What do you think about the Palestine/Israel/Middle East problem?
97154
When Isreal was formed as a country in the late 1940's the area was uninhabited.  The people had every right to be there.  They took no one's land and did not bother anyone.\n\nUnfortunately, Islamic Law does not tolerate non-muslims.  In fact the Koran is very clear that the ultimate goal is for Muslims to take over the world.  Because of this, the people of Palestine and other Muslim countries have been trying to push out the Jewish people since they settled in modern day Isreal.  \n\nIsreal is the only source of sanity in the middle east.  It is the only free people. Despite what most news outlets say, the Muslims in Isreal have more freedom than they do in thier native countries.\n\nThe western world should support Isreal as the only bastion of freedom in the middle east.
314677
Israel is our problem too, if your a Christian especially. Moses led them out of Egypt to the Holy Land. That is our home to live when Jesus comes back. Why would we allow some country to want them blown up? I wish Iran's good people could over throw the evil leadership, then we wouldn't mind if they had nukes. Just get the supporters of terrorism out!! Please
437734
I absolutely agree with your last sentence.  But I think because the U.S. and U.N carved out Israel from Palestine in 1948 after WWII, we are kind of responsible.  But i still think we should mind our own d@mn business
714071
Personally, I believe Israel has the right to exist but at the same time Palestine's rights are being violated by not existing. If you read Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations", he'll say yes, this war is a clash between Western civilization and Islamic civilization. Much of this conflict, according to him, was brushed under the carpet during the Soviet era both the Islamic World and the West were fighting communism. Do I agree with him? Not really, but he does bring up some strong points.\n\nThe West (particularly the US) interfered to a great extent in the Islamic World in the post- WW2 era and supported some very corrupt regimes such as the Shah's government in Iran. Many of the governments of this time were Arab Nationalist, but people got tired of these governments with their abuse and corruption and turned to Islamist governments. In some instances, the US encouraged the Islamists because some of the Arab Nationalists were too anti-American for their tastes. Israel is the most blatant example of Western interferance because the US uses it as its foothold in the Middle East, to the resentment of the rest of the Arab World especially since they were so thoroughly defeated during the Six Days War in 1967 because throughout most of Middle Eastern history Jews and Christians have lived in Islamic states without a lot of abuse. So, really, the West cannot be considered innocent of the current situation in the Middle East and though, of course, much of it is a reflection of events occurring there, a large part of it is a reaction against the West and Western ideology.
933652
I would just continue to watch Israel and Palestine battle it out while letting the same happen with the civil war in iraq. As for Iran and North Korea, enough is enough and they should be experiencing a different kind of fire works for new years.
85152
Who care's about palestine???
592689
There's no peaceful ways in solving the Zoinists-Palestine conflict. The Jewish PM Olmert is coming here in US this Sunday to discuss his unilateral moves in order to draw 'the final border'. They even going to expand W. Bank settlments. \n\nhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961384054&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\n\nThere will be more blood and war between the Arabs and the Jewish. As much as you love your country, it's best if you leave and migrate to somewhere else. You said that you're a Christian. What you can do is move to Bethlehem. The area is governed by a Christian mayor. That's the best. I'll pray for your country.
126725
Why not end all economic and military support to Palestine until Palestinians stop blowing up israeli CIVILIANS??? as opposed to israel's targeting of terrorists only.\nIn addition to what I wrote before the palestinians don'e even belong there in there first place, in 1917 the british received a mandate on palestine from the league of nations to prepare palestine as the jewish homeland, palestine at the time included all of Palestine, Israel and Jordan of today, at one point the british rewarded the hashemites for helping them in Saudi Arabia by giving them Jordan (Which was not theirs to give!!!) and even so the palestinians want more and more of Israel, Why don't they just go to Jordan which is 85% palestinian anyways!!!!!!
540889
i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
878346
I'm not sure on your facts, but I do believe Israel is just as mush to blame as Palestine over the violence taking place there. Israel should have never been formed without consent from the people who were living in the region already. If the Ottoman Empire had kept up with western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, there never would have been such a strong European presence in the region, the Zionists could have never pressured European leaders into forming the Israeli state, and there would be one less problem in the world.
485811
This is an unhelpful answer but I agree with Tex. Israel can exist but not at our expense (The USA). I personally think that Palestinians and Jews both are two of the world's biggest troublemakers. Neither are innocent by any means. I am worried for my personal safety and my countries safety because of all this bullsh*t in the middle east. If you are a Muslim or Palestinian I feel bad for you. Your people often suffer too but then are ignored because of the United States affiliation with Israel but it will never give you the right to decide which group stays or goes or promote violence and hate. One of the biggest prayers that could be answered by God to put us a big gigantic step towards world peace is to resolve this conflict between Israel and Palestine but I doubt it ever will until somebody gets blown into smithereens. Its sad, if you are a Muslim I actually have sympathy for you too. Just don't hurt me or my country...please.
741338
Oh well they also claim that Palestinians are not people and therefor have no right to the land. \n No I would not be willing to give up my land. Palestine should have accepted the land they were offered by the UN in 1948 instead of being so stubborn about it. I am not saying the UN was right to create Israel out of someone eles land, but it would have solved alot of problems.\n Oh no don't get me wrong I completely sympathize with the Palestinian people. Israeli soldiers cross into Palestinian land and kidnap their government leaders and put them in jail claiming they are terrorists. No No No not for one second do I believe Israel to be in the right. \n I just think given the way the world works Palestine should have accepted a compromise, Im not sure if that would have even mattered since the Zionist regime in Israel has stated that they will not be happy until they control the entire middle east.
481991
Id say people in the Middle East have an extremely biased view (if any) on the Holocaust. Im Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and i can say that the Holocaust is praised (unfortunately) in most Arab countries since Israel is viewed as the main enemy (along with the US). It's sad to see educated people praising Hitler and the horrible genocide he commited against Jews. Being an Arab Christian, my backgroud education gave me the right idea about the genocide. However, most Muslims have this haine for Jews (mostly because the Sheikhs and Arab leaders examplify Israelis and Jews as the force of evil and war in the world). I dont want to sound too pessimistic but a better education will not be the solution because Imams (or Sheikhs, as in muslim religious leaders) will still endoctrinate their followers... The only solution in my opinion is the creation of two states (Israel and Palestine) after both forces recognize one another according to international law. It's a shame extremism (whether ultra-orthodox jews or fanatic muslims) is the obstacle of bringing people together..
1107613
Everyone is the West is doing all they can to build a second Arab state in Palestine, for the still stateless Palestine Arabs.\n\nIts the Arabs who hate the idea. Because it would mean they would have to give up on their main goal -- destroying Israel.
702434
It's the USA that is the problem, it seems only they can stop Israeli aggresion, but they support it, maybe even suggest/order it
1125498
Oh my god\n\nWhen a question like this is asked on a forum like this and then I read some of the frankly stupid answers I really do fear for the world that my children are growing up in.\n\nHow can people who are so dense really afford computers?\n\nAguy has got it pretty much right. Palestine was not a country, it was a region within which over the last 2000 years and more has resided several peoples including the Jews and Palestiniant Arabs.\n\nThe Jews were driven out over the years as part of the global persecution which has happened to that race and the territory has been variously ruled by whichever superpower has been charging through at the time.\n\nThe Roman empire, the Crusaders, the Ottoman empire, and the British Empire were just some of the users of this land.\n\nAfter WW2 presecuted jews from all over Europe including the concentration camp survivors and millions from Russia headed back to re-claim a homeland in the area known as Palestine, which at the time was under British administration.\n\nThey even fought a brief terrorist campaign against the British Army. \n\nIn 1947 the international community agreed to recognise the state of Israel as a home for all the worlds displaced jews, and in fairness to them they set about turning a barren and desolate place into the vibrant place it is today.\n\nEver since then every neighbouring country, all of which were bigger and more powerful have tried to invade and eliminate Israel, and every time Israel has won.\n\nA different tactic was then employed in winding the regional arab population up under various terrorist organisations, some of which were funded by Libya and others by Iran.\n\nOver the years this has caused such a rift between the Israelis and the Palestinians with horrific suicide bomb attacks on Israeli civilians, that the way the Israeli army now treat the Palestinians is terrible and brutal.\n\nHence you now have a political, economic and military situation which has no easy or glib answers.
757486
I'm  Muslim and i have nothing against the Jews, but I'm 100% against the Zionist state of Israel. before Israel was declared the Jews, Christians and Muslims lived together all over the middle east in peace. it wasn't until the migration of the European Jews (Zionists) who came from all over Europe and settled in Palestine which has been a British colony since the first world war. when the Jews of Europe moved to Palestine they started their terrorist operations against the Native inhabitants of the Land and specifically the Muslims and Christians. they burned their houses, killed many and drove the rest out of their homes into the deserts. in 1948, the state of Israel was declared by the UN and the land was divided into two states, with the Jewish area consisting of roughly 55% of the land, and the Arab area roughly 45%. Jerusalem was planned to be an international region administered by the UN to avoid conflict over its status.\n\nthe Arabs knew that this is done by the British super power to put the Arabs in their place plus they felt that the land is being officially stolen therefore the 1948 war started which resulted in the defeat of the Arabs and Israel gained an additional 26% of the Mandate territory west of the Jordan River. Jordan, for its part, held the large mountainous areas of Judea and Samaria, which became known as the West Bank. Egypt took control of a small strip of land along the coast, which became known as the Gaza Strip.\nEstimates of the final refugee count range from 400,000 to 900,000 with the official United Nations count at 711,000.The continuing conflict between Israel and the Arab world resulted in a lasting displacement that persists to this day.\nImmigration of Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from Arab lands doubled Israel's population within a year of independence. Over the following years approximately 850,000 Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews fled or were expelled from surrounding Arab countries and Iran. Of these, about 600,000 settled in Israel; the remainder went to Europe and the Americas.\n\nfor those atrocities that happened in the past and still happening until now. I feel my rejection of the state of Israel is justified. and i understand how the Arabs feel.\nbut to be practical and look for peaceful solutions i came to agree that if Israel pulls out of ALL the occupied territories (1967 borders) i think there might be a chance for co-existence between Arabs and Jews. after all we do worship one God and from the same origin.\n\npeace!