GySgt said:
The Palestinians were there first?.......
The Hebrew (Jewish) kingdom was established in Palestine around 1000 B.C. They were subsequently invaded by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, and Alexander the Great. Arabs took it in 630 B.C. The Christian Crusades began. The Muslims ruled Israel until the 20th Century. The British took it from the Turks during WWI and governed the area under a League of Nations mandate in 1923. Hitler's genocide of 6 milliion jews brought increased international interests in a Jewish nation. The State of Israel was proclaimed by England and admitted to the UN in 1949. The U.S. recognized Israel within hours. The VERY NEXT day, Muslims from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq invaded. Israel has been fighting for their existence ever since. This is why during the Gulf War, Saddam was killing civillians by launching scuds at Isreal instead of at us. He wanted Israel to defend themselves, so he and the rest of the Muslims could turn it into one of their holy wars. We knew this and that is why we instructed Israel to stay neutral while we tried to knock out scuds with patriots before they impacted on Israeli civillians. Because we back Israel's right to exist, the Muslims can't do a thing about it except terrorize American civillians as a form of sick defiance and they mask it all under their religion and our foreign policy.
"If Israel wants peace, or at least for a lil while, they should just attack the palestinians and push them out."
For once, you agree with me, but this would bring Iran and Syria down from their perches and have to get directly involved. America no longer possess the unifying strength or resolve to finish a fight against evil that it once had.
When we say Palestinians do we just mean Arabs? Is there a Palestinian language or culture separate from Arabs?
To go back a little further..
"Canaan before the Hebrews - Canaan had been a collection of city-states, tributary to the Egyptian Pharaoh, as attested to in the Tel- El Amarna tablets. The breakup of the Egyptian empire beginning about 1500 BCE made possible the invasion of the Hebrews. The map shows the probable location of cities in Canaan about 1200 BCE.
Israel in Early Times - According to Hebrew tradition, 12 tribes entered Cana'an from Egypt and conquered it, led by Moses. Historical evidence from the Amarna tables suggests that there were already 'apiru' (probably Hebrews) in Canaanites in the time of Egyptian rule, some possibly with names such as "yakubu-el" (Jacob). The biblical account allots different parts of the land to the twelve tribes as shown in the maps. Soon after, a kingdom was established, first under Saul and then under David. The right-hand map shows the borders of the kingdom of David (about 1000 B.C.E. ) and other nations. The maps are necessarily conjectures based on biblical narrative and supporting archeology."
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I am coming around to thinking there will never be peace to these hereditary enemies.
According to the Bible in the time of Moses the philistines were pretty much declared the enemy of the people chosen to receive Gods will. They were beset with plagues, famines, bugs, and water contamination(by God).
How do you respond to something like that? Its understandable they would invent their own God and "Allah" would declare
them to be the enemies of the people chosen to receive Allah's will.
The Jews were enslaved at the beginning of this so if anyone owes anyone here its the Arabs but that is besides the point.
There has been a blame game going on here for thousands of years and the only answer is for someone to just drop it and move on.
I applaud Israeli leadership for making a tremendous showing of class (at huge risk) for the recent land exchange but the Leaders of the Palestinians appear to be showing their lack of class in response.
It is a shame Islam is devoid of choice or free will but that what you get from a religion founded by a selfish, demented, homicidal, pedophile, rapist, for the sole purpose of controlling Arabs, Persians and Byzantines.
Islam is a tremendous success for its intended purpose or a tremendous failure to humanity depending on your perspective.
