Your views on the Israel - Palestine Situation.

Good question Djarums, the extremists need to go, on both sides, their hatred is too poor, they need to lose hope. Somehow normal Israeli's and Palestinians need to come together and show the extremists that they will not stand for this any longer.
If i was a Palestinian, I would go and talk to some Israelis, and vice versa.

If you were each side, what would you (in your desire for peace) do? Which can be translated to mean "What do you think each side should do to attain peace"

Good question. I don't want to say what each side should do now, but if I were from Palestine or Israel I would probably try to organize myself with other people from both sides. I believe it�s important that people from both Israel and Palestine work together instead of fronting against each other in their fight for peace. Try to create a strong movement of people from both Israel and Palestine and try to fight the violence from both sides without using violence ourselves

I would work together to make a better Israel by making a better Palestine. Give them statehood and work TOGETHER to make both the countries a shining example of cooperation and forgiveness.

Imagine if they could focus all the attention they do on each other on something productive. It would be the best place on earth to live, and the cultural and religious epicenter of the world for millions.

But first Israel needs to give them the land they legally own and deserve. Get rid of illegal settlements. If that means actually following some UN resolutions instead of ignoring them, so be it.

And ditto for the Palestinians. They would have to start up a good strike force to specifically STUDY and stop terrorism, striking at the root of it by making any group that espouses any kind of violence against anyone as illegal. And prosecute the hell out of anyone who breaks that law.

Maybe even an international force of terrorism experts, who work in conjunction with Interpol, the FBI and other international law enforcement agencies and who PROSECUTE people in court for any Palestinian militant terrorism, exposing their crimes in detail to the world. Then lock them away forever.

Heck, I'm sure Israel would even be willing to lend them some guns and helicopters to do it if they could prove their good intentions.

But it would all have to start with Palestinian statehood.

And that's a tough one to see happening any time soon.


jakomo

[Edited on 7-10-2003 by Jakomo]

In my opinion, the best way to start is on the ground. Having been in Israel, I know for a fact that more often than not Israeli average citizens and Palestinian average citizens get along. If I were a resident of either group my first action would be to pull together at the local, grassroots level, and show the leaders on both sides that I don't want this crap anymore. A mass message of unity sent out to both sides would be the hardest punch in the face to the leadership possible and would show them that the PEOPLE don't want this fighting to go on anymore.