Why don't Palestinians just up and leave Israel, for the good of the world?

Question

Some much of the world's problems today stem from this one issue, and could be resolved if they just quit acting so childish.

Answer 1

Palestinians are land thieves, they have NO claim on that land because they is NO such thing as a palestinian, they are Jordanians who were kicked out by the King. To all those fools who blame Israel, learn history before you continue making yourself look and sound stupid. If you want real peace in the Middle East, the so called palestinians have to quit.
Are you people this stupid, Israel existed millenia before the first so called palestinian was evber born, will you people ever learn history. Israel has land rights dating back all the way to 2500 BC, palestinians at best can claim their terrirtory rights from 400 AD at the earliest, and they would be less than 2 million that could.

Answer 2

And is this the duty of Palestinians "Only" to think about the good of the world ??? the most powerless country on the planet earth who do not have their own army !!

What about The big powers like Bush , Blair, Israel and others?? Don't you think they also bear some responsibility to do something "good" for the world??

Answer 3

I don't believe that much of the world's problems stem from this...

THIS IS AN EXCUSE THEY USE TO SAY THIS IS WHY THEY DO THINGS... but really, if EITHER the palestinians or israelis left... does anyone think it would be peace in the mideast... or even very much of a slow down?

I don't... they've been wars there for the past 6,000 years... they are very good at finding reasons to fight... no matter who is where and doing what...

Answer 4

The Saudis have been advocating a reasonable solution for a while: a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, borders drawn using the pre-1967 maps. The Right of Return for the Palestinians to be defined as a right to immigrate to the new Palestinian state, not to pre-1948 lands now occupied by Israel.

But until the U.S. is willing to put adequate pressure on Israel to play ball, they have no incentive to do anything but what they're doing - repression of Palestinians and backing the settlers who continue to encroach on PA territory in the West Bank. The Israelis simply don't have the political will to force messianic settlers out of the West Bank - the U.S. will have to threaten them with something substantive (a reduction in military aid, specifically).

As far as the highly distorted views of history I see here and elsewhere:

Yes, there is and was a Palestine. Not a nation-state per se, but a territory in the Ottoman Empire and previous Arab empires, a Mandate under the British after WW2. The people who immigrated there did so a long time ago, and are a mix of Arabs and probably Canaanites, for lack of a better term. Some Franks settled there, too, of course, after the Crusades, and mixed into the population.

The waves of Jewish Zionist immigrants started in the late 19th/early 20th century. There were still Jews living in some cities in Palestine, Jerusalem of course, but also a couple other cities. But these new immigrants were part of groups, organized and funded largely out of Western Europe, but made up mostly of Jews from Eastern Europe and Russia, where the persecution was most intense (prior to the Nazis).

These Zionists came in and bought land in Palestine, mostly from absentee landlords living in other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Difficulties arose immediately: the Palestinians, the tenant farmers, were not exactly pleased to be ejected from lands they had lived on as long as they and their ancestors could remember. And the Jews often misunderstood the terms of sale. For instance, a Turk would sell a patch of land to a Zionist group, but the sale was for the land only, not the olive trees that grew on the land. The olive trees were still owned by the Palestinian farmers. Obviously, these sorts of misunderstandings create tension, often resulting in violence. The violence was often of the more organized sort on the Jewish side: self-defense groups, but as the conflict intensified and the British began to restrict immigration of Jews into Palestine under the Mandate, terrorist organizations as well (the Irgun, the Stern Gang). At least two Israeli PMs were members of these terrorist groups: Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon.

You want to be careful about history you read on the internet, a lot of it is written by folks who have a dog in the fight, so to speak. Some Israeli groups have put out a lot of disinformation about the Palestinians, and some Palestinian interpretations of history are also suspect. So you want to be especially careful about blanket statements such as "there are no Palestinians" - or the nonsense about the Palestinians being Jordanians "kicked out" by the King of Jordan. Let's try to remember that the Palestinians, who are the majority population now in Jordan, were pushed into Jordan by Israeli military action. And oh by the way, the "King" of "Jordan" was put there by the Brits as thanks for helping them during WW1 - the Hashemites who run Jordan were from the Hijaz, and were themselves driven out of Saudi Arabia by Ibn Saud. It's a messy world, and history is important, but doesn't necessarily offer easy policy answers.

Answer 5

Why don't Israelis just up and leave Palestine, for the good of the world?
Some much of the world's problems today stem from this one issue, and could be resolved if they just quit acting so childish

Answer 6

Why don't the Jews just up and leave Israel!?! I bet it's for the same reasons why Palestinians won't!

Its because they have been fighting each other for thousands of years over the same land and the differences in there religious beliefs.

Answer 7

From what i understand Palestinians have been living there for almost 2000 years,until England and America GAVE this land to the Zionists. I hope our western leaders realize that they didn't have this right to give away,defend and commit a Holocaust on someone elses land.

Answer 8

Another question if why is the world kicking back and allowing this brute force to infiltrate all nations when their given intent is to conquer the world and force rad Islam on all?

Right now Israel is being pressured to lay down it's weapons to show they're serious about peace. Leaders in the UN are encouraging Israel to trust these 'jihadists' who will think nothing of doing them under as soon as they get the upper hand. What they don't really take serious themselves in that there are no young, big-eyed virgins awaiting them in la-la land but big-eyed demons.

Answer 9

Are you stupid? Palestine existed before Israel, Israel is just a virus that keeps spreading. So let me rephrase for you: Why don't the Israeli just up and leave Palestine for the good of the world? I mean I would invade you're house and kick you the **** out, how would you feel about that? Would you be childish if you try and take your house back?. Seriously people we weren't born with a brain for nothing.

Answer 10

Amazing! I see questions on here all the time saying the same thing about Israel. They get plenty of agreement, too.

I don't know who these posters are or where they live, but Israel is our ally. And these people creep the heck out of me.

Of course Palestine won't stop. Their goal is to push Israel into the sea.

Answer 11

Some of them did. They went to Kuwait, but Kuwait kicked them out for causing trouble. Then they went to Jordan, but again got kicked out for causing trouble. Then they went to Lebanon, and got in battles with teh Lebanese militia. Eventually then ended up back in Israel.