Why on earth can't the Palestinians and the Isralies get it right?
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The Palestinians and the Isralies can't get it right on earth and outside earth as well. They are like 2 magnets placed next to each others. The israeliens have attacked the holy land of the palestinians, they call it the land of their ancestors, as if the palestinians are so naives. The invasion has always been countered by strong defence, while Israel always uses massives offence. \nThere can never be peace in the middle east not in the world as long as the united states isn't minding her own business. USA doesn't want peace in the area, she wants Israel to keep killing innocent palestinians people and stealing their land. No wonder there is so much suicidal attempts. Not one single palestinian can ever accept the excistence of Israel where it doesn't belong. \nThe story of the Status of Ibrahim is extremely ironic. The jews have attempted many times the destruction of the Aksa, and now they are digging beneath it. Not only Palestine can't get it right with Israel but many other nations including lebanon and syria an iran. Egypt was an exemple of the strong warrior against Israel but now it's peace, and look what Egypt has payed for it, the bombing of Sharam el Sheikh and Sinaa. \nSo you see, if you make peace with Israel, you'll be bombed, and if u are at war with Israel, you'll be bombed.\nThe only solution is to get rid of Israel once and for all, and victory isn't very far now.
261241
Is peace humanly possible?  Yes.\n\nWill it happen in between Israel and the Palestinians?  Not in the way things are currently being run:\n   - Palestinian's Rulung Party, the Hamas, have demanded control over thier own land for the last 39 years (since 67), now that Israel has removed thier citizens from Gaza, Hamas has celebrated its freedom, but complains that Israel will not let thier people travel to and from... which is funny because they admitt their goal is to eliminate the Israelis alltogether.  \n\nSo if peace was to happen... both sides would have to prove to one another they were serious about peace.  This isn't some perfect world, so it is not like the Israeli governement would be willing to just lay down all thier arms in order to establish peace with the Palestinians... they know the second they do that Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq would attach full-force.  So it will havce to be a slow process of give and take with the Palestinians and the Israelies each giving up thier rights in order to establish peace.  \n\nWith Hamas in control of Palestinian areas, it won't happen though.
746564
cause UK and the UN has gave themselves the right to give away to the jews something they dont own,despite the will of the ppl who own it.\nand then the jews wanted also to drive the real owners of the place out!!!\nThats why war btw Muslims & israeli will continue till the jews get out of this land that dont belong to them,or at least accept to live in peace under the control of the palastinians who r the real owners of the land.
1093139
This is what they usually do.They could not care less if it's civilians or militants they kill as long as they are Palestinians.\nAnyway they said it was a "mistake" but they seem to do many "mistakes" like this one.
375092
I agree, it's totally inconsistent.  We make a big noise about democracy in the Middle East but then when the Palestinians freely elect a government we don't like, then we try to boycott it.
753202
I agree with you completely....\nWhen the Muslim controlled Jerusalem, they built mosques over Jewish and Christian holy sites, and covered the Western Wall (of the Temple) with trash by turning it into a garbage dump.\nThey say over and over that they want to push all the Jews into the sea, and that Israel has no right to exist.\nYet the state of Israel INSISTS on negotiating with the poeple who seek its destruction.  ARE THEY NUTS???????
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No, they are not terrorist. Think about this. They have lived on that particular land for over 1,200 years! Before  Jews decided to take over the land in 1948 they were the majority in all aspects. Britain, not a rightful owner either, sold much of their land to Eastern European Jewish converts and the rest is history. Palestinians never really got a say in any of this drama. Western Europeans sold the land to Eastern Europeans. It's a pretty damn common theme in the world, and frankly, I'm freakin sick of it to tell you the truth! Leave people a freakin lone! If the so called Jews of today belong anywhere, it's back in Europe where they were run out out in first place. If anyone owes the Jews anything, it's Germany and the other countries that supported the Holocaust. Not Palestinians!
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If you were naive enough to believe what you hear on the news and media, you would think there is an entity called a "Palestinian people," who lived in a "country/state/area" called Palestine since Canaanite/Biblical/Muslim times. You would almost believe that the Israelis occupied "Palestine" in 1967. And you might even think that the Palestinians want the occupiers out of their land. And of course, you might feel, they are entitled to do whatever it takes to get their land back.  No?  No.  Not at all,  Here are the facts. \n\nWho are the Palestinians? Palestinians are Arabs. They have no historical, national or cultural identity distinct from other Arabs of the region. Most of them came into Palestine in search of economic opportunities after World War I when the British and the Jews began to build up a land that was moribund. \n\nWhat is Palestine? When the Romans conquered Judea, they renamed it Palestine. Since then, no occupying power ever made it an independent state or established a capital in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the province of Syria. \n\nAfter World War I, the area was mandated to Britain to establish a Jewish national home.  Instead, in 1922, Britain split off 75% of Palestine to establish the Emirate of Transjordan, as a throne for the Arabian Hashemite family. \n\nThe UN decided to split the remaining 25% of Palestine between Jews and Arabs.  In 1948, five Arab armies attacked the newborn State of Israel.  Transjordan annexed the area intended for an Arab state, and renamed itself the Kingdom of Jordan, calling the annexed area the West Bank.  Egypt took over Gaza.  No Arab suggested making the West Bank and/or Gaza into yet another Arab state until 1967, when Israel was again attacked by the Arabs and took these areas. \n\nWhether or not she chooses to exercise the right, Israel owns the West Bank by right of conquest and by biblical rights.  Before 1967, the last previous legal owner was the Ottoman Empire. And Turkey, heir to the Ottomans, has never asked for it back.
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First I'm inclined to think it was a mistake, but the purpose for the withdraw or giving of land to the Palestinian people was to try and work towards a peace.  Israel was to give up this strip of land and remove its settlers from it, and the Palestinians we're to reign in the terrorist who constantly bomb the Israelis.  We'll see if it works. I don't think it will.
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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.
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Why does Pakistan think they can just STEAL land, they are as bad as Palestine
371765
guys its palestinian's land and israel got no right simply like immegrated shouldnt kill natives,but the differnce that israelian stell kill palestenians and also say that they r the 1 who face terror and the worst people believes!how stupid!
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There is really only one way to perceive it: as successful. I've never heard of a non violent protest failing. It doesn't stop other people from reacting violently; but given enough patience and time, it always works. It did for Gandhi, it did for the American civil rights movement, and I think if the Palestinians really want to accomplish anything, they should be the next to try it.
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It's not that they are the only ones who are "allowed." It's that they are the only ones who don't try to improve their standards of living, their acceptance of others in the vicinity, etc. The Jews were murdered by millions, driven out of their homes, persecuted and downgraded for YEARS, yet they build cities and flourish and take care of their own and keep striving to live a good life. Their neighbors don't have the same organization or energy or work ethic or good leaders, so they react with jealousy and fighting and complaining and trying to live off what their neighbors have. They try to pull off looking victimized when they are only victims of themselves. The Palestinians could make changes and go forward but unfortunately, they think they're always right as they stand.
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Dear derekmleiniger,\n\nYour analogy is totally wrong. Unlike English and other establishers of USA, Israelis started to kill the Palestinians grabbing their land and not ready to give any rights to them. The only reason that Palestinians are facing hard time is that they don't have any port and can't do business activities independently. \n\nWhile only reason Israelis look flourishing is the aid sent by the oversees Jews as well as hefty amount of $ 3 billion from US only.\n\nFollowing is an account of Israel's leaders, you can find it very different compares to people who came to US:\n\n\n\n"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."\n-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.   From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.\n\n"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"\n-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.\n\n"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."\n-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.\n\n \nDavid Ben Gurion\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1949 - 1954,\n1955 - 1963\n\n  \n"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."\n-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.\n  \nBenjamin Netanyahu\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1996 - 1999\n"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... \n-- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000\n\n"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."\n-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000. \n\n"I would have joined a terrorist organization."\n-- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.\n \n \nEhud Barak\nPrime Minister of Israel\n1999 - 2001\n  \n"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.\n\n"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."\n-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. \n\n"Israel may have the right to put others on trial,
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Ok, so basically this is an issue that no one will ever be able to answer. Seeing as how this "holy" war has been occurring for the last few decades or so, I think it all comes down to who was there first. Think about it. If I stormed into your house tonight and demanded that everyone get out - what would you do? If you saw your wife and daughter raped and mutilated - what would you do? If you son was walking home from school, throws a rock at a tank and is shot dead - what would you do? This is what happens EVERY single time. Naturally, the Palestinian people must retaliate. And then they get blamed. So, what does it come down to? Territory. Man is territorial by nature and is greedy - the more the better. Hence, the never ending Isreal-Palestine war.
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Palestine is the one who signs the peace treaty then fires a crappy rocket into Israel because you cant police Palestine. then Israel comes with their high tech war jets and destroys you, i think that's why you re upset because you cant win against Israel and resort to cheap gorilla tactics against citizens