do you think that Palestinians are victims or they just deserve what they are going through?

Answer 1

victims
let me first state:
I do NOT agree with Hamas's techniques but if they can accomplish what Fatah hasn't in 5 decades who knows.... evidently there's something good in them or the people wouldn't have voted for them

Fatah came into existence in 1958, founded by Yasser Arafat. A more moderate group that DOES recognize Israel and has engaged in peace efforts with Israel. (unlike Hamas)

To this day though, almost 50 years later, Israel STILL REFUSES to recognize Palestine.

My take on this issue and maybe I am wrong but since it's been almost 5 decades under fatah and still no peace and no state... maybe the people were just so tired and felt so hopeless they too began to rebel in a sense. Therefore electing Hamas, thinking maybe things would change.

In defense of the Palestinians...... this is what can happen, when an entire people are impoverished, helpless, their lively hood is destroyed, living under constant oppression and occupation without the daily needs met.

Answer 2

For the last 56 years the Palestinian Refugees are living in a United Nation Refugee Camps waiting for UN to implement the UN Security Council resolutions. For the last 56 years Israel conducts collective punishment and state terror against the Palestinian Refugees.

Answer 3

The Palestinians democratically chose Hamas in their elections. Nobody forced them. They knew full well that Hamas was a terrorist group and that Hamas were determined to destroy Israel.

They could instead have voted for Fatah. Fatah, at that time, had guaranteed, on paper, that they would sit down to peace talks with the Israelis. But the Palestinians rejected them, and chose Hamas instead.

I fear the Israelis will be the losers in this. Now they have Gaza under the control of Hamas and Hamas is, of course, backed by Iran.

Israel has always supplied to the Palestinians free water, electricity, housing and schools. This is more than ANY of the large, wealthy Arab countries have given the Palestinians, their own people.

By the way, in response to what a previous response said about Israel: the state was not formed through acts of terror - this is historically inaccurate. Israel was created by the Balfour Declaration, signed by the British, who had the mandate for the land. They divided the land between the jewish refugees and the Palestinians.

Answer 4

Neither.

They are people like anyone else.

Those who have chosen to respond to what the Israelis do with terrorism are just giving an excuse for more oppression, but their actions do not mean that ALL Palestinians deserve what they are going through.

The US used a similar rational to kill Indians. If a group of braves stole some horses or killed a group of settlers, that would be an excuse to wipe out a whole village of Indians, and justify pushing them on to smaller and smaller reservations.

Is it a just punishment for the actions of a few to push people out of their homes and take their land? And incidentally, Israeli historians now admit that Israel used terror tactics to establish the state of Israel and clear out Arabs from some communities after the partition.

Answer 5

They all want peace.

But they both want to fight for it. The Jews, the Christians, The Muslims, they all have a right to live in that beautiful land.

There are some Palestinians and Israelis who have been reaching out to each other to promote peace, but it never lasts. There is always some suicide bomber that ruins it all.

They are all victims of senseless violence. I pray and hope that they can all live in peace one day.

Answer 6

Victims

Answer 7

I can't say that every Palestinian deserves what s/he is going through, but as a country, yes, they have created their own fate.

Answer 8

Those who voted for Hamas deserve what they are going through. Those who didn't are victims.

Answer 9

it couldn't happen to nicer folks

Answer 10

how can you say they deserve it?!?!