How Important Is It That Israel Be Held Accountable?

Question

It is very apparent that the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is grossly misunderstood. Israel has a nasty habit of violating the Geneva Convention and its treatment of Palestinians is just short of, if not already, Genocide. It is sickening that people use the Holocaust to justify Israel in anyway. Israel has been getting away with murder, literally, since UNSCOP gave them sovereignty.

Isn't it important for Mid-East peace as well as security in other parts of the world that Israel be held accountable?

This link paints good picture of the blight of the Palestinians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6390755.stm

kveryeffective, The Palestinian extremist militants should be held accountable but like I said the conflict between Israel and Palestine is grossly misunderstood. Israel came into existence largely in part do to terrorist acts perpetrated by Jewish Extremist (Research UNSCOP). The actions of Extremist groups like HAMAS are misguided attempts at advocating for the Palestinians. There is a huge imbalance between foreign support for Israel and the Palestinians.

My point is unconditional support for Israel doesn't seem to be helping anyone.

MSG J, The tone of article is biased, the information about Palestinian hardships is very accurate. The Jews weren't placed there, it is much more complicated than. Israel is not fighting for its life, if anybody is it is the Palestinian people. My point here is that unconditional support of Israel encourages Israel to act lawlessly, which in turn encourages and reinforces terrorism.

Answer 1

Certainly...why do you think Terrorists hate the US? We support israel unconditionally...

The question you should be asking is why do we support Israel unconditionally?

Answer 2

It is good one sided and biased reporting and even the idea is inflammatory. After WWII the world decided to put the Jews there. That is done and cannot be undone. However, instead of growing and evolving the Palestinian people choose to fight and murder. The rest of the Arab community is also to be blamed. The best "revenge" is success but does Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt help the Palestinians with education, infrastructure, industry? No, they only give them rocks, guns, ammunition...

The Israelis are literally fighting for their lives and have been doing so for decades. Their actions, though tough, are nothing close to Genocide. If you want to throw that word around learn it's meaning first and don't just throw it around because that is what the rest of the bandwagon is doing.

I have been to Bosnia and Kosovo where we stopped what was turning into genocide of Muslims; so much so that Serbian officials and officers openly stated as much.

The west bank is what it is solely because of the Palestinians actions and also the responsibility of those that put them up to as much.

Check out the historical rules of war... you lose...you lose. No do overs. No "oh feel sorry for me for starting a war that I could not win now give me back land." If the Arab community had not cultivated and engineered the Palestinian people to be, for the most part, pure blind hatred then things would be much different.

Israel has given concessions over and over again whereas the Palestinian people and Hamas, etc. are still bent on the total destruction of Israel. Well, one cannot fault the Israelis for not just sitting there and being killed.

Here's something... try stopping the rocketing, suicide bombing, other killing of Israel and giving the Palestinian people hope for the future vice an excuse to die. Give them something to live for and not just something to die for and see what that part of the world. The current practice of violence that Arabs in that part of the world have been engaging in has not worked for the past 50 years so maybe it is time to get on the Clue Bus and grab a window seat and actually try peace for once.

Answer 3

"t is very apparent that the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is grossly misunderstood."

Misunderstood by you, apparently.

Here is a basic question for you to answer.
You say that Israel is violating international laws and think that they may have even engaged in genocide. Yet it is clear that manyh Palestinian terrorist present an existential threat to Israel. That being the case, what is Israel EXPECTED to do about it according to YOU that will not violate what you think are "international laws" as opposed to what Israel actually does?

It seems to me that for you and others who think like you NOTHING Israel does is considered "acceptable" since you think that is was "born in sin". And your characterization as Hamas as mere "extremists" but engaging in "misguided attempts" speaks volumes about how you think.

Answer 4

Sure lets hold Israel accountable.

Just as soon as we hold the Palestinians accountable for their actions.

Targeting women and children also crimes that is so far beyond the pale that the auothers of the Geneva Convention won't believe it.

Training their children to be sucide bombers.

Women huddle around terrorist leaders such that if they kill them that women would die too and people like you will feel sorry for them.

Hold people accountable fine but everyone needs to be held accountable.

Additional Information: It doesn't endear me to the Palestines who were dancing in the street.

Israel was establish by the U.N.
Look it up.

Answer 5

Turning our back on Israel won't solve anything either. Israel is a civilized country that has learned that it doesn't pay to cut any slack for the ragheads. Their's is not an honorable enemy. so Israel, to retain it's own safety has learned to fight fire with fire.

They have a quality that we in the US does not possess. They have learned to aside aside this nonsense called compassion !

Answer 6

Not any more important than that the Palestinians be "Held Accountable"

Answer 7

The Geneva Convention does not apply to Israel's actions in territories, in the view of eminent international lawyers. However, Israel voluntarily applies its provisions.

In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was set up by Egypt with the express object of recapturing the whole of Palestine for the Arabs. (This was of course before the "West Bank" came under Israeli control.) See the Palestinian National Covenant (not yet amended.)

Meeting in Cairo from June 1-9,1974, the Palestinian National Council adopted its "Phased Plan", under which any territories captured or won by negotiation from Israel would be taken possession of and used as a base for further operations, until the goal of "recovery" of the whole of Palestine was achieved. It is not clear if this is still in force, though statements by Palestinian leaders such as the late Feisal Husseini suggest that it is.

The obligation of the PLO to cease from violence and incitement did not begin with the Tenet and Mitchell agreements but with the Oslo agreements themselves in 1993. See the full text. Arafat clarified this obligation in an attached letter to Prime Minister Rabin: ".....upon the signing of the Declaration of Principles, the PLO encourages and calls upon the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to take part in the steps leading to the normalization of life, rejecting violence and terrorism, contributing to peace and stability..."

It was Gamel Abdel Nasser, via the Arab League, who invented the idea of Palestinian Arab Unity nearly two decades after all Muslim Arabs turned down the opportunity to have an independent Arab Palestine state. This new idea putrefied into something called the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Arab Palestinian Nationalism and the PLO never existed before then; it was virtually unheard of. Arabs living in or around Palestine didnt consider themselves Palestinians. They were Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, or just Arabs. Consider these revealing quotes:
"There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. Palestine is alien to us..." (Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937)

"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not." (Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946)

"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." (Delegate of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Security Council, 1956)

Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel...(Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council, Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977)

Ironically, until the UN mandated Jewish Palestinian state declared its intention to rename itself Israel (Eretz Yisroel), it was the Jews living in Palestine who were called Palestinians. Palestinian Arabs were called, and referred to themselves as Arabs.

An Egyptian PLO recruit born in 1929 in Cairo, Mohammed Abdel Rahman al Qudwa al-Husseini, changed his name to Yasser Arafat and became leader of a faction within the PLO known as Fatah. Among many other nefarious misdeeds, Arafat was responsible for the killing of the eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, and for the kidnapping and murder of U.S. diplomats Cleo Noel and George C. Moore in 1973.

When the ill-fated Oslo Peace Accords in 1993 released Arafat from near-exile in Tunisia, this monster of a man was allowed to resume terrorizing the world and the people he presumably represented. Although some important men-of-history may have originally utilized questionable tactics to make their cause known and accepted, their personalities and objectives were forged by the instinctive and compassionate need to help their people right a wrong. In many instances, when they were true to legitimate causes, they ultimately became respected and admired on the world stage as courageous leaders. Perhaps because Arab Palestinian Nationalism was simply a fabricated issue, the man who became known as Yasser Arafat never benefited from the shaping forces of a righteous struggle.
He was a murderous, communism-brainwashed thug who remained unchanged due to a lack of authentic motivation or empathy. Arafat signed on to the PLO in the 1960s to wreak havoc and confusion, and he continues to do so to this very day. He was never a politician, or a diplomat, or an ambassador seeking peace and redress. He was a criminal and he is still a criminal after his death.

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Answer 8

I agree with you. I believe its the Zionist or European Jews that have been some of the problem in the Mideast. Not the Jews that were part of Palestine and had been there for hundreds of years.

Answer 9

Very important...Until there is no real justice for Palestinians there is not going to be any peace...

Answer 10

Yes they should be held accountable, they should just nuke
the Whole Place, and do it right.