Whose land is Israel?

Question

I believe Israel belongs to the Palestinians, not the Jews.

They just Immigrated there!

I have nothing against jews or muslims, I just want to know the truth. No religious answers about it being the jews "promised land."

Thank you.

Answer 1

I think the Palestinians. A large majority of Jews there are not even from that region..they immigrated from Europe. So who do you think as more of a right to be there?? It was wrong to allow Jews to immigrate there just because of the war and the holocaust. The Bible should not be used to give out land deeds. Many Jews don't even believe they should be there...that while they believe they will have the right to return to their homeland Israel, it will be a divine, spiritual event, one done by their God and not a man made mandate.

Answer 2

The land belongs to both Jews and Palestinians. Both sides need to recognize the existence, identity, and basic rights of the other side.
I don't see what the fact that some Israeli Jews are immigrants, has to do with it. Plenty of other countries, including the USA , are populated mainly by immigrants or their descendants.
Tho only possible political settlement will have to be based on the principle of partition of the land- between Israel and a Palestinian state.

Answer 3

but every other nation is forced to accept refugees of war. This was supposed to be a non-religious answer to a question.
Simply put, prior to 1948 the majority of people living in the region were ethnically arab (arab being a term of geographic and racial connotation and not bearing on religious affiliation). These people had ownership of the land as set forth by the British mandate and had generational ties to the area. When WW2 began a large influx of ethnically european people came into British Palestine and began to legally purchase land where available. These immigrants also created local gangs in an attempt to circumvent the british law stating that no citizen of the area shall bear arms. What you got in 1948 was a minority of non-citizens proclaiming religious ties to the are while alienating the ethnic majority (who consisted or chrisians, jews and muslims).
So, the land in a sense should be shared among the ethnic inhabitants.

Answer 4

You want the truth, and the truth is that there is no such thing as the "Palestinian People."

The Arabs have 22 states, and they would like to dismantle Israel in the guise of forming a 23rd Arab state, called "Palestine."

It is from the term "Philistines" that the name "Palestinians" has been taken. Actually, the ancient Philistines and modern Palestinians have something in common: both are invaders from other lands! That is precisely the meaning of their name, that is not an ethnic denomination but an adjective applied to them: Peleshet, from the verb "pelesh", "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders".

The Philistines were a confederation of non-Semitic peoples coming from Crete, the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor, also known as "Sea Peoples". The main tribes were Tzekelesh, Shardana, Akhaiusha, Danauna, Tzakara, Masa or Meshwesh, Lukki, Dardana, Tursha, Keshesh or Karkisha, Labu and Irven. The original homeland of the group that ruled the Philistine federation, namely the "Pelesati", was the island of Crete. When the Minoic civilization collapsed, also the Minoic culture disappeared from Crete, as invaders from Greece took control of the island. These ancient Cretans arrived in Southern Canaan and were known as "Pelestim and Keretim" by Hebrews and Canaanites (that became allied to fight the invaders). Their first settlement seem to have been Gaza, whose original name was "Minoah", a clear reference to the fallen Minoic kingdom. They also invaded Egypt and were defeated by Pharaoh Ramose III in the 12th century.

The Philistines were organized in city-states, being the most important the Pentapolis: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron, and their territory was close to the Mediterranean coast, a little longer and broader than the present-day "Gaza Strip" - not the whole Judah, they never reached Hevron, Jerusalem or Yericho!

Those Sea Peoples that invaded Egypt were expelled towards other Mediterranean lands and did not evolve into any Arab people, but disappeared as distinguishable groups in Roman times. Those dwelling in Canaan were defeated by King David and reduced to insignificance, the best warriors among them were chosen as David's bodyguard. The remaining Philistines still dwelling in Gaza were subdued by Sargon II of Assyria and after that time, they disappeared definitively from history. They are no longer mentioned since the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon.

Today's "Palestinians" have no historical connection to these Philistine invaders. They are simply local Arabs, part of the greater Arab nation.

And the answerer calling himself "Jonathan" ought to know a bit of history and be honest.


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Answer 5

the jews were there 1st but then they left and went to europe and other places, then muslims came, them after the whole holocaust(sp???) thing they were put back there by england and the US. i think that once you leave a land that it is no longer yours and that you don't have the right to mistreat and displace others just becuase your people were treated badly. becuase the muslims didn't do the holocaust christians did. and technically hitler was a jew, because his mother was jewish, so technically they did it to themselves. but i don't think they are entitled to that land anymore. i don't see anything wrong w/ them living there, becuase some jews stayed in lived in peace w/ the muslims and christians, but these israelis want it all they don't want to share the land w/ palestinians, who are not just muslim, but christian too. and that isn't right. and they don't even let all jews move there. there are many ethiopian orthodox jews who they won't let live there, becuase they seem to think that all jews are white. which if someone were originally a jew then they wouldn't be white.

look at all of the countries around israel. they are all, brown-tanned people they are not white. so that to me shows that they can't possibly be natively from there. but america supports them, i can understand why they do, because america was stolen from the native americans so they obviously apporve of it. and i don't mena the country america, i mean the land

Answer 6

Well, here's what Arabs declared after the Six-Day War:

"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... 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".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -

"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the late PLO leader Yassir Arafat

"As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants".
- Walid Shoebat, an "ex-Palestinian" Arab


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Answer 7

God says the earth is His and all that is in it. That means you don't own anything. All the silver and gold belong to God and the cattle on the hills. In the Word of God the only people with a deed to land is Israel, the Jewish people of which a portion of that land belongs to God Himself for His Holy Place.

When God said in the Book of Joel that they divided My land, He is not making a happy statement. All involved in the Road Map to Peace will suffer the judgment of God. America already has first hand experience with this. Only a fool cannot see Gaza for New Orleans.

Romans 9:20 "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God?"

Job 40:2 "Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it"

These are often associated with what the Bible calls "the fear of the Lord" an attitude of reverence and respect toward God.

Answer 8

Today , i think , it should be the land of both of them , just to stop bloodshed.

Yes, Muslims are in that land since many mant many years ago. But God promissed the Jews with that land . Do u think God was mistaken , coz of that problem of today ? No, never . It is the mistake of Moses . God told him to kill all the inhabitants of that land and to take it . But Moses never did that . Otherwise , he made treaties with some , killed some , paied some money . But he never killed them all as God had told him to.

So, today it is the land of both. Where shall the Arabs go to? Egypt , my country ?? No , please

Am Christian , have nothing to do with Muslims or Jews . Thats my humble opinion.

Good luck!

Answer 9

Israel is a name of a person; not a land.

Palestine is a land in which Islam has a long history.

Muslims and Jews can live as neighbours but the mosques must stay for the Muslims.

Answer 10

You do know that it was originally a part of the Ottoman Empire, do you not?

The State was created by the international community just as many other states have been created. However, Israel continues to be held to a higher standard. No other nation has ever been forced to return lands won in war.
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