There are 22 Arab countries, and 55 Muslim countries. The Israelis are trying to preserve the ONE Jewish state.
What do YOU think of that??????
2007-03-22 17:14:08
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answered by Anonymous
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You are making something religious which isn't. European Jews began re-arriving in the area again in the 1820s. They settled in Safed and Jerusalem. They learned Arabic. They were naturalized Ottoman citizens. They were helped in starting dye workshops and textile factories by the arabs, who had discovered that lime stone was a great dye stabilizer; and there textile shops sold the goods to europe before the Safed Earthquake destroyed everything and the Safed group moved to Jerusalem which was poorer.
In the 1850s Zionism was invented by Theadore Herzl. It was simply the Jewish version of Nationalism, a popular political theory of the time that said ethnicity is the primary identifier of a Country, and every ethnic group has a right to their own country.
The first wave of Zionist immigrants arrived in 1880s and 1890s. Unlike the earlier settlers, they did not just want to live there, they wanted to control it and make a country.
That's when the fight began. It's not a religious fight. The first settlers were religious and had 60 years of peace. The others were not and started a fight.
If you want to say Israel is good, that is great. If you want to say it's bad, also okay if you have a real reason. But you should not imagine the conflict is a religious one.
You also assume there are not Palestinian Jews. You are incorrect. There are 12,000 Palestinian Jews, recognized as Palestinian by the PLO National Charter, the de facto constitution of the Palestinian Authority, which is a secular political entity. It recognizes Jews born in the region before 1900 and their patralineal descendants as Palestinians with full rights.
The very first person to ever become a naturalized Palestinian was a Jew, in 1977. He served in the Arafat cabinet until Arafat's death. That Cabinet also had 2 Christians and an Agnostic.
In Israel there are a majority Jews with citizenship, and Christian and Muslim minorities. The Palestinians are made up of a Muslim majority with a Christian and Jewish minority.
To make the conflict about religion in your head confuses the point and will only lead to it lasting longer because the real issues are not discussed.
2007-03-22 23:37:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Asking Such A Question Is Totally Absurd , I Don't Think You're Assuming That In The End One Will Prevail... This is not the right way to stop violence or revive the ongoing yet stumbling peace process. Let me judge things by your point of view : if jews were right all arabs should be eliminated .... and if arabs were right : all jews should eliminated and as an arab myself i find this totally absurd and unacceptable .... so if you were asking who's going to survive my answer is this : the guy with the biggest gun .... iam sure if everyone thinks that way we will soon end up having a huge wasteland called the middle east... I believe your question should be : are arabs and jews really willing to end this silly conflict that only the innocent ones are paying for .. i wont blame all the israelis or the arabs who attack each other because they lost someone they loved or knew in a blast or an air raid .... but yet again who am i to argue ,,, take a quick look at chatrooms and forums and you'll see the hate that seduces us to slay each otha ....
2007-03-24 04:14:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Jews are people who follow Judaism.
Jews can be Arabs, and the ones in so called "Israel" are Arabs.
But i don't think that the "Jews" should have it if they keep treating the poor Palestinians like the way they do now.
If they changed and actually helped them for once, then i wouldn't mind.
You forgot that the Jew lost the land, because when moses came back with the ten commandments he saw all the Jews worshiping a golden cow.
So the Jew were no long the "Chosen people"
and the lost Israel/Palestine.
2007-03-22 15:01:05
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answered by . 3
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Not brothers. Half brothers. Ishmael's mother was Hagar, who was the slave of Sara, Abraham's legitimate wife.
It was because they couldn't wait on God's timing that Sara gave Hagar to Abraham to have a child.
Later, Sara had Isaac, the true legitimate son of Promise.
Abraham and Sara made a drastic mistake, and the world is still paying for it.
2007-03-22 14:55:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Radical Islam is attempting to convert the entire Western world to Islam.
In the meantime, they are denying the Jews the right to a single Jewish state.
The Jews certainly have such a right. The Muslims are wrong.
2007-03-24 08:14:17
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answered by T J 3
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The Jews are right because God gave them this land . The Arabs have no right to this land at all.
2007-03-22 15:13:34
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answered by G.W. loves winter! 7
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According to Scripture; the Jews are given the land.
According to what I've personally witnessed by being in the Land of Israel; the Jews are more humane & actually work the land.
2007-03-22 14:50:39
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answered by Anonymous
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When the Jews leave Arab territory there will be peace. The Jews are the ones causing all the trouble.
2007-03-22 14:45:34
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answered by drummerofaband 3
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I don't understand it myself.Sons of Abraham yet they don't agree.They are both right.The Jews just got tired of being blowed up.An the Arabs just have been led by bad people.Who have their own agenda.
2007-03-22 14:43:11
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answered by Anonymous
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