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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I was not implying that you were codemning Israel. I was saying that much of the world was against Israel.
Ever since 1948, the Arabs were never willing to accept a Jewish state in that area, even though Jews have a history in that area dating back thousands of years. Ever since 1948, the Arabs have been militarily attacking Israel. Practically every time this has happened, the Arabs ended up losing some land as a result. Most of the countries that engaged in the attacks on Israel have finally gotten smart and stopped attacking Israel. The Palestinians are the only ones that keep attacking Israel. They want some of the land back that they lost in previous wars. The Palestinians don't even recognize Israel's right to exist.
I think Israel would be crazy to give any land back. Why would you give land to people who say they want to destroy you? It would be one thing if the Palestinians accepted Israel's right to exist and wanted to co-exist in peace. But that is not the case. The Palestinians have continuously repeated their position for years that they do no accept Israel and they want to destroy them. If you owned some disputed property would you give some of that property to a person who says that their goal is to kill you?
By the way, one thing that many people forget is that the Palestinians are not some distinct people. They are Arabs. Some of them are Egyptians, some are Jordanians, some are Lebanese, some are Syrian, etc. Like I said before, the Arabs have 99% of the land in the Middle East. Israel has 1%, yet people think Israel needs to give some of that land back to the Arabs. It is absurd.
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i just didn't realize that the original intent was for that land to be split between the two. that hasn't happened. is it giving land back if it wasn't supposed to be held to begin with? i get that israel was attacked-does that justify holding land that is supposed to belong to the palestinians? should palestine essentially be punished because other countries attacked israel? i don't know. i don't know if anyone knows. it's a bad situation all the way around.
and the highlighted...the palestinians want the homeland they were promised. it has nothing to do with whether they are arabs or not.
hell, we sure didn't tell the kuwaitis they could live elsewhere when iraq invaded. they're all arabs too.