Reply #24: in essence, i believe they are building for the palestinians... [View All]

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because they WILL eventually have to return to the 1948 (or whenever it was approved) boundaries set up by the UN. what they will do, however, is destroy everything they have built, rather than allow the palestinians to benefit from it.

over the years i have done a 180 on the middle east situation. i had nothing but respect for the jewish people, who have suffered tremendously, yet still managed to accomplish so much.

but watching them since the 1967 war, i have lost that respect.

look at it like this... (obviously simplified, but ...)

who was kicked off the land so that there could be a state of israel? the palestinians.

why do the israelis have the right to the land? because, according to THEIR god, the land was their's, the chosen people descended from isaac, the father of the nation of israel. it did not belong to the palestinians, who are the "bastard offspring" of isaac. (god fucked up big time on that little arrangement. too bad he didn't have a crystal ball...)

so the palestinians, in their anger, screamed about destroying the state of israel. understandable reaction, given the circumstances.

the palestinians who are watching this, fight back, trying to regain what they feel is rightfully theirs, with any method available, causing many israeli deaths.

meanwhile, israel invades and occupies palestinian land, for "security" purposes. the palestinians, and their militias eventually agree to drop the "plank" about destroying israel from their charter. even while that is happening, israel, especially under sharon, thinks it can build settlements anywhere it damn well pleases, and the land is theirs. (is not one of their precious commandments "thou shalt not steal"?)

israel continues to take the hard line, afterall that is why sharon is in power. he knew what he was doing when he took armed israeli soldiers onto a sacred muslim site, and he got the response he wanted.

the palestinians respond.

then israel starts bombing and destroying palestinian homes, to teach the palestinians a lesson. suicide attacks on israel increase.

so...

israel has invaded the palestinian homeland, under the guise of security, when they are obviously the second most powerful military force on the planet, and they refuse to give up what they have stolen.

if israel agreed to return to the original boundaries, they would see a remarkable change in the palestinian response. the palestinians know they will never be able to destroy israel, but now they are fighting for what israel has taken from them, beyond the UN agreed boundaries. who of us, would not do the same, if our homes were taken, and/or destroyed?

eventually we will have an american president that insists that a peace in the middle east (at least between the israelis and palestinians) must occur, and apply the pressure for it to really happen.

just you wait. they WILL return to the 1948 boundaries.

until they get off the palestinian's land, they can just get used to be "suicided".

so sad that the chosen people's god could not see the death and destruction he was setting into play.

but then again, almost all the death and destruction now in play, and throughout history, has been at the foot of the force of some religion.

now, please, in all your rightous indignation, you may proceed to rip me to shreds......