Your asking a very complex question, much of which I've forgotten. In a humanistic world view, the land belongs to the Palestinians, those people took it years ago. The fact is that the Palestinians are immigrants of surrounded nations.During the British Mandate, even well into the 1940s, Arabs were allowed into "Palestine" in huge numbers without visa or passport, especially from the Hauran District of Syria, while the British continued to do everything possible to prevent Jews from entering, even down to the last minute when all attempts were made to deny entry to thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Only in 1948 were Jewish refugees allowed free entry to their homeland, and that was because Israel had, once again, become an independent nation. The Romans had changed the name of the Land of Israel to "Palestine." But from A.D. 640 until the 1960s, Arabs referred to this same Land as "Southern Syria." Arabs only started calling the Land "Palestine" in the 1960s. Until about the eighteenth century, the Christian world called this same Land, "The Holy Land." Thereafter, they used two names: "The Holy Land" and "Palestine." When the League of Nations in 1922 gave Great Britain the mandate to prepare Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people, the official name of the Land became "Palestine" and remained so until the rebirth of the Israeli State in 1948. During this very period, the leaders of the Arabs in the Land, however, called themselves Southern Syrians and clamored that the Land become a part of a "Greater Syria." This "Arab Nation" would include Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan as well as Palestine. Another fact is that no other surrounding country will allow the Palestinians to enter their country...legally... Why? They don't want them, those lovable Arab brothers are using them as a buffer between them and Israel. They know ... Arabs...if we ...United States...would tell Israel to go do what is needed and we will back you. Israel would whip their butts,they are a tough people. Israel will probably jump on Iran with our blessings, jump on, I mean take out their nuke plant, just like they did Iraq. One day someone is going to back that little country in a corner, Israel will have no choice but to nuke them.

Sharon gave them the land for hopes of peace. I think back in 1993 there was some kind of agreement to back out of the Gaza, I forget.

Now lets get down to the nut cutting so to speak. Arabs own 99.9% of all the land in the Middle East. Israel owns one tenth of one %. Arabs want it all. Their goal is to annilate Jews. And other countries as well want to kill Jews. Remember Hitler. Actually the only reason the Jews got there was because the United States would not take them. I don't know why the world hates the Jews, I believe it is because the savior of the world descended from them. Another fact, there will never be peace in the Middle East. Now, there will be a period of peace for 3.5 years and then 3.5 years of hell on earth, literally. That will be when the anti-christ desecrates the Temple and declares himself to be God. I hope for the rapture before all this happens :D
The world as a whole hates Jews. I'm on Gods side, they are his chosen.



You ask more than I can explain. However, you are right, if someone comes in my yard to do me harm, if possible, I'll defend it to the death.









Quote Originally Posted by crappieseeker
I think it's a sad situation for those people to be forcefully moved from the only place they have called home. I have always been under the assumption that Gaza was always a part of Israel. They have occupied it militarily for the last 38 years, but even before then Israelis settled in that land. Palestinians want their own state and have claimed this land to be theirs. Does anyone know or can help me to understand who this land truely belongs to. All these other countries condemn Israel for retaliating against the palestinians for these suicide attacks. I would retaliate too if someone bombed a cafe or something in my country and killed people. They seem to think that by giving this land to the palestinians that it will help protect the Israeli border better. I think it will be even worse, because they will be closer and have the freedom to do whatever they want and the hatred between those people will never cease. I am also torn over the China Taiwan conflict. I think Taiwan should be able to have their own territory even though it was originally part of China because they are doing it peacefully, but is this right? Probably not. I know that with our military being stretched thin, it's just a matter of time before China will invade Taiwan and there wont be anything we can do to stop it. Someone please help me understand some of this.