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Originally Posted by Danzig
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.
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There would have never been a problem if the Arabs would have accepted the original land split. If you keep declaring war and you keep losing the wars, you will probably lose some land. By the way, much of the land taken was land that wasbeing used to wage attacks. It was strategic land. I'll bet if Canada kept waging war on us and they kept attacking us from a hill by the border, at some point we would probably take that hill by the border.
All this stuff happened 40-60 years ago. I think people need to move on. Mexico is not still crying over the land that we took from them. I think most people in the US are pro-Israel. But there are certainly some people that are extremely pro-Palestinian and they think that Israel should give land back to the Palestinians. I wonder if these same people would be in favor of us giving a lot of land back to Mexico and back to the Indians.
With regard to Iraq and Kuwait, Iraq attacked Kuwait and tried to take their land. If it was the other way around and Kuwait had attacked Iraq, I don't think people would have complained if Iraq was victorious and took some land away from Kuwait.
Here is some good info about the whole Israel/Palestinian conflict:
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/p...nian_truth.htm