Are you sick and tired of Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Question

It's as if they're the regular fill when there's no other news. Before it was "1 person dies in car crash", now it's "1 person killed in Israeli-Palestinian conflict". Who cares??? Those people were killing each other since man climbed down from the tree, and they will do so forever.

Do you think the media is using this conflict as a filler? Or are they really interested in it? Is there even a point in being interested in such a boring conflict? Do you have some other opinion about this conflict?

If you answer, please remain neutral. Your answer must not contain words like "but Israelis started it" or "Palestinians are evil"

I think most of you didn't read my question correctly. I said "be neutral"!
I don't want to hear stories how Israelis killed a 13 year old kid or how Palestinians are savages that won't stop fighting. Those same "news" were being told for the last 50 years and you will hardly surprise or convince anyone by retelling them.

The question was: do you think news about this is a filler?

An additional question: don't you think it's weird that, whenever someone dies, it's always women and children? Where are the men?

Answer 1

No, I'm not sick nor tired of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Still too early to get tired.....

Answer 2

They were certainly NOT killing each other, as you say, "since man climbed down from trees"....it began with the creation of the state of Israel.
As you may or may not be aware, Israel was created from the land of Palestine, to be "given" to the Jews as a homeland following WWII. Problem is, there were already Palestinians there. (I often wonder why Germany wasn't given to the Jews, since it was their government that perpetrated the Holocaust.)
So...the Palestinians want their land---or part of it---back, plain and simple. I liken it to the Canadians coming to my home state of Michigan, and saying, "Sorry, it's OURS now. Get out." Well, I'D say, "Not likely!"
What I personally am sick of is the Israelis doing everything in their power to keep the Palestinian people under military rule; unemployed; rationalizing the use of excessive force; unable to travel; and basically, powerless to control their own destinies.
Thank you Sean, for your thoughtful and intelligent comments. The Palestinian people will NEVER roll over and play dead, as the Israeli government would like them to.

Answer 3

I see you miss a lot of news. They don't report it when a dozen or 100 people are killed if they're killed by Israelis.

A little over a year ago, a little 13-year old schoolgirl wandered too near an Israeli guard tower. The guards shot her, she fled in terror, but they hit her and she fell. One of the guards came out of the tower and shot her 13 times to make sure she was dead. It wasn't reported in the LA Times until later, and the headline was something like "Israel apologizes for girl's death" if I remember right (it might have been that they were investigating or something). Nothing about the Israeli guard emptying his gun to make sure a little girl was dead.

Another interesting news summary was one I heard on NPR, during last summer's bombing of Lebanon. If you remember, Hezbollah was accused of using the civilians of south Lebanon as human shields. Human Rights Watch traveled to south Lebanon and investigated human rights abuses, and issued a report.

To summarize, they determined that
- Hezbollah didn't in general use people as human shields,
- that most of the bombing by Israel appeared to have no military value,
- that Israel deliberately targetted civilian infrastructure (a war crime)
- that Israel sometimes appeared to deliberately target civilians.

In the course of their investigation, they visited Qana, where Israel had bombed a home. Reportedly around 58 women and children who had been sleeping in it were killed but HRW found that the number was only 28 women and children. NPR's news summary of the report: HRW had found that only 28 had died in that bombing attack. Nothing about the main points of the report, which said Israel had committed war crimes.

I don't think the media is using it as filler. Dig a little deeper.

Answer 4

Now trying to blame the middle east conflict on the USA is pure stupid.

In the past Communist Russia was supplying the Arab countries during the Cold War should we not blame them too?

After the cold war Syria, Iran, have been doing their best to destablise the Region, Syria especially so it can fill its dream of taking over Southern Lebanon.

The Israelis have constantly offered the hand of friendship to the Arab neighbours only to have it slapped by Muslin Radicals who dream of turning the middle east back in time to the days of the Persian Empire, (long-gone and never coming back).

The situation will only be resolved when the people concerned sit down and talk to each other.

Answer 5

I know that the Israelis are very tired of it, especially while they're frantically trying to shelter from the constant rocket attacks from Gaza that have been going on for several months now.

I feel terribly sorry for both the Israelis and the Palestinians, but the fact remains that on several occasions, the Israelis have extended the olive branch - only to have it thrown back in their faces. The Palestinians support terrorist groups that are dedicated to Israel's destruction - impossible to reason with these groups.

Answer 6

It was tired 30 years ago. In that period of time, there has been no substantial (with the possible exception of the Camp David accords) change in the "issues" or the cast of players, other than some of the antagonists have died of old age.

It is absurd (and in my opinion offensive) that we have daily casualty reports from the region, while it's virtually impossible to find out how many died on American streets the night before. Their problems are their problems, not ours.

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Answer 7

I think it is disgusting how the Jews have treated the Palestinian people forcing them from there family home,s and then saying it,s rightfully theirs as they owned it 2000 years ago,Jews should know better than most, it,s terrible to push people out of there homes,the Americans don,t help by blindly backing these Jewish land snatchers.The Jews show the same disrespect to the Palestinian people that the Nazis showed them.Why does the world just look on as these money hungry swines get away with murder!

Answer 8

With time they going to get their heads knock together by the late Yasser Arafat for kicking him on the butts when he was around back in the past.
Told them to stop fighting.
They don't want.
Give them the Oslo peace accord.
They don't want.
See what happen when he left behind a six billion us dollars question on "What is an x-files" for kicking them back on their butts in time.

Answer 9

#1 there are alot of immigrants there from the US & europe
#2 it says in the Bible that when israel falls Christ will return that is why we are obsessed with their conflict

Answer 10

Since the Americans are responsible for this conflict due to their blind support for Zionist fascism in the region it is only right that they have the carnage caused on their television.