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Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I disagree.
Why is is that Israel should have to move?
Why is is that Israel should have to move?
Originally posted by rigel4
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I disagree.
Why is is that Israel should have to move?
Israel was created in 1947. Thats not very long ago hitorically speaking.
Would you rather the entire middle east moved?
It's exactly this kind of attitude that will never(in all likelyhood), solve the Arab
Israeli conflict.
(Why Should I).Well I tell you why. You and your people are endangering the lives of millions.
Do you think your people are worth that? ( I am Assuming you're Jewish).
I am British, so I have to take some responsability on behalf of my goverment for creating this mess in the first place.
If you want peace, then by relocating, you will be able to find it.
The Arabs will have none left to fight with. History then can get on with making
new History, one where children aren't being killed in droves by bloody war, over a tiny peace of real estate.
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
reply to post by rigel4
Ethnic cleansing doesn't sound like a great idea. You're talking about forcibly relocating almost eight million people, expropriating most of their property and probably rendering them effectively stateless in the process. A lot of families have lived there for generations, before anyone even thought of Zionism, and you're advocating giving their property "back" to people who don't and have never owned it. All as some sort of final solution to a problem that isn't even Israel's fault.
I take back what I said on the ancient nuclear war thread. All of this has happened before.edit on 27-11-2011 by FurvusRexCaeli because: redundundant
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I disagree.
Why is is that Israel should have to move?
Following the 1947 United Nations decision to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared Israel a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine.
Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs.
According to the Hebrew Bible the name "Israel" was given to the patriarch Jacob after he successfully wrestled with an angel of God. Jacob's twelve sons became the ancestors of the Israelites, also known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel or Children of Israel. Jacob and his sons had lived in Canaan but were forced by famine to go into Egypt for four generations until Moses, a great-great grandson of Jacob, led the Israelites back into Canaan in the "Exodus"
According to the Torah, God promised the land to the three Patriarchs of the Jewish people.
Between the fall of the northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE and the Muslim conquests of the 7th century CE (a period of over 1500 years), the region came under Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Sassanid, and Byzantine rule.
Jewish presence in the region significantly dwindled after the failure of the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE
The Jewish Legion, a group primarily of Zionist volunteers, assisted in the British conquest of Palestine in 1917. Arab opposition to British rule and Jewish immigration led to the 1920 Palestine riots and the formation of a jewish militia known as the Haganah ("The Defense"), from which the Irgun and Lehi, or Stern Gang, paramilitary groups later split off.
During World War I, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter that stated:[67]
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
"ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations"
Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I think your plan is a bit simpleminded. It does, indeed, sound like something "children" could come up with, as you claimed in your original post.
Egypt, Iran, Hamas, Hezzbollah, Syria, the list is endless, the magnitude of the possable computations that would lead to Israel being destroyed along with other countries is mind bogglingly complex. Today there seems no way out, sooner or later, the inevitable will come to pass.
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
Won't work. God gave that land to the Jews. It is their land, not yours to give away or take away.