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Originally Posted by ChChoda
The Israelis were there first and the British started it. Does that make Israel easier to accept?
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I will never find Israel easy to accept as long as their government see fit to murder innocent civilians, including children, and bomb hospitals and schools.
I may have been ambiguous earlier - i don't think the entire state of Israel should be abolished. I think the people of Palestine should be allowed back onto their land and that the should be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. They are not second-rate citizens of the world and they do not deserve to be imprisoned and shot at like fish in a barrel.
State your sources for your claims. If you're talking about the Israelites of Canaan and Egypt, who are thought to have been turned into "The lost tribes of Israel" by the Assyrians in approx 720 BC, my opinion is that not all history from that time can be verified and that which can is vague at best.
If you're talking about the "Land of Israel" as in the Bible and presumably the Torah, then i disregard religious writings as historical fact. Beliefs and faith are not the same as fact or truth.
The British didn't start it until '48, so i don't think both your statements can be simultaneously true. And while yes, they did, every other western country has allowed it to continue by not forcing the two nations into and agreement (i realise this contradicts the "they started it" rule but just because i think that counts for something, doesn't mean i think it's the only thing that does)
My opinions on the matter in question obviously are quite different to yours, i've more or less run out of stuff that i actually know about to say and i refuse to start spouting the results of google searches.
In fact, i might even +rep you for being the first person on this forum with whom i've had a reasonably sensible debate without it deteriorating into an insult slinging competition. Good work on not being an arsewipe, even though i disagree with your opinions.