Who gives Israel the right to exist?
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If America is so supportive of giving land to people who were killed in masses by an oppressive government than why haven't they given blacks their 40 acres and a mule yet? They coukld use all the money our government gives in Isael's miltary under the table to purchase the land. Israel recieved more money from the US than any other country and the US military baking them is why they have the right to exist. That and the fact they can have an Atomic weapon but no country around them that they threaten to use it on can.
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For some reason we seem to think we need Isreal as an ally, i think we would make more allies if we supported the palestians, Israel is a country that was imposed by the UN. It has got to be embarrassing if you need the UN to start a country for you.
52992
Israel holds America by the balls.
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Hamas was elected in a democratic election and should be able to form their government. At the same time, they should uphold the rights of other human beings. If they are serious about turning away from terrorism and brut force, they should know actions speak louder than words. \n\nIf the Palestinian government won't recognize Israel's right to exist then why should Israel keep giving the Palestinians money? Stop crying for funds from someone you say doesn't exist.\n\nNo one can have it both ways. Shake hands and take the money or ignore Israel and find your funds elsewhere.\n\nFor the second part of your question , terrorism is the most effective means radial people have found to get their cause in the media. Mass terror(ak a) bombings sales newspapers. Doesn't matter if it is a suicide bomber in the Middle East or a bomb at a clinic.
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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.
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Israel is the only Jewish state in the whole world.  The Arabs have 22 states.  The Arabs are not wiling to accept a Jewish state in their midst.\n\nIsrael thought that by leaving Gaza entirely in August 2005, that the Arabs would get their act together and develop their economy. Instead, the Arab have seen fit to launch thousands of missiles at Israel's civilian population, intending to kill as many citizens as possible.\n\nIsrael, on the other hand, is trying to live in peace.  When they do attack, it is with the clear objective of silencing the Arab terrorists.  By international law, Israel is totally justified in its quest to protect its citizens.  The Arabs are in total violation of international law by unprovoked attacking of innocent civilians in Israel.\n\nThe Palestinian Arabs could have had a state already, if they only behaved like civilized human beings.  But they have proven time and again that they are not ready to behave, and so the Arabs will have to exist with "only" 22 states.\n\nMeanwhile there is plenty of land remaining to be settled in Israel
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Israel is a very small piece of land. God promised this to Abraham, Isaac, and (Jacob later called Israel). God said I will bless them that bless you and I will curse them that curse you. If God was not on Israel's side it would be owned by the Palestinians by now.
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its completely normal! It's a real country with freedom of press, religion, and the right to hold office for all its citizens, regardless of religion, ethnicity, race or whatever. The citizens of israel, yes including the 1,000,000+ israeli arabs enjoy more rights, privledges and freedoms than do any of their arab brothers in any of the 22 arab league nations.\nWhat is NOT normal is a continued 60+ year war by the 57 muslim nations against one tiny little jewish state
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The Jewish Entity "Known as the State of Israel" is not a Democracy, it's an Aparthied state because it is based on pre-determined preferences and settings and is constructed on occupied Palestinian land. Number one, if you're Jewish, you can immediatly get citizenship and set up shop, and run a more than normal life. But if you're not Jewish, i.e., if you're a Palestinian Christian or Muslim, you would be denied many rights, especialy if you're from the two occupied regions of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they you HAVE no rights over there, the Israeli elected government would shoot you down on suspicion alone.\n\nThis is very similar if not worse than the South African Aparthied.\n\nSo, Zionist politics is designed to serve one purpose and one purpose alone, and that is to protect one of the greatest thefts of all times, the theft of Palestine and to hush hush on it as if it was alright.\n\nI recently asked an Israeli associate, I asked her, If the Arab Israelis want to establish a Majority government, would you allow them to rule Israel? to which she responded: "NEVER! THIS IS A JEWS ONLY STATE"... i guess that sums it up. Israel is not a democracy, it's a theocracy trying to disguise itself as a democarcy, but it fools only those who CAN be fooled, i.e. the uneducated or those who refuse to see the light.\n\nKuLock: Your answer is far away from reality. Every Jew in the world who wants to make money and run away from Poverty immigrated to Occupied Palestine. Those people ran Jewish terrorist Organizations like the Haganah and the Argon, who were horrible in thier crimes, look em up, they would enter Palestinian towns and villages and kill everyone, even the baby in the woman's womb. Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and it's all documented in Britain, Istanbul and all the old capitals. It's Zionists who claim the pathetic lie that the land was people-less for a stateless people, this is a lie you could have pulled 50 years ago, but everyone knows it's a propaganda lie now, just like Hitler's proclamation that Germans were a super or special race. All lies on top of lies, suit yourself and enjoy those lies demise. :)\n\nShalom.
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All the territories the Israelis now possess are theirs by legal right -- the right conferred by the League of Nations Mandates Commission, when it carefully defined the territory which would be set aside, from the vast territories in the Middle East that had formerly been in the control of the Ottoman Turks as part of their empire, and which had been won by the Allies. \n\nAn Arab State, a Kurdish State, and a Jewish state were all promised. The Arabs got their state -- no, in the end, they got far more than their state but rather, in 2005, 22 members of the Arab League, the most richly endowed with natural resources of any states on earth, enjoying the fruits of the greatest transfer of wealth in human history The Kurds did not get their state, because by the time things had settled, Kemal Ataturk was driving a hard bargain and would not permit it. \n\nThe Jews got the Mandate for Palestine set up for the express purpose of establishing the Jewish National Home, which would inexorably become, all parties realized, in time a Jewish state. It did not seem wrong then, and does not seem wrong now, that the Jews should have a state of their own. They asked only for the right to have no barriers put up to their immigration, and no barriers put in the way of their buying land. That was it. That was the sum total of what they demanded. \n\nUntil the 1948 war, when five Arab armies attacked, not a single dunam of Arab-owned land (and remember that nearly 90% of the land, in any case, remained the possession of the state or the ruling authority, as in the Mandatory period) was appropriated. No one should dare to write about this subject without having done the research on demography, land ownership, and law. \n\nThe Israeli claim to the West Bank (as Judea and Samaria were carefully renamed by Jordan after 1948, in precisely the same way, and for the same reason, that the Romans, nearly two thousand years before, had renamed Judea as "Palestine" and Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina) is not that of a military occupier, though it is also that. The main legal and historic claim is that based on the League of Nations Mandate, which in turn, was based on a considerable historic and moral claim recognized by the educated leaders of the then-civilized world, who actually knew something of the history of the area, and were not nearly as misinformed as so many have been by the mass media, and the laziness and prejudice of journalists today. \n\nThe notion of "occupation" of course evokes imagines of Occupied Paris, or Occupied Berlin, after the war. It implies no justification for the claims of the power with the military presence. But the claim of Israel to the lands it took in 1967 are based, for the Sinai, on the standard rules of post-war settlement, the rules which have obtained for centuries, whereby a victor in a war of defense keeps what he has won. If the Israelis chose not to, or were forced not to exercise that right, it does not mean that the right did not exist. It did, and it applies even more forcefully to Gaza and the West Bank. But the claim there is not based merely on the successful conquest of territory to which otherwise Israel had no claim. It did have a claim, a claim based clearly on the Mandate for Palestine -- and like all the other League of Nations Mandates, was formally accepted, taken over as it were, by the United Nations when it came into being. This is a matter of record. It cannot be undone. \n\nWhatever else one wishes to say about the West Bank or Gaza, the word "occupation" is a tendentious, and cruel, misnomer. What it seeks to imply, what it seeks to implant in the minds of men, is clear: Israel has no rights here. This is nonsense. This is the very reverse of the truth. Read the Mandate, and the Preamble to the Mandate, for Palestine. Then read the records of the Mandates Commission -- and especially how they reacted when the British unilaterally announced that the terms of the
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Israel didn't exist before the UN created it. In the time immediately before the creation of Israel, it was controlled by Britain, as was the rest of Palestine, and Britain did not particularly care whehter Jews or Arabs lived there.\n\nEdit: Jerusalem was the center of the Crusades. It passed hands between Christians, who were generally lenient when it came to allowing Jews in the city, and Muslims, who were not. At the end of the Crusades, the Turks had control of it, and it was part of the Ottoman Empire until its collapse and the British war for control of the area.
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Israel will exist until the apocalypse.. Their possesion of nuclear weapons insures that.. \n\nThe major factors for their existence are outlined in the bible.. They're living in their 'holy land'.. Their birthright ordained by God.. \n\nThe Palestinians are a people being brainwashed by extremist clerics that have high-jacked the islamic religion for their own hateful purposes.. They teach hatred and revenge.. This mentality is destroying the Palestinians lives.. They cannot develop socially or economically until they have EXORCISED this evil..
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The truth is Israel was founded on the auspices of the UN, strongly supported by USA and the UK. All subsequent foreign policy has been therefore to shore up that decision.
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The USA supported the creation of Israel out of sympathy for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. As a result, when Arab Nations attacked Israel we had no choice but to support Israel. Because we support Israel the Arab people naturally don't like us-we stole their land,(Israel). From then on we Americans have been sold on the notion that Israel is our only true friend in the Middle East and we must support them. The fact is, if Israel didn't exist we wouldn't be in the mess we are today. We are one of the biggest oil consumers in the world. Why would you hate your best customer? Israel never should have been created.... BUT... now that it does... we need to kick the Muslim world's butt until they arrive in the 21st century and forget that stupid notion about the 72 Virgins. When that happens economic stability will arrive and so will peace. Religion is the enemy.\nJD
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Every person of any nationality has a right to live in peace. By simply stating Israel stole Palestinian land and using that as an excuse to fire unguided missiles or blow themselves up with the intent to murder indiscriminately is wrong. To not want Israel to live anywhere in the world is the goal of certain Palestinian groups. In fact, that is overwhelmingly the viewpoint. Only a few months ago Palestinians stated that peace could be obtained by Israel leaving Gaza. Now as you can see, there is no chance of that happening. If I were Israeli, I would build huge walls and not allow any Palestinians work visas. There is no chance of peace ever.
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Wow, bit of a controversial question, right? \n\nFrom what I've heard, most Middle Eastern nations protest the existence of Israel because its creation took away land from the Palestinians who had been living there. Yes, the land was originally given to Israel, but in the minds of Arabics, all that was 3000 years ago or so, and it shouldn't be valid any longer. \n\nPlus, many Palestinians are now living in refugee camps or have fled to other nations, and now those nations are having to help them/feed them, etc. The way the nations see it, if Israel had never been created, the nations wouldn't have this problem.
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Israel is a responsible democratic country whose nuclear weapons act a deterrent to the Arab/Muslim nations that wish to destroy it. Iran is an oppressive theocracy run by a raving lunatic.