Why so much violence in Israel? Do Palestinians really think suicide bombing is God's will?

Question

I can understand why both sides are mad, but nothing will ever be solved by blowing each other to high heaven. According to both the Bible and the Quran, you are both descended from Abraham, and therefore you are one people whether you like it or not. Who cares whether the country is called Palestine or Israel?

I just watched an HBO documentary entitled "To die in Jeruselum". It was a powerful special that followed the families of a teenage palestinian bomber and her victim. Both girls were 17 years old and in high school, and both died before they ever had a chance at life. What was accomplished? Nothing. And this is God's will? (Or Allah's, if you prefer.) I think that such an illogical choice of action could only be the will of man, and not God.

Answer 1

Yes, young people in the Arab/Moslem world are taught from childhood that killing Jews is the most important and holy thing in the universe.

Answer 2

The Palestinians don’t have the modern weaponry available to them, nor do they have the financial backing of the US government. For them it is a case of desperate times that require desperate measures. If you do a body count, they have lost many more lives and suffered many more injuries than the Jews in Israel. The US media skews the situation in its usual manner to make them look all bad and the unprovoked bad guys. It is a very complicated situation over there that began with the Zionist movement. One Jew dies and it is viewed as a catastrophe. One hundred Palestinians die and it is viewed as good news. The situation in Israel is a perfect example of how religion poisons everything. A rather accurate analogy of the situation between the Palestinians and Israel are analogous to the Native Americans in America. The US government gives over $7,000,000 to Israel each and every day. Few Americans know exactly what is really going on over there. This web site provides some insight for anyone interested in learning. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ I am not condoning terrorism in any way, and I love my country, but I am trying to understand why people hate our country so much and from what little I have learned, we Americans have involved ourselves in a situation that perhaps we would have been better of staying out of. If the ‘holy’ land in this part of the world belongs to the Jews according to the Bible, then the land in the continental US belongs to the Native Americans. We’ve done similar things in Iran and other countries that many people have either forgotten or never even knew. It seems to me that it really is all about the oil.

Answer 3

a million. UN in easy words approved a jewish state by a international vote, israel declared itself as a state. 2. the 1948 conflict lasted 10 months from would 1948 to march 1949. what you're talking about is the 6 day conflict, which befell in 1967. 3. hamas has a political wing, a protection force wing and a civil wing. hamas is the in easy words political organization that builds colleges and can provide to the persons jointly because the protection force wing commits act of terrorism, my opinion is that the persons chosen them more advantageous because of the civil wing and a lot less because of the protection force wing. so the conflict isn't adversarial to the palestinian human beings, its adversarial to hamas

Answer 4

I agree with a couple of the readers, it is about getting their land back. Recently I asked a question as to what you would do if you built your dream house, only to have it taken away from you and you were forced to live in a shed yet able to see the new residents living in this house. Do you know what the majority said - Fight - go through law it is your right. This is why you have what you do, these people have had their rights taken away - It is in desperation that these people do what they do, they have nothing left and nothing to lose. Everything that is happening is more political than religious. I am not saying that bombings are the way to go in Islam you are not allowed to take your own life.

Answer 5

The question is why so narrowly focus that you end up with only murder-suicide." Killing people and GETTING AWAY with it is far worse! In World War II, the Japanese used kamikaze bombers. In recent history,Suicide bombings were actually started by Tamils in Sri Lanka, and the technique was copied by Palestinians. New York Times did a story on this issue in their January 14, 2003 edition. Here are few excerpts:

January 14, 2003
Suicide Bombing Masters: Sri Lankan Rebels
By AMY WALDMAN

"HE WANNI, Sri Lanka. Inside the Kantharuban Arivuchcholai orphanage, which is set in a clearing hacked from the jungle's oppressive vegetation, sits a small painted hut, a mini-museum of sorts.

"Inside it is a picture of Kantharuban, who blew himself up in 1991. There is a picture of Captain Millar, who blew himself up in 1987. There is a picture of 12 cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who swallowed cyanide capsules after capture by Indian troops in 1987.

"Eleven-year-old Rajani, who calls the orphanage home,knows them all. He knows that Kantharuban, an orphan like him, asked that the home be founded. Captain Millar, Rajani said, was "the first Black Tiger," a member of the special suicide unit of the rebels, who have been fighting for a homeland for the Tamil ethnic minority in Sri Lanka for two decades.

"They go in sea and on land in black robes,' he said, proud of his knowledge. 'They will go and jam themselves against anything.'

"When Captain Millar plowed a truck full of explosives into an army camp in July 1987, 40 soldiers died, along with the captain, and a culture was born.

"It has elevated the suicide attack to the ultimate commitment to the movement.

"The Tigers did not invent the suicide attack, but they proved the tactic to be so unnerving and effective for a vastly outmanned fighting force that their methods were studied and copied, notably in the Middle East.

"Of all the suicide-capable terrorist groups we have studied, they are the most ruthless, the most disciplined," said Rohan Gunaratna, a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He said the group was responsible for more than half of the suicide attacks carried out worldwide.

"Until Sept. 11, "they were the deadliest terror organization in the world," one American official said. They used men, women, children and animals; boats, trucks and cars. They mounted suicide attacks on the battlefield as well as off.
Suicide has long been part of the Tiger culture. Tigers were given cyanide capsules and told to use them if captured. Many did."

Answer 6

You are in the position of being able to see a land invaded and occupied.
The Israelites want the Arabs gone from what they are claiming as their land.
The Palestinians want the Israelis to go back to Europe or where ever they came from.
You are not watching just a change of government.
You are watching one group of people being forced off their lands by another group, possibly ceasing to exist as a people because of it.

The last time this happened was when the Europeans took over the Americas.
Religion is secondary to the chance to grab some land or the attempt to hold onto it.

Answer 7

People do what they have to to liberate their country. What you call terrorists,I call resistance operatives. The Nazis called the Polish Underground terrorists. And the the French Underground. And the Yugoslav Resistance Movement. Etc. They just want their country back. Nobody is persecuting jews in the U.S.,Canada,the UK,Australia,etc. They have plenty of places to live. They do not require a "safe haven" from American pogroms and death camps. If they just want a jewish majority country,Guyana is rich,fertile,underdeveloped,cash-starved,has huge potential and is currently open to all immigration. Muslims are moving there is large numbers,so it will likely become a Muslim majority,not a jewish-majority country. Perhaps Muslims are smarter than jews. Better fighters,too - those jews in Palestine have an army like France's but Nasrallah defeated them handily when they invaded Lebanon in 2006.

Answer 8

Um, when was the last suicide bombing in Israel? Its been a while.

Has Israeli expansion in the west bank stopped?

Answer 9

Hate is like a plague....it spreads from one person to another, until it infects everyone who comes in contact with it.....hate can take over a person's very soul till they can't tell right from wrong anymore...getting even is all they ever think about. They will sacrifice their children to get even. When a Mother can strap a bomb on her only son and talk about how proud she will be the day he blows himself and other innocent people to smithereens....I don't want to know these people...they are sick with hate...

It will never end until Jesus returns and puts an end to it..

Answer 10

You'd wonder if extreme tactics used to obtain false confessions would be anyone desires.