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Palestine and Israel - the facts. Who's land is it?

1918 - British expell Turkish Ottoman forces from Palestine - Arab territory

1937 - Britain recommends partitioning of this territory into a Jewish state and an Arab one. Palestinians reject the partitioning of their land.

1948 - Jewish and Arab armies stage attacks on each others territories. Jewish forces seize areas allotted to Jewish state and declare state of Israel.

1967 - Six Day War - Israel occupies the West Bank, Golan Heights, Arab East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip - these territories were allotted to the Palestinians as part of the deal!

1993 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arrafat shake hands on the Oslo accords, allowing limited Palestian autonomy

2005 - Ariel Sharon and Mahmood Abbas declare a ceasefire. Israel pulls troops and settlers out of West Bank and Gaza

2007 - Secular Fatah is democratically voted out in Gaza. Hamas is elected. Israel intensifies economic blockade.

2008 - Hamas agrees six month ceasefire with Israel.

Continued sanctions against the Palestinians have kept Hamas alive with new recruits. Starvation, malnutrition, lack of aid and medicine to the Palestinians is used by Hamas to justify the continued firing of crude rockets at Israel.

Those are the facts. So having read them, who does Israel belong to. That is the timeline of the history of the troubles in Palestine between the Israelis and Palestinians. That land was Arab and then the British partitioned it after the war because they felt guilty about what Hitler did to the Jews. The question is, why did the poor Arabs have to pay by having their land seized? And why does America support this unjust situation?

Iv'e tried to do Americans a favour here. Iv'e told them the FACTS, something that their government has been unwilling to do, ever! Maybe those who read this can now have an informed opinion based on the truth and not more spin from the White house and lies from their Jewish controlled media.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Your information contains many inaccuracies and omissions-

    1918 - "Arab territory" - by what definition exactly? most of the lands were bought and paid for by Jews.

    1948 - Israel declares independence in the area defined by the UN partition plan and is INVADED by surrounding Arab countries.

    1967 - Israel is attacked by surrounding Arab armies, pushes them back and conquers some of the land. Under no international standard must a country return the spoils of war it has won by being attacked.

  • quimby
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    what variety of school are you going to? they elect you to do a undertaking on why over a million Palestinians could be kicked off of their land and it is going to settle for to Israel? at the start which will in no way take place. precise now Israel is occupying extra land then what the UN partitioned to them in 1948. The occupation of the Gaza strip and the West financial company is an unlawful one under international regulation. no rely what everybody else is asserting approximately why it is going to develop into component to Israel it continues to be unlawful. That land became into no longer given to Israel by skill of the UN and there is not any longer one single reason everybody substances you approximately why they could get it. So possibly you are able to exchange the priority of your undertaking to make it approximately why Isreal shouldn't get the land that belongs to the Palestinian people, that is an much less complicated and extra honest undertaking to do. indexed under are some motives: - The land that's favourite as Palestine became into no longer partitioned to Israel by skill of the UN and hence they have no precise to take it. - it may be unlawful for Israel to objective to take it - Taking it may reason Israel problems with the international community. - There could be extra violence then there already is - the place could the Palestinians residing there pass? and don't be so naive to think of that they can pass to a diverse Arab us of a by using fact those countries won't enable them to come again and that they should not be compelled to pass away their place of beginning besides. - there is absolutly no talk with different countries who're attempting to remedy the priority approximately Israel taking all the land. - in spite of anybody is asserting on the subject of the bible this is not a historic rfile this is non secular rfile and one that many people do no longer adhere to or supply any significants to there is not any data that even one observe in that e book is genuine. confident i understand that yet they'll pass decrease back to occupying it in 3 days or 3 weeks or 3 months besides its continually temporary and then this is going to likely be unlawful lower back.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is Palestinians that are under occupation. It’s their land that has been take. it is the Palestinians that have been ethnically cleansed and evicted from their land and home. Justice is that Palestinians are free from the river to the sea

    the oppressor, the killing, the terrorist, the racist/apartheid state is Israel.

    those claiming that 2000 years ago there was a jewish state should know that these jews in large numbers converted to islam and those that did not lived in peace with the christians and muslims.

    until the land invasion of militia and terrorist called the zionist.

    free free Palestine

    from the river to the sea

    no justice no peace

    Gaza has become the new Warsaw

    Israel the new apartheid state

    Zionism the new Nazism

    Long live the resistance

    for justice and peace one democratic state from the river to the sea for all.

    A brit for justice and peace

  • Dan
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Israels

  • 1 decade ago

    Dear! from your information,,, it 100% clear that the land belongs to Palestinians I mean it is Arab Territory... but why Israel are fighting they are being supported by the Americans to fight against them not only for the land but for their religion,,, culture and faith..., So concluding my answer I have to say publicly that the war is against Islam. whether it is in Palestine, Iraq or Afghanistan,,, and will spread very soon to the rest of the Islamic countries... but they are committing mistakes because very soon there forefather "America" will be broken in to pieces for 500 hundred centuries like Russia....

  • Kettu
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Right and Wrong is not always a matter of the facts.

    They both have a right to live there. Neither of them, I believe, should have the right to force each other off the land. They are both claiming it based on religious origins. This is making it a religious issue and meshing church and state. The US should not take sides in an issue of church and state, especially since they started two wars to try and separate them in Afghanistan and Iraq. They wanted to bring democracy to them.

    So I feel they are both wrong. Any country that supports either side is also wrong, in my opinion. We should support a unified nation there, neither Israel or Palestine, give it a new name and make them play nice. The Christians over there seem to not be killing anyone anymore. That only took what 7 crusades?

  • 1 decade ago

    The problem is the land has belonged to both - and both have a claim. It's pointless saying it should belong to the original owners - as then Normans, Vikings, Angles, Jutes etc would also have to give up their rights in England.

    It's not about arguing over things that will never be agreed, it should be about living together - it's about time Israel brought their walls down, and America stopped defending their atrocities - if this happened Hamas' power would be eliminated.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Let's see . . . . 2,000 years ago, Jesus taught in the temple . . . where?

    In Jerusalem . . the capital of the Jewish State.

    SO, . . . Israel was Israel . . . 2,000 years ago.

    That's good enough for me .. . . and . . . oh . . . the U.N. making it all nice and "official" helps.

    Thanks for the question.

    Dan in Miami

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What if some native americans would claim back some territory for an autonomous state with their own religion ? It would be the same situation.

  • cat
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Nice information's. When you ask me, this area belong the Palestinian people.

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