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J D asked in TravelAfrica & Middle EastIsrael · 1 decade ago

who is right? israel or palestine?

from all that i have heard and read, it seems that jewish people were given land in palestine by europeans to compensate for what hitler did to them and they in turn began to opress the palestinians. but i have not heard the other version as in how israel justifies its presence in palestine and how they justify their occupation of palestinian land, can anybody enlighten me?

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  • John E
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    The problem of this whole thing has an answer:

    It's not who owns the land. Maybe the Jews won a fair fight 60 years ago.

    The problem is of how they treat those unfortunate residents of Palestine that had been living there for thousands of years.

    So it's not a matter of a "divine contract" since the Muslims have nothing to do with that.

    To me the Jews have shown total incompetence in ruling a country.

    Their leaders prefer to use that never ending US dollar source for their personal vices and habits, showing the true colors of the Jewish Psyche, their soldiers have almost God-like authority on Palestinian subjects, something totally against each and every human right so far and they have made vast green spaces into desert, destroying orchards, vines, uprooting each and every tree on their way in order to build illegal settling accommodations.

    The Jews on that land pay ridiculous amounts of tax money.

    Tourists on a cruise visiting Israel after some gay and happy Greek Islands destinations can tell you about the misery and bad mood that exists on that land,spoiling the fun of the cruise at once.

    So in order to make a long story short, definately the Jews are unable to cope with ruling a country. Building walls around it is a medieval way of ruling.

    The Palestinians have every right to claim back that land, because they love it. Without nukes, pesticides, chemical industries,just like our Lord Jesus Christ would prefer to walk on it.

    Don't you forget that many Palestinians are Christians!

    Greetings

    Edit:

    If I am not mistaken the leader of the Palestinian side is Orthodox Christian. So I believe Christian Palestinians are regarded highly among the Arabs.

  • 1 decade ago

    open a textbook! or just a book, period. israel was not a compensation! the british occupied the area during wwii. they wanted help from the jews and arabs living there. there were jews there before the creation of israel because the jews have always considered it the land G-d gave to them. They lived there a long time ago also (during the romans, etc and i'll assume you know about the two temples). that's just a side point, so during wwii the british promised land to those who helped them and they made contradicting promises to both sides. in the end, when they left after wwii, the land was divided between the arabs and jews and the state of israel was created (im guessing you know about the UN voting). arabs were unwilling to accept the official jewish presence there and attacked in what is known as the war of independence. (before the creation of the state, there were many attacks on settlers as well, the animosity wasn't new). this was followed by the yom kippur war, the six day war ,none of which were started by the israelis. to answer your question directly, they don't need to justify anything because they aren't occupying "palestinian land" as you call it. it belonged to the british and then the israelis. and they didn't oppress anyone, they would have been content to live peacefully, but they had to defend themselves.

  • 1 decade ago

    The 'justification' for Israelis occupying this land stems from the time of the Old Testament. It was said that after Moses helped free the Jews from Egyptian slavery and oppression, that God granted them the land of Canaan, often referred to as the "Promised Land". This land of Canaan was the very place which Israel is today. Eventually, the Jews were expelled from Canaan by the Romans. Zionists have believed for centuries that the Jewish people would once again reclaim their divinely granted lands. There are other political reasons for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, but the Biblical reason is used as a justification and a catalyst for other decisions made that led to what has been a controversial debate, and a long, bloody conflict.

  • 1 decade ago

    It has nothing to do with Hitler; zionism began circa 1897 and when the jewish Agency was established in 1920 it openly declared it's intention of flooding Palestine with "secular" jews and forcing out the people of Palestine. That is a quarter of a century before your holocaust bit. I believe in political self-determination. I don't care how much money the Brits got in war loans from Maurice Rothschild,this land belongs to it's people - the Palestinians.

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  • 1 decade ago

    jews are right, but they both are doing some wrong. jews have the main right to the land because in the beginning that is where the jews were. just read the tanach. anyways israel which used to be considered palestine used to be considered canaan. there needs to be some peace though but israelis have a right to their land.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Of course Palestine.

  • 4 years ago

    Ask God, God knows all.

  • _
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Palestine is the old name for Israel. There is no occupation, the occupations ended in 1967, parts of Israel were occupied by Jordan and Egypt from 1948 to 1967. There are no refugees, these so called refugees are arabs who followed orders of their leaders to leave Israel if they did not want to take part in annihilating the Jews as they were ordered to in 1948 and promised swift victory.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The truth is that before Yassir Arafat came along and started the PLO, the people living in Palestine were the Jews. They were called "The Jews of Palestine." A little known fact, the Palestinians were actually the Jewish people living in Palestine. Arafat encouraged the Arabs living there to claim Palestine. Israel it is.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The fact that Isra'el exists is a miracle, that should tell you that Isra'el

    the Land is an appointed Land. Everyone can fight as much as they like, but Isra'el will go straight back to Isra'el.

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