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Should Israel recognize the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip as Palestine?
Should Israel relinquish some of its territory in the name of peace?
Should Palestine recognize Israel?
I'm not asking about if it will happen, all I'm asking is SHOULD it happen.
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- m iLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
The Golan Heights should be returned to Syria. Israel should recognize all the remaining occupied territories, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza as Palestine. None of these territories are part of Israel.
Yes, Israel should relinquish some of its territory in the name of peace, about 1/3 of what is commonly known as Israel, that is Israel within the 1949 armistice lines, was also taken 1948-1949 in a war of conquest. But even more important, it should allow back the peoples it forced out in 1947 and later. Mostly in 1948, Israel or its founders conducted a campaign of mass murder and terror against civilians in order to establish a Jewish majority. Prior to that, Jews were a minority in the area now considered Israel.
Palestine does recognize Israel. It hasn't achieved freedom or human rights for Palestinians. Israel continues to arbitrarily kill, arrest, confiscate property from, and exile Palestinians from their land. So no, Palestine shouldn't recognize Israel until a just peace is obtained
Source(s): http://www.stopthewall.org/ http://www.palestinemonitor.org/ http://www.palestineremembered.com/ http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/ http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/spe... http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/... - 1 decade ago
No.
Both Arabs and Jews, and the rest of the world, should recognize all of what is now Israel, the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Gaza TOGETHER as provinces of a united, explicitly secular and non-ethnic, socialist republic.
Representation, and rights, for all is the only answer. Neither Jews nor Arabs can survive much longer in the modern world as oppressor and victim, or even as squabbling ethnic nationalists.
The day of Zionist apartheid enforced by jet and by jackboot, and of the Palestinian nationalist resistance bomb, is over and done with.
The area is by nature a single nation, worthy of a single state, regardless of the hatreds deliberately planted between the two peoples who now live there. These hatreds were planted, and nurtured, by the Western banks, whose creature Israel is, and who support the Arab despots, and who finance the oil purchases.
It's getting to the point where it will be unite or die for both peoples.
And we have over sixty years of examples of the current arrangement being unworkable.
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- MichaelLv 61 decade ago
Hell no! When the entire area that was once Israel was divided , they gave 80% of the land to the " Palestinians" ( not really any such thing). That land is now known as Jordan. That tiny little bit of land left was given BACK to the Jewish people. After the Arabs attacked and got their butts kicked , they lost a small bit of land that Israel took for strategic purposes. You lose a war you lose some property. That's how it always is.
Jordan should have taken those people in since it was their war and aggression that started it and since that land was part of Jordan. The so called " Palestinians" are just displaced Jordanians and in the case of the Gaza strip ( which Israel already left) Egyptians.
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
Let this B decided between Israel and Palestine peoples, land for peace has not worked.
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- John HinkleLv 71 decade ago
What I find interesting is how so many support a Palestinian state at Israels detriment but few if any EVER suggest that Egypt, Syria etc give up their land.
Why not demand Iran give up a chunk of their country or Egypt or anyone of a host of other Muslim dominated countries to form a Palestinian state.
Then the next question is if Israel does, where should it stop, should the US be forced to give Texas and half of California back to Mexico, do we nullify the Louisiana purchase, do all boarders revert back to some arbitrary date and who sets that date.
So NO Israel should not.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't know. Want to take a trip there and survey the area? Research what is at stake- like water rights and arable land. Israel needs to give them land that they can work with- not just a fake offer for pity sake.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Golan Heights Palestine ???? it was taken from syria not from jordan. and palestinians are from jordan, they just left outside because of their king.
Israel should give back lands but not strategic lands.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No.
There is no such thing as peace when it comes to the Palestinians. Israel tried to have peace in the past and the Palestinians murdered some Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's not going to come to a peace agreement. There will be a full on war between the two. Only then will it be settled.
Source(s): realism - hexaLv 61 decade ago
Hell no, it wouldn't satisfy them any way they would still want to kill the Jews and that would give them a better chance, and leave Israel unprotected. People have been trying to destroy the Jews since Abraham, it's satanic.