@Yanny:
Wow, my family was in Canada 80 years ago. You don’t see me heading to Montreal and demanding land.
Big friggin deal, some people thousands of years ago lived there. I don’t care about your culture, its not special. There are hundreds of cultures that lay claim to land from the past, they don’t get it. The Germans used the same excuse to take over Austria before WWII.
Look, the Jews aren’t different from any other culture. Don’t think your special. People are going to keep dieing from this stupid sense of pride Israel has. Just pull back! Its not that hard, the idiots who took up residence in the settlements would of left now if they had a brain.
Israel is causing the United States a lol of trouble. The problems are escalating at such a rate where millions could die, in the near future. If Israel would just end the occupation, the problem would be solved. This action would cause the moderate Arabs to have a voice again.
The problem with the Occupation is twofold. It gives the Extreme Arab leaders a cause, and support of the people. It also gives Extreme Israelis a cause, and support of the people, because of the actions of Extreme Arabs.
The real huge problem with this is its a cycle. An Extreme Arab action will be met with a more extreme Israeli action, which will be met with an even more extreme Arab action… and so on. If Israel really is a civilized state, it will notice this and stop it. Stop the useless retaliation, and end the occupation.
Besides the Chinese land claim to Siberia and the Native Peoples’ claims of land in the Americas, I know of NO OTHER culture that has ties to a place. It’s easy for you to say as an Anti-Semite. You’re telling the Jews to assimilate and to lose our culture, but we refuse to do so and that’s why you and the other anti-semites hate us. Becuase we won’t leave our traditions. No other nation has a historical place as part of its culture, those who did have given it up such as the Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
There is nothing that can be done about the cycle. Israel has no choice but to retaliate because if she does not, the terrorists will grow more confident and conduct more attacks believing that they cannot and will not be stopped. You cannot unilaterally withdraw from a place crawling with terrorists. Israel tried that when it pulled out of Lebanon and now the entire south of Lebanon is occupied by Hizballah. By unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other terrorist groups will take over those areas.
I believe that the Palestinians should be given their own state, just to show the truth of how that is not their main goal and how they truly want eveyrthing. Even if Israel leaves, the attacks will not stop. I dont know what the solution is to end the violence, but I am not sure giving them a state will work.
As for your Canada analogy, you have hit the mark on the Palestinian claims to the land. They left by choice and now want to come back as though they never left. But they are trying to change history as well to suit their story.
