2007-03-12 13:45:36 · 15 answers · asked by Kingo 2 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
I mean like invite the next Palestinian you meet for dinner in your house, or offer the next Palestinian you see walking a rid to his destination, offer them food donations...etc...Common just be nice for one day..maybe they will reciprocate?
2007-03-12 13:55:47 · update #1
I mean like invite the next Palestinian you meet for dinner in your house, or offer the next Palestinian you see walking a ride to his destination, offer them food donations...etc...Common just be nice for one day..maybe they will reciprocate?
2007-03-12 13:56:09 · update #2
I would do those things if I could be certain that they don't have a bomb belt or some other concealed weapon with which they could kill me. I do, however, have many Israeli Arab friends who I get along fine with. So it would be nice if you stopped making groundless insinuations about Israelis.
2007-03-13 02:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Jews and "Palestinians" (they were only arabs then) were not friends before 1948. The arabs in the area rose up to arms well before the founding of the state, and even before the UN declaration forming Israel. The arabs befriended the Jews while they were a small and weak minority. As soon as the tables turned, they attempted to exert dominance. Read up on the massacres of 1929 etc. Now let me tell you a story. Once upon I went to a children's hospital to visit sick children in Jerusalem. I was told that there was a Palestinian child there (before you ask, the answer is no, not wounded by Israeli soldiers). I went to the room and offered the child a lollipop. Instead of being gracious or greedy, as any other child I ever met has been, he threw the lollipop at my feet. Now those of you who know children know that children do not throw candy away except under strong emotion. This kid was a toddler; even if something had happened to him personally by the hands of Israelis, there is no way he could have internalized this to hate all Israelis hands down without some outside influence. And that's an if. To me this proves that their culture is spreading hate. And this was a child being helped by Israel, being treated in an Israeli hospital. So I answer you, yes Israelis can be nice to Palestinians. It doesn't seem to change anything though, and instead is a rather enlightening experience.
2007-03-13 04:23:50 · answer #2 · answered by Michael J 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Would you invite someone who hates you over for dinner?
By the way, ever since we pulled out of Gaza, we've gotten many many more rockets fired at us. It's simple statistics. We get at least 2 a month fired towards Ashkelon+Ashdod and the northern part of the Negev.
Regarding Israeli-Arabs: Some side with the Palestinians, and those are usually the people who help bring about terrorist attacks. Some are more integrated into Israeli culture and there are good relationships between us. For example, my mother's Arab friend from work invited her to her son's wedding.
*There were ok relationships between Arabs and Jews until those three massacres (1920-21, 1929, 1936-39). in 1929, Hevron's Jews didn't want young Jewish troops to protect them- just in case- because they though their Arab neighbors would be offended just at the thought.
2007-03-15 03:05:39 · answer #3 · answered by Gavriella B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Can the Palestinians stop the suicide bombings for a change? What about the violence and hatred that is bred into the minds of Palestinians at an early age? This must be a two way street. I am not Israeli but if I were, I would be angry at people always attacking me because they feel like it.
2007-03-14 10:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by 14 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being nice. This happens all the time -- people to people. When they get a chance, not only are Israelis nice to Palestinians, but Palestinians, in general, are nice to Israelis.
The problem is [a] not getting enough opportunities to practice niceness, and [b] finding it hard to overcome the natural desire to survive. If one (for a [b] example) offers a ride to the other, one might not survive the trip. He or she might be dead B4 the end of the ride. Because of experience, it's hard to overcome this fear to offer rides. There may never be peace, but we/they have to keep trying.
2007-03-15 04:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can the Palestinians be nice to the Israelis for a change? Yeah, it works both ways!
to t_maia2000...there's no point for us to live on other planets now. Apartheid is over, we live together now.
2007-03-12 22:41:40 · answer #6 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You mean, like finally accept the UN resolution made in 1948 that established 2 independent states, an Israeli and a Palestinian one? Stop stealing the water from the West Bank? Pay compensation to the Palestinians for the land and the estates that Israeli citizens have appropriated?
EDIT: To answer the qestions adressed by your additional details: No. There has been to much bad blood between these two groups. There are some peace projects out there, which have Israelis and Palestinians reach out to each other. There is even one village where there are cross-marriages. But these examples are far and few in between.
The two groups are usually so seperated in their daily lives, that the majority of Israelis meet Palestinians very rarely. Like the Blacks and the Whites in South Africa during the Apartheid, they might as well live on different planets. Palestinians commute into Israel for work when the borders are open, but that is about it.
2007-03-12 13:55:49 · answer #7 · answered by t_maia2000 6 · 2⤊ 7⤋
Yeah, once the Palesinians are nice to the Israelis!!!
(after additional details posted) Oh. Sure, if we know each other. I don't live in Israel, but I'm Jewish and I have plenty of friends who are of the same background as Palestinians, and we get along great! I'd be nice to them, like that.
Anyway, all I want is peace.
2007-03-12 13:52:36 · answer #8 · answered by Joshua Z 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Wishful thinking? The smokescreen of war is what the NWO wants...hate to say this, PEACE IS NOT ON THE MENU.
Read "1984" by GEORGE ORWELL
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
Also the following contains tons of eye opening planned future events
http://www.policestateplanning.com/id19.htm
2007-03-12 13:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by xman77 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Its up to the Israelis. The Israeli political leaders want to keep occupying Palestinian land that was never part of Israel.
2007-03-14 06:28:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋