Should the United States support Israel over the Palestinians?

Answer 1

How about the U.S. support both of them? I think that a worthy goal would be to seek peace in the region. I suppose that both sides could present worthy cases for their complaints. If the United States takes any role in the dispute, it should only be as arbiter. The U.S. should not be taking any sides.

That the U.S. has sided with Israel has led to increased instability in the region and contempt for the United States. I don't think the government's stance has helped either Israel or us.

Answer 2

Well, let’s see.

Palestine was not a country; it was a created territory. The British, French and the United Nations all had a hand in messing up the area we call Palestine. The boundaries, first set by the Ottoman Empire so the Turks had their own boundaries which suited their purposes. I suppose their concept of what Palestine was and constituted was the one with the largest land area.

Then came WW I, after which things changed again which was really just the famous Partition of the defeated Ottoman Empire. Then after WW II the Brits and UN divided up Israel and gave land to Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria. Along about this time the Arabs States decided that a country called Israel was unacceptable and would not be allowed to exist.

The displaced Jews from Europe were left with a small strip of land with which to build a country where they were not automatically condemned to death. Not a bad idea when Ya think about it.

Now comes the 7 day war when Egypt and other Arab countries (I realize that Egyptians do not consider themselves Arab) decided to push the Jews into the Mediterranean. As history reminds us, the Israelis kicked butt in less than seven days. In the first time in history, a conquering country actually gave up land it won in a war. If I remember, they got a worthless piece of paper and the undying hatred of those incompetents it defeated.

I’d say if we really love freedom as we claim, we have no choice but to support the only civilized country in the area.

But maybe that’s just me.

Jim D

Answer 3

Yes. A permanent and peaceful solution would be nice, but this is impossible when dealing with people who are still intent on destroying Israel. I don't think we can ever have a solution until the schools in the Arab countries stop teaching hatred against the Jews. Once the first generation of children that were not taught to hate reaches adulthood and takes control, a peaceful solution will be much easier. This is really up to the Arabs.

Israel is not perfect, but they have the right to defend themselves, and the right to try to kill anyone involved in attacking them, and that includes the leaders of Hamas and/or the "Palestinian" government.

I never heard of any country being attacked repeatedly and then pressured to give back the land they took in defending themselves. Israel cannot give Jerusalem to the Arabs under any peace settlement, because the Arabs desecrated the Jewish holy sites when they had control. If the "Palestinians" are given their own country, any peace treaties must specify clearly that if any Arab countries ever attack Israel again, Israel will have the right to take the land of their attackers and never give it back.

Answer 4

NO!!!!! the united states should support the palestiniansl; the palestinians are the ones who have been and continue to be displaced through out the region and the world; the palestinians are the ones who had their land unjustly stolen away from them; the palestinians are the ones who were living there, and the palestinians are the ones who should be the ones living there and in control there; by the U.S supporting israel all it is supporting is unjust occupation and terrorism.........well that does seem right for the U.S

Answer 5

Honestly I wish the United States would not support either of them.

Frankly its none of their business and they have only made the situation worse.

Israelis and Palestinians should deal with it on their own. It will either lead to peace or war, but in the end their will be a final resolution.

Not this peace talk/intifada/cease fire/Oslo/ garbage that has left both sides suffering and frustrated.

Answer 6

All countries (except Israel of course) in the world including the US and virtually all international jurists(except Zionist jurists of course), condider Israel's occupation of the terroritories COMPLETELY ILLEGAL under the terms of the 4th Geneva Convention.

More important,the 4th Geneva Convention declares it totally LEGAL for any occuppied peoples to use any means at it's disposal to REPEL the illegal occupier.

In fact it was this very 4th Geneva Convention that LEGALIZED Desert Storm as Iraq had ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED another country.

If the US waged a war to rightly oust Iraq out of Kuwait,why is the US not waging a war against Israel to force them out of the occupied territories???

Doesn't the US defend the RULE OF LAW or are they just being their monumentally hypocritical selves with vile double standards.

Perhaps they don't support the LEGALLY RIGHT position of Arab Muslims because they are Arabs and Muslims.

It is called RACISM and the US certainly knows a hell of a lot about that subject.

Answer 7

no, the Palestinians had lived there for 2000 years or more when the British gave the country to Israel in 1948. It should go back to the Palestinians.

Answer 8

Yes, the land in question was given to the Jews by God. The Palestinians are not the rightful owners. How could we support them when they live to kill Jews?

Answer 9

Yes, the "palestinians" are really Jordanian arabs that were such bad criminals Jordan had to kick them out. People like you try hard to forget Black September.

Answer 10

Yes, Palestinians harbor terror groups