Please explain. Why is it so important to Israel that Palestine accept them as a State?

Hello rare2findd,

The Palestinian National Charter would expel most Jews living in the State of Israel.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp

Consequently, mutual recognition, and a peace treaty is essential so that such threats can be removed and the two sides become good neighbours.

I notice however, from your comments that you lack some information about this dispute and so I hope the following will assist you:

The last "indigenous" state (meaning run by the natives rather than by a foreign power) that comprised the area now called Israel and Palestine, before the formation of the State of Israel, was the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea with its capital at Jerusalem (now referred to as

“East Jerusalem” also “the Old City”).

You can view the position of the Jewish Kingdom of Judea, here:

http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/kingdoms-of-judah-a...

You can read how the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea

re-gained its independence from the Greek Seleucid empire, by viewing the following two sources (for best viewing use the download option):

Extract from “Josephus - “Antiquities of the Jews”, Book 13, part of Paragraph 11 of Chapter 5, to end of Chapter 7.

(PDF file comprising introduction and then one paragraph to each page, total 16 pages):

https://www.mediafire.com/?kgex1rg9z4ha62f

Extract from “1 Maccabees”, Chapters 14 to 16 inclusive.

(PDF file comprising introduction and then 10 verses to each page, total 13 pages):

https://www.mediafire.com/?cbexfh6uewax5a9

You can view coins from the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea, here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean_coinage

This came to an end because of a Roman invasion and most, but not all, Jews were expelled to many places including Europe.

Apparently the Palestinians deal with this by denying that there ever was a Kingdom of Judea.

Referring to the Bible where the Bible talks about the Jewish People being given the land of Canaan, the Holy Quran says [Sura 5:21] "O my people, enter the holy land that GOD has decreed for you, and do not rebel, lest you become losers."

However, Islamic commentators seem not to recognise that this passage applies to the land of Canaan.

The Quran refers to the Jews of that Judean kingdom as “the People of the Book"; "Book" meaning the Bible.

The Holocaust speeded up the Return by the Jews to their homeland, which had already been underway before the second world war.

Today, the Arab peoples deal with this Return of the Jewish people, by apparently denying that the Jewish people are “the People of the Book" of the Quran. So while millions of Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish, the Palestinians allege that the Jewish people are not the Jewish people, and so claim that they are foreign invaders!

Consequently, the Jews are the only people in this world who are perversely accused of having "stolen" their own homeland, meaning Israel.

When the Jews restored their state as the "State of Israel" in 1948 (being a small area about the size that Wales is in the U.K.), this was authorised under the United Nations “Partition Plan” which separated the land between Jewish and Arab areas.

The surrounding Arab countries attacked the new Jewish state, but lost the war.

You can read about the United Nations Partition Plan, here:

http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/un-pa...

Arab people were living in Palestine when the Jewish state was restored as the State of Israel, and many Palestinians became war refugees (as did many Jews from Arab countries). These refugees had owned homes there, but home ownership is not proof of entitlement to the sovereignty of the land in which you live.

The Palestinians claim Israel expelled them. Not only is this untrue, but Palestinians live in Israel, and also Israel offers them citizenship. Most Palestinians refuse this citizenship because they believe Israel should not exist.

The Palestinians have expelled the Jewish people from all areas under Palestinian control.

Currently the Palestinians have two areas which they run themselves with their own military and police, but they do not yet have the full status of an independent sovereign state because Israel first wishes a peace treaty with them.

Consequently, Palestinians describe the Palestinian controlled areas as "occupied" by Israel. However, Palestinians do also describe the State of Israel itself as "occupied", as they claim it as Palestinian land. This is because they refuse the Jewish people the right to have their own homeland.

Although the Palestinians believe they have the right to a homeland, yet at the same time they also wish to deny that same right to the Jewish people.

Israel is accused of being in breach of United Nations resolutions. While there is just one Israel, there are many Muslim and Arab countries. So, with each member country having one vote you may not find it surprising that there have been many anti-Israel United Nations resolutions passed. The Palestinians are in breach of the United Nations resolution which set up Israel, since the Palestinians refuse Israel’s right to exist.

The two-state solution would in my personal view seem appropriate. Two peoples living as good neighbours, peacefully co-operating, giving and learning from each other; making certain the children of both peoples should never know the horror of conflict.

If you look back in history England and France used to be enemies at one time, and it went on for very many years, until at last they realised the stupidity of it, and no doubt of all those lost years when they missed out on being friends.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Robert.

Oddly enough, they don't want to be wiped out. Self-preservation is a fairly strong incentive. Imagine if your next-door neighbor publicly and recurrently expressed that he wanted to kill you and take over your house, and the police were on his side. That would probably leave you feeling a bit uneasy.

Well, understand this

Palestine doesn't want to exept us as a state, they don't want us to exist, so giving them what they want doesn't shut them up. That's why they need to be oppressed, to keep them in line.

to shut up their mouth !