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Annie, If you will check your history, you will find that Israel was attacked by Egypt and Jordan- without provocation. The results of that llittle skirmish was that Israel wound up occupying what is now called The West Bank and The Gaza Strip, which had been a part of the respective countries. Israel kept them as a matter of tactical stategy to keep Egypt and Jordan at bay. Israel didn't go after those places, but took them in the course of war. |
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How far back in history do we want to go back? If just one step further back, then we have to ask how Israel was created in the first place? Gaza and West Bank taken in the course of war is fine, argument-wise, but what about the underlying issue, that is the rights of the Palestininans to have a place to call their own? |
Israel is really looking for trouble. Maybe they are confident because US troops are nearby?
From CSMonitor:
On West Bank, fear of 'dangerous precedent'
The first mass expulsion of Palestinians in over two years of fighting
with Israel. By Ben Lynfield
https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0407/p07s02-wome.html
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Israel is really looking for trouble. Maybe they are confident because US troops are nearby? From CSMonitor: On West Bank, fear of 'dangerous precedent' The first mass expulsion of Palestinians in over two years of fighting with Israel. By Ben Lynfield https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0407/p07s02-wome.html |
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Israel is really looking for trouble. Maybe they are confident because US troops are nearby? |
True Fireduck but both sides are guilty of the same crime...as we discussed before, both sides want to live this way, of course, there are people who wants the peace but the majority of them are not willing to negotiate seriously for peace in that region.
Fireduck,
Although I admire your concern over people dying, you have to look the thing right in the eyeball. You have to look at the cold, hard facts.
The Palestinians go around bombing school busses filled with children, shopping malls where women and children, unarmed mind you, are going about their daily business.
They even take their own pre-teenage children, strap bombs on them and send them in to die.
These are not valiant soldiers facing down the Israeli soldiers. If they were, the US would have acted on their behalf long ago. We admire warriors, and warriors who face a superior enemy have a special place in our hearts.
Conversely, we despise cowards, we especially despise those who attack unarmed people, and then whine when retribution comes to them.
If there is ever to be hope for the Palestinian people, the Palestinian people themselves are going to have to arrest and convict Hamas, Hesbollah, EntaFada and the rest.
Otherwise, we feel that what Israel is doing is perfectly justified.
If it were me, I would have sent an F-16 right down the Gaza Strip long ago and entirely wiped Hamas out- along with everyone else who gives them implicit support.
I could have stopped that conflict long ago with a few bombing runs.
@ Stranger, I agree with this save one point, you cannot expect them to fighting soldiers if they do not have any army (not allowed to) or any significant weaponry. I believe the common man is just going with the flow because of oppression. Those that need to answer is the leadership. Take them out, bring in fresh blood that will not hide these zealous groups and then there will be a significant change.
Anyways, really all that we talk here is of no consequence since there will never be peace in the Middle East.