How can Israel deal with the palestinians?

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    the face wrote:
    You have spent your free time starting, not just contributing to, but starting no less than 18 anti israel threads. you have participated in even more. just search your own name and look at threads started. actions speak louder than words sleeper cell. as for your challenge to meet you in London, what are you proposing? Sounds like a threat. Whats the matter, did i touch a nerve? Im only here to share thoughts and ideas. That's the point of the board. But if you'd like to share a cup of tea, let me know what mosque you belong to and i'd enjoy a chat. By the way, have you actually been to the middle east? if so, where?

    :eek: risible
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    the face wrote:
    right back at ya Osama

    wow, putting me with Osama, that's quite the stretch there buddy. I'm nothing like Osama, you deteriorate the meaning of every term you use.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    I actually kind of want israel to grab more land...
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    lol im just kidding..

    But honestly how can israel deal with a group of people whose idea of a democracy is to shoot each other?

    How can Israel deal with a political party ( hamas) who does not even believe in the right of its existence?

    If Israel goes back to its pre-1967 borders will the palestinians stop blowing themselves up on the streets of tel-aviv. When it is pre-conditioned into the palestinians mind to hate israel from such a young age.

    Will the palestinians be willing to give up the dome of the rock? Because we all know what was there before it.
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  • the face
    the face Posts: 192
    miller8966 wrote:
    lol im just kidding..

    But honestly how can israel deal with a group of people whose idea of a democracy is to shoot each other?

    How can Israel deal with a political party ( hamas) who does not even believe in the right of its existence?

    If Israel goes back to its pre-1967 borders will the palestinians stop blowing themselves up on the streets of tel-aviv. When it is pre-conditioned into the palestinians mind to hate israel from such a young age.

    Will the palestinians be willing to give up the dome of the rock? Because we all know what was there before it.

    well thats not really just a palestinian issue. thats an issue for the whole arab world. the dome of the rock is in israeli hands and has not been desecrated but given the honor it deserves. one can only imagine the horror if the palestinians got their hands on the wailing wall. if the israelis were the animals youd like the world to think they were, they'd have blown the dome of the rock up years ago and built a new temple on the spot. when jersualem was in jordanian hands every temple in eastern jersualem was destroyed or desecrated. good point miller
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    miller8966 wrote:
    lol im just kidding..

    But honestly how can israel deal with a group of people whose idea of a democracy is to shoot each other?

    How can Israel deal with a political party ( hamas) who does not even believe in the right of its existence?

    If Israel goes back to its pre-1967 borders will the palestinians stop blowing themselves up on the streets of tel-aviv. When it is pre-conditioned into the palestinians mind to hate israel from such a young age.

    Will the palestinians be willing to give up the dome of the rock? Because we all know what was there before it.

    Well first most Palestinians are not shooting themselves in the streets. I'm not an expert on the history of the Palestinians or the politics, but from what I do know they have had pretty ineffective leadership in recent history. Wether it was the leadeships fault or because the Palestinians are made up of small factions, I don't know. I think, again this is solely opinion, what we have seen and are seeing is that the Palestinians where sick and tired of the PLO leadership and it's inability to get anything done. They sought an alternative but unfortunetly that alternative was Hamas. Now, I believe, the people are seeing that the hardline way of Hamas is not the way to go. So what you get is a minority that are diehard loyalist to their party, wether the PLO or Hamas, fighting it out to keep control while the moderate majority which just wants to live their lives in peace getting the shaft as usual.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    mammasan wrote:
    Well first most Palestinians are not shooting themselves in the streets. I'm not an expert on the history of the Palestinians or the politics, but from what I do know they have had pretty ineffective leadership in recent history. Wether it was the leadeships fault or because the Palestinians are made up of small factions, I don't know. I think, again this is solely opinion, what we have seen and are seeing is that the Palestinians where sick and tired of the PLO leadership and it's inability to get anything done. They sought an alternative but unfortunetly that alternative was Hamas. Now, I believe, the people are seeing that the hardline way of Hamas is not the way to go. So what you get is a minority that are diehard loyalist to their party, wether the PLO or Hamas, fighting it out to keep control while the moderate majority which just wants to live their lives in peace getting the shaft as usual.

    not a bad perspective right there.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    miller8966 wrote:
    I actually kind of want israel to grab more land...

    What's in it for you, fella? :p
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    miller8966 wrote:
    not a bad perspective right there.

    I try. The way I see it Hamas only really cares about their agenda which is obviously anti-Israel. The PLO is a bit more concerned with the well being of the majority of Palestinians but lacks the testicular fortitude to reign in the extremist. This makes both parties useless because Hamashas no real desire for peace and the PLO can't control the extremeist long enough to establish peace. Once again in the end it's the average Palestinians who just want to live their life without bloodshed who suffers. Also the Israelis suffer because I'm damn sure no one deserves to be blown to shit while their going about their daily lives.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    the face wrote:
    well thats not really just a palestinian issue. thats an issue for the whole arab world. the dome of the rock is in israeli hands and has not been desecrated but given the honor it deserves. one can only imagine the horror if the palestinians got their hands on the wailing wall. if the israelis were the animals youd like the world to think they were, they'd have blown the dome of the rock up years ago and built a new temple on the spot. when jersualem was in jordanian hands every temple in eastern jersualem was destroyed or desecrated. good point miller

    Is this one of your enlightened answers.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    the face wrote:
    if the israelis were the animals youd like the world to think they were, they'd have blown the dome of the rock up years ago and built a new temple on the spot.

    I can't think of a time when miller ever tried to paint Israelis as being animals.

    Maybe I'm wrong though, miller you anti-semite!
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I think a lot of it has to do with both sides. It's not just palestinians and it's not just Israelis.

    Remember the 2nd Intifida started when Arial Sharon visited the Al-Askari mosque or whatever. Remember the extremist Israelis planning to blow up a plaestinian school. It's back and forth stuff and both sides need to admit they are wrong, kiss and make-up. :p
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I can't think of a time when miller ever tried to paint Israelis as being animals.

    Maybe I'm wrong though, miller you anti-semite!

    lol yea i dont think ive ever done that.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    A step I believe Israel should take is to pay the Palestinians the taxes they are due and restart any aid they where providing prior to Hamas' win. I understand their concern that Hamas is a terrorist organization but by withholding those funds they are not hurting Hamas they are hurting the Palestinian people. They need to fully back the PLO because at this point that is the best party that offers any hope of reaching peace. Finally, and I know I'm going to catch some slack for this, stop with the military incursions. I fully support israel's right to defend itself but they are only hurting themselves in the long run. Everytime the Israelies roll tanks into a town Hamas will use that to their benefit. They have to pull the rug from under Hamas' feet. Weaken Hamas by not giving them any ammunition to fuel their propaganda. This will hopefully strengthen the PLO and show the average Palestinian that Israel is doing everything it can to come to a peacefull resolution.
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  • dayan
    dayan Posts: 475
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Do you realise Dayan, that every Palestinian and Every jew who is killed as a result of this ongoing occupation and continuing land grab, is killed as a result of people like you and your bigotry?

    My bigotry? what exactly does my bigotry consist of? I've never said I hate arabs. I don't blame this entire conflict on the arabs. So I'm a bigot because I don't agree with you that Israel is the spawn of the devil and the cause of all the world's problems? I mean come on. this is the pot calling the kettle black here.
  • dayan
    dayan Posts: 475
    Hasn't this thread gotten so much more calm and peaceful and rational the last few posts while the "Israel is always wrong" crowd have taken a breather. I just wanted to point that out. I agree with you mammasan. In the long run alot of what Israel is doing now might end up being counterproductive, but you know the saying that all politics are local, and it would be very difficult for an Israeli leader right now to cease all military operations so long as there are still rockets being fired out of gaza and the kidnapped soldier is still in captivity. The Israeli populace will not take kindly to a leader they percieve not to be defending them in the short run.
  • dayan
    dayan Posts: 475
    oh, and in all seriousness, there are those on the train who believe that Israel is religiously motivated to conquer land, and in light of that the point made about Israel's exemplary stewardship of the dome of the rock deserves to be highlighted. Israel has shown tremendous respect to all religious sites under its control, which speaks to the fact that it is not the fanatic religious hate mongering state that some would make it out to be.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    dayan wrote:
    oh, and in all seriousness, there are those on the train who believe that Israel is religiously motivated to conquer land, and in light of that the point made about Israel's exemplary stewardship of the dome of the rock deserves to be highlighted. Israel has shown tremendous respect to all religious sites under its control, which speaks to the fact that it is not the fanatic religious hate mongering state that some would make it out to be.

    Heh, neither is Iran or any of the other states that are made out that way.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    dayan wrote:
    Hasn't this thread gotten so much more calm and peaceful and rational the last few posts while the "Israel is always wrong" crowd have taken a breather. I just wanted to point that out. I agree with you mammasan. In the long run alot of what Israel is doing now might end up being counterproductive, but you know the saying that all politics are local, and it would be very difficult for an Israeli leader right now to cease all military operations so long as there are still rockets being fired out of gaza and the kidnapped soldier is still in captivity. The Israeli populace will not take kindly to a leader they percieve not to be defending them in the short run.

    Constant negativity is not productive. I understand that any Israeli leader who departs from military tactics will look weak to the people and in short be committing career suicide, but someone has to step up to the plate. Someone has to but the long term goals of Israel before his/her career. Same goes for the palestinian leadership. The PLO never tried to reign in the fanatics for fear of loosing power. Well guess what they lost it anyway. What is need is two leaders who will put their people befor etheir careers which unfortunetly is hard to find in this day and age.
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  • the face
    the face Posts: 192
    dayan wrote:
    Hasn't this thread gotten so much more calm and peaceful and rational the last few posts while the "Israel is always wrong" crowd have taken a breather. I just wanted to point that out. I agree with you mammasan. In the long run alot of what Israel is doing now might end up being counterproductive, but you know the saying that all politics are local, and it would be very difficult for an Israeli leader right now to cease all military operations so long as there are still rockets being fired out of gaza and the kidnapped soldier is still in captivity. The Israeli populace will not take kindly to a leader they percieve not to be defending them in the short run.
    It's only quiet because the haters on this thread appear to all be in Europe...which means they are sleeping. They'll be back.

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