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Originally posted by Rezwar
How can you have peace when you elect a government that is dedicated to cowardly attacks on civilians?
Originally posted by lunarminer
Let's bring this debate up to the 21st century or at least the 20th century.
Israel was created by UN mandate.
If you hate Israel then you must really hate the UN for creating it.
So far, I have seen no serioius attempt to reverse the UN mandate that created the state of Israel, and so it is a legitimate, recognized, nation. It therefore has all the rights of statehood, something that the "Palestinians" lack.
Most of the "Palestinians" are in fact Egyptians in the case of Gaza, Jordanians in the case of the West Bank, and Syrians in the case of the Golan Heights.
So if these poor oppressed "Palestinians are seeking a homeland. Why don't we help them out and return Gaza to Egypt, the West Bank to Jordan, and the Golan Heights to Syria? It seems to me that, that should solve the problem.
The only problem with that is that Jordan kicked the "Palestinians" out back in the 60's when they tried to topple the Jordanian government. So, Jordan is content to leave them where they are. Egypt also has abandoned claims on the Gaza strip because they don't want to deal with the crazed idiot in Hamas. Syria would like the Golan Heights back but only so their rockets can reach farther into Israel.
Seems to me that the current state of international affairs favors the Israeli position.
By the way, on the question of lineage. The earth's population has been mixed so completely over the past 500 or so years that we all have a little Abraham in us.
Israel wasn't the only nation created out of the 'British Mandate' in 1948. Most of the 'British Mandate' was used to create an Arab nation called "Trans-Jordan". Trans-Jordan was present day Jordan plus "the West Bank", which Jordan abandoned. Many times since the Six Day War, Israel tried to get Jordan to take back "the West Bank" minus Jerusalem, but they refused.
Originally posted by lunarminer
reply to post by breakingdradles
You do realize of course that the Arabs invaded the area back in the 9th century or so. In that case they are no different than the Romans or the Greeks.
Hey I have an idea! Let's return the whole area to the Greeks! It seems that their claims should be more legitimate than the Arabs, since the Greeks got there a thousand years earlier.