Israel v. Palestine.. who is in the wrong, who is in the right?

Answer 1

Both are in the right and in the wrong.

Trying to justify that only their side belongs using questionable, age-old claims is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that both Israelis and Palestinians are there now and they have to learn to get along. Palestinians have to recognize Israel's right to exist (regardless of past historical errors by the British partions) and Israeli gov't has to treat the Palestinians equally as those within its own borders.

Answer 2

They're both in the wrong.. but the "Palestinians" / Arabs are the largest part of the problem by far.

Arabs started the wars and each new wave of violence and the "Palestinians" have refused to take any meaningful steps towards peace.

It's also important to remember that there has never been a state of Palestine or an Arab state comprised of the land in question. The land has not been under Arab control for nearly 1000 years. Further, the "Palestinian" identity didn't even exist until the 1960s and it was created by EGYPTIANS.

Answer 3

Both !! Had Israel declared independence as an all inclusive free nation giving equal rights to Moslem's Christians , and Jews none of this would be happening today. Palestinians are determined to push the Jews into the ocean. There refusal to allow Israel to exist destroys any hope of peace.

Answer 4

It is more complex than who is wrong or right. The Palestinians are right in the sense that they lived on that land and had it take from them at gun point and were forced onto settlements. The Israelis are right in the sense that they are now a nation and no matter if one would like to refuse them the right to be a nation they are and it must be dealt with. As long as radical Palestinians are going to blow up Israelis they will retaliate with equally brutal methods. Israel is also wrong in the sense that they claim a right to the land because "God" gave it to them. Israel does treat the Palestinians as dogs and have stated they want the Palestinians gone. As Palestinians have said the same things about Israelis. This is a centuries old battle going back to the time of Abraham and its highly doubtful it will be solved any time in the near future. It was ignorant and short sighted to put Israel where it was put.

Both sides have committed horrible crimes against the other.

Answer 5

quite simply Israel is wrong.

They committed ethnic cleansing to form there country, have repeatedly committed offenses in defiance of the Geneva convention. They have strung the Palestinians along for years with promise of a State, that they never intended to allow.

Free Palestine!

Answer 6

I think it was wrong of the United Nation to divide a land, even it had no real government in power. Saying that I also think that the Palestinians need to settle down and work with the Israels to start providing for their children and their future

Answer 7

Justin Keating on Israel
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_press&Number=294213385&page=0&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=-1#Post294213385

I have a tree in Israel, and I once had a certificate to prove it. About 1950 a lady from a Zionist organization planted it for my support of the Zionist Youth Movement in Ireland. But it is all so long ago that it has probably been cut down by now, and I have lost the certificate. At the time, like many young Europeans with left-wing views, as the full horrors of Nazi genocide became known, I supported the new state. But now I have totally changed my mind.

I have reached the conclusion that the Zionists have absolutely no right in what they call Israel, that they have built their state not beside but on top of the Palestinian people, and that there can be no peace as long as contemporary Israel retains its present form. I hasten to make clear that none of this gives me any pleasure, but in the great scheme of things my personal wishes do not weigh heavily in the scale pans of history. I wish I did not think what I do, I hope I am wrong. My conclusions are based on the answers to five questions.

1. Did the Jews of the Old Testament come from what is now Israel? The answer is No.

2. Are the Jews of the world today simply the descendants of the people of the Diaspora two thousand years ago? The answer is, only in part.

3. Does the right of return apply to people who occupied some land two thousand years ago for a historically brief period, to the detriment of those who have been there since? Obviously no. Imagine a world where every people claimed that right.

4. Did the Balfour Declaration give the Zionists the right to establish a state in Israel? The answer is no. At the time the British Government had no right to give.

5. Did the United Nations Resolution of November 1947 give Zionists the right to establish the present state of Israel? The answer is no, and they have continuously and relentlessly violated that resolution for more than half a century, so that any tatters that now remain are void, by their action.

I want briefly to look at each point separately. Some of what I say is taken from a book called My People by Abba Eban, who was Israeli Foreign Minister. He says the Hebrew Tribes came out of Mesopotamia. They moved from Ur in southwest Mesopotamia to Haran, in northwest Mesopotamia. It was here that Abraham was told, by the God that the Jews had invented to leave his land and kinsmen for a new country. Obedient to the divine voice, he moved into western Palestine, the land of the Canaanites. The above is loosely but accurately quoted from Eban. It follows that the Jews came from far away, that they claimed the land of Canaan because their God gave it to them, and there were Canaanites there already. Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 states, "The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people”. This was a self-serving and untruthful Zionist myth.

My second point is that the assumption that the Jews of the world (all of whom claim the right of return) are descendants of the Diaspora takes no account of the Kingdom of the Khazars, about whom Arthur Koestler wrote a book arguing that he and other Ashkanazi Jews were their descendents. Also, it assumes that no Jewish girl ever got pregnant (over 2,000 years) by a non-Jew, and brought the child home to her parents, and it also forgets that the converted wives or husbands who were born non-Jewish can, on conversion, claim the right of return.

Point three: At the time of the Balfour Declaration, the Ottoman Empire, which was the ruling power in Palestine, was falling apart, but the British Government had no rights in the area. The Declaration was made to a private person, the head of the Rothschild family, and while Balfour was promising the Jews a nation home in Palestine, T.E. Lawrence was promising the same thing to Palestinian Arabs. In law and in equity it has no validity.

Finally, when the United Nations passed its historic resolution (with Britain abstaining) it was a plan for partition. What was new and crucial was that it recognized Jewish sovereignty. The flight of the ignorant Palestinian peasants was founded on such atrocities as the massacre at Deir Yasin where Zionist terrorists filled the well with slaughtered peasants, and went to adjoining villages saying, "Look what happened over there." In addition, there were bogus broadcasts purporting to come from Palestinian leaders, advising flight. The Jewish-Arab partnership, pleaded for so eloquently by David Ben Gurion -"based on equality and mutual assistance”, to quote his words - was from the beginning a lie which Zionist fundamentalists did not believe.

Those same fundamentalists, who are in the ascendant now, can only say, "We are here because our God gave it to us." That is too weak for me I'm afraid.

All of this is a huge tragedy for ordinary Zionist people, who have been led up a blind alley by fanatics. But it is more. Jews have made an immense contribution to civilization, developing as they were between the great empires of Mesopotamia and the Nile, with both of which they had intimate contact, and by which they wanted to avoid being swallowed. They developed a religion and an ethos based on independence, liberty, and democracy to which we all owe a debt. That religion is based on the twin concepts of Law and Righteousness, which inspired over the millennia extraordinary contributions to culture and morality. All admirable. In Israel/Palestine, where are they now?

Zionists have betrayed all of this, and that is a tragedy not just for Jews, but for all of us.

See:
Balfour to Bush
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2590.shtml

Should There Be A Jewish State? NO!
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_6490.shtml
"I would much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state."
(Albert Einstein)

UN Planned State of Israel as a Still-Birth
http://www.christianactionforisrael.org/un/stillbirth.html
Jew is a Language Group Not a Race - Nodwells
Semitic Semantics
Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Race or Ethnic Group
http://www.counterpunch.org/hamod07122003.html

Jews - Criminally Inbred, Genetic Freaks
The jewish Race Is Composed Wholly of Arabic, Criminally Inbred, Genetic Freaks
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/2004b/32304georgepgeneticfreaks.htm

ARE THE JEWS A NATION? NO!
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/

Answer 8

If you don't believe the word of the testament don't both reading this.

Israel is wrong. The LORD led them into battle countless times and they won with "the all mighty" by their side. At some point they decided they were done fighting even when the LORD wished them to keep moving. They refused to fight then, so not they will fight until their end.

Answer 9

Israel has tired to reason w/ Palestine, the Palestinians dont want land or peace; they just want the Jews done. You cant negotiate w/ somebody that starts w/ the death of all your people. The only thin Israel can do is fight back, which theyve shown theyre very good at.

Answer 10

I can't believe you're trying to solve a 1000+ year old problem in Yahoo Answers!

Of course, we can't do much worse than those who have tried!