Does the mainstream media make out Israel and Palestine seem much more worse than it actually is?

Question

We all know how the news is, especially with their love for negative and depressing news. I'm sure it's bad over there, but is it really as bad as they say? It's dangerous, c'mon, it's not that dangerous? Fear, c'mon, isn't fear going a bit overboard? I'm sure that there must be Israelis and Palestinians living over there that get along together just fine with eachother right? I would even bet that there are Israelis and Palestinians there that are good friends and their children all play with eachother right? I'm sure that probally even most people on both sides get along together just fine and find the whole thing thing just stupid right? I'm sure that there are even Israelis over there that are against their government and Palestinians that are against theirs right?

Answer 1

There are a lot of people there who get along fine. Unfortunately all it takes is one extremist with an IED to blow away a whole busload of people who are peacefully co-commuting.

Answer 2

The whole "Palestinian People" is made up, just to try to eliminate Israel. The Land of Israel is the biblical home of the Jewish People, and the Jewish People have maintained a presence there continuously.

If you were naive enough to believe what you hear on the news and media, you would think there is an entity called a "Palestinian people," who lived in a "country/state/area" called Palestine since Canaanite/Biblical/Muslim times. You would almost believe that the Israelis occupied "Palestine" in 1967. And you might even think that the Palestinians want the occupiers out of their land. And of course, you might feel, they are entitled to do whatever it takes to get their land back. No? No. Not at all, Here are the facts.

Who are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War I when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund.

What is Palestine? When the Romans conquered Judea, they renamed it Palestine. Since then, no occupying power ever made it an independent state or established a capital in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the province of Syria.

After World War I, the area was mandated to Britain to establish a Jewish national home. Instead, in 1922, Britain split off 75% of Palestine to establish the Emirate of Transjordan, as a throne for the Arabian Hashemite family.

The UN decided to split the remaining 25% of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. In 1948, five Arab armies attacked the newborn State of Israel. Transjordan annexed the area intended for an Arab state, and renamed itself the Kingdom of Jordan, calling the annexed area the West Bank. Egypt took over Gaza. No Arab suggested making the West Bank and/or Gaza into yet another Arab state until 1967, when Israel was again attacked by the Arabs and took these areas.

Whether or not she chooses to exercise the right, Israel owns the West Bank by right of conquest and by biblical rights. Before 1967, the last previous legal owner was the Ottoman Empire. And Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, has never asked for it back.


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Answer 3

One of the most popular lies--which has become universally accepted as if it were an indisputable truth--is the myth about Jerusalem being the third sacred place to Islam. It is quite rare to hear the honest truth, that Jerusalem is the First and Only Holiest place to Judaism!

As a matter of fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned at all in the Qurab, and Muhammad had never been there. (Perhaps he did not even know about the existence of Jerusalem!)

The tale about his dream flight has been related with Jerusalem in a very recent time for political strategy purposes.

The Islamic claim to the Temple Mount is very recent. Jerusalem's role as "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" in mainstream Islamic writings does not precede the 1930s. It was created by the grand mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.

Most of the problems surrounding Jerusalem can be traced to two areas of dispute: the political area that asks Jerusalem to be the capital of both Israel and the hypothetic Palestine; the other and most contentious problem is the holiness of Temple Mount to both Judaism and Islam.

The role Jerusalem has in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures is well known and not open to debate; however, there are varying opinions on the holiness of Jerusalem, specifically the ,Temple Mount to Islam.

Many if not most opinions that counter Islam's claim point out the Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran and did not occupy any special role in Islam until recent political exigencies transformed Jerusalem into Islam's "third holy site". This falsehood was created by the grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini.

The mufti knew that nationalist slogans alone would not succeed in uniting the masses against arriving Jewish refugees; he therefore turned the struggle into a religious conflict. He addressed the masses clearly, calling for a holy war. Since the moment when he was appointed to the position of mufti, Haj Amin worked vigorously to raise Jerusalem's status as an Islamic holy center.

The Islamic claim to Jerusalem is false - There were no mosques in Jerusalem in 632 at the death of Muhammad. Jerusalem was then a Christian-occupied city.

So if one takes the facts into account, and not the myths, the solution is for Israel to remain the Jewish homeland, while the Arabs have 22 states of their own.

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Answer 4

The Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" do so in order to persuade a misinformed world that they are a distinct nationality and that "Palestine" is their ancestral homeland. But they are no distinct nationality at all. They are the same - in language, custom, and tribal and family ties - as the Arabs of Syria, Jordan, and beyond. There is no more difference between the "Palestinians" and the other Arabs of those countries than there is between, say, the citizens of Minnesota and those of Wisconsin.

What's more, many of the "Palestinians", or their immediate ancestors, came to the area attracted by the prosperity created by the Jews, in what previously had been pretty much of a wasteland.


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Answer 5

The land that God blessed the chosen with has been long sought after for many years.I wished I had time to do a step by step lesson but time is passing.Not only does the Palestinians want the Holy Land,but under-cover there are other lands with the same thoughts in mind.One of the reasons that the USA are so rich and her power remains so great lays within her support and aid to Israel.This is the land that God said shall forever be blessed.Abraham's seed remember?Come on some-body think.The fight over Israel is for a reason that is hid to many.

Answer 6

If you look close enough at the vehicles they actually have California license plates

Answer 7

The present Arabic name of Jerusalem is "Al-Quds"... but "Al-Quds" is an abbreviation for "The Jewish Temple"!

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Answer 8

It's worse than you can imagine