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Originally Posted by ruderalis88
it's not about Jews and Muslims (Judaism is an older religion than Islam, but the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt/Greece/Rome are even older - doesn't make them much more or less correct). It should not be about religion, but about nationality. It is about Israel bullying the surrounding Arab nations. Many would agree when i say that Israel was allowed to be created because of a great feeling of guilt by the international community over the treatment the Jewish people had been subjected to throughout the Second World War. The US are not solely to blame, although they were most certainly involved; every UN country in 1948 had a hand in it too.
This was followed by a bit of this and a bit of that, but the end word must be that Palestine is now essentially the world's largest open air prison. The people of Palestine DO NOT DESERVE the treatment they receive. Israel's government needs to be held to account for its terrible crimes but I doubt that will happen any time soon. It is a sad fact, but Muslims are the new Jews in terms of racism and unfair international opinion.
Yasser Arafat once said "I come bearing the olive branch of peace in one hand, and in the other a machine gun. Do not allow me to drop the olive branch"
It was the fault of the Israeli government that violence became the main language spoken between the two nations.
And Jordan has really very little to do with it. Just as Iraq has really very little to do with Iran and vice versa. Just as Spain has really very little to do with France.
Good thread medicineman.
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Actually neither Greece nor Rome have a longer history than the Jewish. Their history is more or less tracked back over 5,000 years, as can be verified by their calendar. It is quite possible that their beliefs in monotheism track back longer than that, though there is also the possiblity that they borrowed monotheism from the Zoroastrianism of abylon.
Though their religion is not really in debate. Their right to Israel is, and in that case, as it was through the intervention of Rome that they fled their land it is only fitting that what was once, quite possibly, a secessor to the Roman Empire (Britain) should use its power to restore them to their proper lands.
Here's a simple way to look at it. As long as you pay your property taxes it does not matter if you leave your land, it will still be your land. To hold that a people that were driven from their land by outside forces no longer has claim to their land is asinine, and absurd. By your logic New Orleans should have become open for any one that wanted to move there the moment its inhabitants sought refuge outside of the city.
Furthermore, the United States, in its support of Israel is perhaps showing that we have learned from the mistakes of our past and our treatment of the Amerindians. It can only be held up as supremely ironic (and stupid) that we, the inhabitants of a stolen land ourselves, believe we have any moral prerogative to dictate what Israel must, or must not, do.
Besides, after 9-11 who really cares what the Middle East thinks.