How best to resolve the legacy of 1967 war?

Question

Forty years after Israel's victory over its Arab neighbours, Palestinians and Israelis are still searching for peace. What is the way forward?

On June 5th 1967, Israel launched war against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Egypt in particular had been acting very aggressively towards Israel before the war started; many Israelis felt they needed to fight to ensure survival.

Israel defeated the armies of its Arab neighbours in just six days. It gained vast swathes of territory, control of which is still at issue in stalled peace negotiations. Millions of Palestinians remain stateless. And today they are segregated from their families by Heavy handed tactics used by the Israelis. Collective Punishment is used that punishes all Palestinians, homes are destroyed for roads to be used by only Israelis, or to make a new check point that humiliates the Palestinians who wait for hours to pass through, for work, school, medical reasons & from familiy members.

Answer 1

Israel is built on a stolen land.
Israel everyday proves that no way to deal with Israel only by using force. That's very dangerous when someone feels the most powerful as USA is backing and supporting. Politicians should think what they are going to do if for any reason or suddenly USA is not supporting Israel. When a country is using all kinds of force against all neighbors and original residents of the area, the normal is it'll be one day the weak side. This is the nature of everything. How can they expect the people who suffered the Israeli violence will act then.

Answer 2

Yes, if only the Arab states would have agreed to peace in 1967 in return for all the territory that Israel has just conquered.

Instead three months after the war the Arab states convened the Khartoum Resolution.

which among other things stated the famous three no's

No peace with Israel
No recognition of Israel
No negotiations with Israel

It is kind of hard to make peace with someone that refuses to do so...

It is also kind of hard to turn back the clock.

If only the Arab league would have accepted pre-67 borders for peace after the 67 war.

Answer 3

I'm not sure how worth it it is to answer one of your questions. Your chosen "best answer" to your last question went to someone who implicated that the Jews had a hand in the conspiracy and murder of John F Kennedy. In addition to be very "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"-esque, it shows that your are CLEARLY hugely biased against one side.Further, your failure to even mention terror attacks only reinforces this point.
Since you obviously have some difficulties in the understanding department, as a Jews, I would like to start by stating explicitly that:
1) The Protocols mentioned earlier bear no connection to reality. There is nothing, or virtually nothing, that is true. The only part that is true is that Jews do in fact want people to be judged based on their own abilities and actions and not just by birth (to European nobility, this was considered evil)

2) The Jews had no hand in the murder of John F Kennedy, and if there was in fact a conspiracy, the Jews had no hand in that either.

3) Jews do not kidnap, murder and drain christian or muslim babies of their blood for Passover matzah. Matza is flour and water, leaving it a white/beige color,and not the red one would be expected to find if there was blood in it.

4) The Jews, and Israel in particular, had no hand in 9/11. The United States and Israel did fabricate the whole thing as an excuse to attack the Arab world. I was in NY at the time, and I distinctly remember CNN broadcasting footage of celebrations and candyhandouts to kids in Gaza.

I can add more as the situation demands.

Now to your question. The legacy of 1967 is not all bad. For one, it directly led to peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, two of Israel's three neighbor enemies. For two, it pretty strongly pounded the concept into the pan-Arab head that Israel would not so easily be destroyed. (This by the way is why the Arab world calls it the "setback"). Only with that acceptance can actual peace be achieved. However as you state, the Palestinian issue is still very much in limbo. In short, it seems the best answer is a two-state option, since it is highly unlikely that both parties would coexist peacefully in just one. While it was once well on its way, this solution has been stalled indefinately by the election of Hamas. I know the asker is very pro-palestinian, but it is unacceptable both to Israel and to the world for a terrorist entity bent on the destruction of Israel to be given its own country. As the PA is chosen democratically, Israel and the peace process will have to wait until the Palestinians choose a government devoted to peace. As long as they choose one devoted to war and strife (just look into who exactly is firing those rockets), no peace will be achieved.

Answer 4

it could be remembered, That Isreal, had no peace between, 1948 and 1967. The plight , of the Palestinians , is unquestionably tragic, besides the undeniable fact that little is asserted, pertaining to to, The Jews , expllled. from the Arab countries, whom Isreal absorbed with finite rescources.

Answer 5

Blaming the war of '67for the disparity between Israel and her Arab neighbors is the same as blaming the Crusades for 9/11 in America.

The problems are more immense then simple racism or religious diversity, though these are serious issues. THe problems also corilate with Israel's governing. A Democracy in the midst of totalitarian regimes creates instability for the dictatorships. Even if you eliminate the religion and the memory of the past the systems in place will be forever at odds.

Answer 6

Easy force Israel to release Palestine prisoners, force Israel to give back the land they stole from Syria and Lebanon and force the Jews to move out of Palestine and leave the Arabs alone and leave Palestine alone.

Answer 7

Israel had stole our land and want to steal our history too
BTY where was Israel before 1948

also if you remember 1967 war so well then i hope you also remember when the Egyptian kicked your *** in 1973 LOL

Answer 8

All Israeli past wars were conducted on none Israeli Territory's. The next war is going to be on Israeli territories for sure. wars of to day are not like the wars of yesterday.

Answer 9

yes true israeal won 1967
but we won't forget that in 1973 Egypt won it's land back by war & then by using the peace & negotiation now 100% of egyptian lands are back to Egypt
The moral of this that if some one used force he will be faced by the same force he used
Noone can always be a winner

Answer 10

the only way to resolve this issue is to send all Jews back to where they came from, Poland, Italy, Morocco... or any where else.

Life there is fine, why do they need my land? they occupy my land and want recognition of their state?how is that possible? you don't have a state, you are thieves.

It makes me sad when I hear that Arabs negotiate about Gaza only and they don't even consider my home town of Safad!! Am I supposed to live as a refugee forever because Jews don't like Hitler and Germany? maybe I was the one who convinced Hitler to do what he did, and that is why Jews are seeking revenge from me. That is the only explaination I can think of.

USA wants, USA gets , this is how the world is acting. Even the UK can't say no to an American order, it must never be called Great Britain again, they are messing with their own history.

I have nothing against Americans and Brits as individuals, I only blame governments