Somehow I didn't see the huge moderate Muslim community answer this question....I'll ask it in another

Question

way in case I didn't make it clear.....

Assuming that there will be a second Palestinian State...and there will be......

What should happen to the Jews who owned %80 of the land in Israel before it was Israel?

What will happen to the Western Wall? Will others be permitted access? They weren't when you controlled it the last time.

What will happen with the %50 of the refugee community that has no land claims to Israel?

If you'd like another question.....where do you propose the Jews who will be displaced go? Just as you claim that it isn;t your fault that we were removed from your lands, it isn't a 5 year old Jews fault that you were removed from them.

I want concrete ideas on how Islam can make a neighbor that will have a peaceful coexistance with Israel.

If there is a majority moderate Muslim community, this shouldn;t be a problem. There are plenty of you that answer other questions.

By the way...the settler policy was wrong, immoral, and I have no problem

with those people being displaced.

Here's your chance moderate Islam.....what will you do?

For Abdul....that was an excellent and fair answer. I have no problem...NONE...with sacrificing the settlers. What they did was wrong. They also used their children as pawns. Their rationalle was that the Arabs used their children. I condemned it with the arabs...I condemn it with us.

In concrete answer to one statement you made....there is in FACT a Palestine. There has been for 6 decades. It's called Jordan.

Answer 1

It all depends on the nature of the moderate Islam. It doesn't matter how moderate the Islam is, if it has an element of Palestinian nationalism in it, the Israelis won't come off very well.

Ideally, Jews would be allowed access to the Western Wall. The settlers would be forced to return to Israel or to become residents of the Palestinian state and subject to it's laws. The government would crack down on Islamist terrorism. The Palestinian state would, like Jordan and Egypt, have normalised relationships with Israel.

But as I say, this is the ideal situation. Given the current popularity of Hamas, this is unfortunately rather unlikely.

PS: Second Palestinian state? The Palestinians have never had their own state in their entire history.

Answer 2

The first thing to make clear is that whatever else one wishes to say about the West Bank or Gaza, the word "occupation" is a tendentious, and cruel, misnomer. What it seeks to imply, what it seeks to implant in the minds of men, is clear: Israel has no rights here. This is nonsense. This is the very reverse of the truth. Read the Mandate, and the Preamble to the Mandate, for Palestine. Then read the records of the Mandates Commission -- and especially how they reacted when the British unilaterally announced that the terms of the mandate would not be applied to Eastern Palestine -- that is, the consolation prize given to Abdullah of the Emirate of Transjordan.

At present, the Hisb'Allah terror group has taken credit for most attacks on Isreal. In some of them they are joined by other Muslim terrorist groups, such as El Aqsa Brigades, which is part of the Fatah group to which the "President" of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas ("Abu Mazen") belongs.

Answer 3

Aaron, sorry, but which huge moderate muslim community were you referring to? I'm looking for it, too. I'm told it exists all the time, but I haven't been able to track it down for the past 20 years. Moderate Islam seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Moderate Islamic theology and culture is especially on the decline now that even more trouble has been brought to Muslim homelands. I don't see this huge community you speak of, but as a theologian, I am always on the lookout to see how moderate Muslim thought can make its way into mainstream Islam today.

Answer 4

Well, I'm not a Muslim, but you know the answer, don't you?

There are no answers that don't cause suffering to someone. But you can't allow one group to suffer just to keep another group from suffering.

On the other hand, people who are oppressed deserve freedom.

Answer 5

If you really want an answer, why don't you find a Muslim webpage with a message board and ask there. Somehow I don't think there are a lot of Muslims hanging out at Yahoo answers

Answer 6

This is what moderate Islam will do:

Ask you for proof, and then answer you

because 80 percent of the land in Palistine weren't for jews. Isreal can exist, but their people should be on unstolen land.

Answer 7

Peaceful coexistence is not brotherhood... can't you guys strive for something higher, and settle for the lessor?

Answer 8

i have no idea wat ur question is, but israel cant just come to palestine and take over the country!