Political crossfire

[Abdullah]

With who are you palestinains or isreali's.... plz say why!!

[Abdullah]

Im with palestinian, because its their land and the isreali's techniqually came into palestine and took over it..... i could show you pix n statistic that you wouldnt even believe!!

[Luke]

Edited: - Not helpful, and just plain insulting.

[Abdullah]

i do .... n i would like to know how other ppl think so if u dnt care dnt post

[clueless]

I stand with all those fighting for justice. I believe the Palestinians are entitled to their own land, meaning Israel needs to stop illegally occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip. I also believe Israel does have a right to exist as an independant state, just like Palestine has a right to exist as an independant state.

[Abdullah]

but why should Israel take palestinian land?

[clueless]

They shouldn't. The Israeli state can by all means function behind the '67 borders set down by the UN, i don't really care. What i do object to is the illegal occupation of Israel on Palestinian land.

[Abdullah]

and i agree with you on that.....but most people dont know whats happenin in palestine these day, the number o children dying, the number of trees being cut, the number of houses being demolished.......most people outside the middle-east are clueless about the issues happenin in Palestine....

[clueless]

Yeah, that's true. Unfortunately. If your only source of news is going to be the BBC, CNN and other Western outlets, you aren't going to get the true full story of what is happening on the ground.

[gprime]

There is no such thing as the 'Palestinians'. They are Jordanians and Egyptians who lived in Jewish land that had been unfairly occupied by Israel's violent Muslim neighbors, and was finally regained in '67. They had no right to live there, and their instances of terrorism only further the validity of population transfer movements like Revava and Kach. Now, I'm no longer religious, but I value the lives of innocent Israelis more than I do a pile of terrorists. So, when Rav Hillel Leiberman h"yd once said: "Let's just kill them already, and then we'll decide which mitzvah we fulfiled - if it was Amalek, 7 Nations, or stam enemy...", I'd agree.

[Patriot1776]

Neither.

This war goes back thousands of years. Technically the land originally belonged to the Israelites, but the Palestinians (Known as the Philistines at that point) stole the land from the Israelites.

It flip-flopped back and forth from that point.

Things settled down a tiny bit, but then sparked all over again when Israel became an official nation.

If I had to choose a side I would say Israel, but this war has been going on for too long to really take sides. Now it is more of a vengeance war. Many people have probably forgotten what the war was about in the first place.

(Ex. Israel destroys a building, so Palestine sends suicide bombers over, then Israel responds to that. It just keeps going on.)