Ok, what exactly gives the Israelis the right to a homeland?
They were scattered throughout the world thousands of years ago. Apparently by their god who they must have pissed off royally.
So 1947-48 rolls around and all of a sudden they have a right to a homeland??? How does that work?
Can I claim a right to your house and walk in with a gun and force you out? Or do I need an old dusty set of scrolls where it is "written" that i have a right to your house.
Just asking cause i don't get it.
Please don't get me wrong I don't hate anyone, not in the least bit. So please try and avoid calling me names.
Doesn't peace start with atonement? And in this case would that start with the Israelis? The Arabs were just hanging out riding camels before 1947 living side by side with Jews in the land now called "Israel" Then all of a sudden the Jews (with the help of the Allied powers, who were punishing the Arabs for picking the wrong side in WWII) decided they had a right to a homeland and kicked the Palestinians out of their homes and off their land.
2007-04-01 08:03:27
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Wow, you are asking a lot of questions.
Jimmy Carter wrote whole freakin' book on this....
It's very hard for me not to be biased as a Muslim, but I can say that I don't blame jews or even israelis for the predicament of Palestinians. I blame the government of Israel and it's oppressive, backwards tactics they use.
Many Jewish people did live in what is today modern day Israel. I don't think it's right though, that Jewish people have moved back AND kicked out so many people. I welcome a multicultural Israel..that's what it was thousands of years ago and it is what it should be now. But the oppression of the Israeli government is TRULY heartbreaking, and the lengths that palestinians go to in order to hurt the Israelis back is also heart breaking.
The problem I see though, is that since Israel is an extension of Western power in the Middle East, they can not have a diverse, multi-cultural government which lets all of itc citizens vote and live and work together in peace, because the half of the population that is Arab Muslim will likely react against the Western ideology that supports the idea of Israel, which would lead to a governmental quagmire.
Just my opinion, though.
2007-03-29 10:32:33
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answered by Waiting and Wishing 6
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When the Israelis fled slavery in Egypt. The British set up the colony after WWII for Jews fleeing europe and Russia. Christians support Israel because they are the chosen people and Christ was Jewish. The Middle East doesnt support the Palestinians that's why they're broke, no other Muslim country will take them in, Look it up libs it's a historical fact. The Palestinians would make great Democrats though, they were dancing in the streets with delight on 9-11-01.
2007-03-29 10:32:51
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answered by Armed Civilian 4
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Both have valid arguments.
The country of Israel was formed in the late 1940s when the UN purchased land from the British, as well as several private land-holders, and donated it to create the new country.
The entire region was called Palestine before then.
Most of the area (2/3) became Jordan. 1/3 became Israel.
Anyone living in the region was allowed to move as the new borders were being formed. Those who now call themselves Palestinians chose to stay within the new Israeli borders.
Then, over the next several decades, Israel was attacked by many of its neighbors, and in the resulting conflict, the borders changed slightly as Isreal held territory it captured after being attacked.
2007-03-29 10:30:42
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answered by coragryph 7
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The industrialized west has again decreed that nomadic peoples do not have any rights to the land they roam in. It has been done many times before; we, and the countries of S. and C. America, did it to the American Indians, the Union of S. Africa did it to her indigenous "citizens" etc. Wherever people have developed agriculture and the concept of land as property it has been done.
People with property have more rights than those without it. The concept of "squatters rights" is a transition where by when a family or tribe stops roaming and settles in one place they gain title to the land they "squat on".
The Israelites, when they were Nomads (as they were in early biblical ages), squatted on the lands of the "promised land" as told in the Bible, then according to their prophets God had given them Title to that land. The other tribes in the area had not yet "squatted" and gained title.as far as I know.
The descendents of these people now want the lands their ancestors inhabited. I think they have equally as much right to the land as our citizens have to the homestead lands given them by our early goverment over the American Indians claims to that land. They have title by virtue of a higher decree.
It just has not happened, yet, that the rights of a nomad, gypsy, bushman, homeless American citizen or other indigenous person have been decreed as having as much validity as a person, family or tribe that makes it's living by tilling the soil. It's an attitude, that possesion of wealth infers "nobility"; it is held by the majority of the people of the world and is not necessarily right.
The reason that Israel is in the Middle East where all the Muslims congregate is that that land is Holy. It is where the covenants between "God" and the Jewish people were formed. The trouble is that "God" has formed covenants with Muslims, Christians and Jews concerning the "Holy Lands" and these are contradictory. If you need someone to blame for the trouble there, blame God as He started it all by telling the people involved diffferent things.
2007-03-29 11:37:49
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answered by Mad Mac 7
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The Jews as we know them "people of God" from the Bible were living pretty much around where they ar living now.They are the descendants of Abraham, who promoted the belief that there is only one God who, as from the Bible, created everything.
But since the time of Jesus or/and even before that the Jews and their land Israel has been occupied,colonized and ruled by various empires such as Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Persians, .......... even the Great Britain.
Under such circumstances many Jews learned very earlier to move around for better life and freedom. They kept aways their religion and traditions and believed to be able to come back to they land.-
Like nowadays refugees, Jews worked very hard and helped, supported each other wherever they were. They prospered everywhere they were and in every field to the point of which one Hitler became very jealous of them and decided to get rid of them.
After that, I think, the UN supported the creation of the state of ISRAEL.-
2007-03-29 11:34:50
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answered by Nyaru 2
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Cora.. as it right basically. however he said the palestinians stayed after Israel was formed.
Many of them did not stay. Many went to Kuwait but were kicked out for causing trouble. Then they went to Jordan but again were kicked out for causing trouble. Then they went to Lebanon and there was constant fighting there between teh Lebanese militia and Palestinians.
Many ended up back in Israeli territory as no one wanted them.
2007-03-29 10:44:12
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answered by sociald 7
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Neither is completly in the right. The conflict started after ww2 when Israel was created. The conflict is mostly political because Israel is friendly to the U.S.
2007-03-29 11:06:22
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answered by gforce 2
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Neither are right.
IN very short... and I am leaving out alot of detail here.
After WW2 we looked at the jews and said. " you poor people! Here is a country!"
And we all got together and helped them settle in What is now Isreal. That land was at the time only partially occupied by a nomadic arab people. They didn't really have any borders, they just roamed around. Well after a while the arab countries around isreal got mad that the land had been taken and they ALL ganged up on isreal and attacked.
Isreal fought back and fought back hard. They kicked major butt and actually eneded up defeating several arab countries AND taking even MORE land. Spoils of war I guess. So they encouraged thier citizens to settle in these new areas. West bank, gaza strip, etc.
The arabs still want thier land back. and they are continuing to fight isreal to try and get it back. Isreal is continuing to fight back.
2007-03-29 10:30:59
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answered by Louis G 6
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Israel was formed by UN decree in the aftermath of WWII Mostly as a concession for the holocaust. From here on I advice doing your own research as I guarantee that you are going to get a lot of anti-Israel commentary here.
2007-03-29 10:31:54
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answered by Anonymous
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