.

Recently in the nineties, they applied to the U.S. government to get it back and were allowed self-government. They have regrouped to get back what remains of their culture. This is only fair.

However, the Palestinians were offered a country and rejected it. Then they turned around and attacked a victimized group of people never really accepted in Europe, like the Gypsies, and tried to force them off their legally acquired land. They had to pay and apply to get their own land. If you decide to refuse your own country, then attack another illegally, backed by Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, that is not only wrong, it is discriminatory, a form of land theft, and colonialist. It is wrong.

It also negates any claim of the right of return. I am in favour of improving conditions in these countries with Palestinian refugees, and why does the Arab leadership of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon spend more time fighting the Israelis and complaining about Palestine than on improving the conditions of their refugee population? I don't have a problem with their getting Western aid, legal status, some lands put aside for them with regional autonomy, minority rights to accommodate religion and language, etc. That isn't the fault of Israel. It just isn't. It is not their problem. Maybe it is a joint Western-Arab problem, but not Israel's.

Answer 9

The Sephardic Jews and Palestinians should each get their own separate parts. Fake Jews (Ashkenazi Jews) have no ties to the area and should leave.

Answer 10

The Palestinians. The Jew rats stole the land, and now they say they have some "ancestral" rights over it. If Ancestral rights were true, we'd have to give back America to the Brits and they'd give it to the Natives. Only reason the Jew rats have the land is because they had enough influence with the UN to have that land stolen and given to them after the second world war.

Answer 11

NEITHER...


ITS A PIECE OF DIRT THAT SHOULD BE OPEN FOR BOTH.

No tradtional ownership...


if palestinians and jews want to fight over it , it should be nuked and then neither have it.

Or both kicked off and only nicey people who all get alone and are nice to each other get to stay including palestians and jews but only if they are nice to gays and girls and have no honour killings or lording it over others