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Posted By expursuit 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsWhen Israeli-Palestinian permanent status negotiations resume, a key stumbling block is likely to be the Palestinian refugee question. The plight of the refugees and the demand that their right of return be recognised has been central to the Palestinian struggle since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Palestinians warn that a dissatisfied, angry refugee c
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Daylight1 year, 8 months ago
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I wonder, Israel is only one percent of one-sixth of the land in the Middle East. If the Arabs are so bent upon giving land to the refuges, why doesn't Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon step in.
After all America is the country that is behind Israel's strength, so they can give part of America or ask the German to give them part of Germany. This problem cannot be solved because the European Zionists were brought into the Arab land with the intention of controlling the region and to keep the middle East in tension all the time, that will help the armament industries and the corrupted American oil companies. Whether anyone want to wiping off Israel or not the Israel will be wiped off through the passage of time. People who talk about the Israel's right to live also should realize that the millions of Palestinians who have been made refugees, have the bigger right to return to wherever they lived. continues
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Daylight1 year, 8 months ago
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At the same time those who came from America, Europe and other part of the world should return to the countries where they came from, will automatically solve the problem. This is the country built on millions of people's home, as such they should hand over the land back to them and respectfully leave. No body in the region wants the Zionists in their territory. Since the Arab leaders are puppet they won't openly promote this idea but they will never accept Israel as a legitimate country in the region. America is responsible in all the violence in the region as such they should come forward to dismantle Israel. They can do that in many ways, one way is to pressure Israel to leave or they can force them out or even they can stop supporting the Zionist entity. This is not a war between Islam Judaism.
American help to maintain Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzUtD0mnsak
This is the opinion of the middle East:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WK3HbXwN0k
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Mutainia1 year, 8 months ago
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One way to NOT solve it is by having Palestinian Muslim youth brain-washed with evil, hate-filled crap like THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2J3my3pOIc
Another, is by taking out Quran 9:1-5 and 9:29 for starters.
Oh, by the way, IF you see the video I posted, you'll notice that the evil Israeli agent is a BLACK man! How will young Palestinians view our next President?
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Spadecaller1 year, 8 months ago
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There's enough blame to go around for all the governments involved. Palestinians need to recognize Israel's right to exist just as much as the militant Israeli faction needs to accept the Palestinian's rights, as well. As long as the Palestinians choose to have a terrorist organization, Hamas, who is dedicated to destroying Israel, there will be no peace.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> ...the militant Israeli faction needs to accept the Palestinian's rights, as well.
Can you elaborate on this please? Which "militant Israeli faction" needs to "accept the Palestinian's rights" and why? Further, which "Palestinian's rights" needs this "militant Israeli faction" to accept?
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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As long as the isrealis choose to have a racist, ethnic cleansing, terrorist organization and to demand that the world "recognize" a "zionist-racist" state there will be no peace. The world has outgrown ugly racism of the zionist type.
The Trap of Recognizing Israel
.. In demanding recognition of its right to exist, Israel is ensuring that the Palestinians agree to Israel's character being set in stone as an exclusivist Jewish state, one that privileges the rights of Jews over all other ethnic, religious and national groups inside the same territory. ... No solution is possible as long as Israel insists on privileging citizenship for Jews above other groups, and on distorting the region's territorial and demographic realities to ensure that the numbers continue to weigh in the Jews' favor.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> Palestinian polls consistently show that Palestinians want peace for their people and that they are willing to coexist with Israelis.
In this case, Palestinians should elect leadership reflecting their wills, namely a leadership that will stop attacks against Israel and Israelis and will ask for peace negotiations.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> Palestinian polls consistently show that Palestinians want peace for their people and that they are willing to coexist with Israelis.
In this case, Palestinians should elect leadership reflecting their wills, namely, a leadership that will stop attacks against Israel and Israelis and will ask for peace negotiations.
When facts contradict your statements it's not the facts that should be corrected.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> When Israeli-Palestinian permanent status negotiations resume, a key stumbling block is likely to be the Palestinian refugee question. The plight of the refugees and the demand that their right of return...
During and after WWII Millions of refugees came to the US, Canada, Australia and other countries from the destroyed Europe. If someone said today that all these people as well as their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Germany, Poland or Hungary such a person would be considered an insane racist mad Nazi. The very same behavior and arguments, however, are considered normal and expected regarding Arab states and Arab people.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Well perhaps the israelis should follow the German example. The land and property seized by the communists in East Germany in 1949 has now been returned to its original owners by German courts over the past 10 plus years.
The zionists should do the same. After all, israelis are at least as moral as germans aren't they?
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> The land and property seized by the communists in East Germany in 1949 has now been returned to its original owners by German courts over the past 10 plus years.
> The zionists should do the same. After all, israelis are at least as moral as germans aren't they?
Of course. This is the reason I've (repeatedly) said that each and every person (Palestinian or otherwise) who lost his/her property to Israel had the right and is encouraged to bring his/her case to the Israeli Court and demand compensation. Some people did just that.
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KYRed1 year, 8 months ago
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Those evil racist Jews don't make up the entirity of the population of Israel. They do not exterminate Arabs living there and those Arabs living there have one vote, one person, just as the Jews enjoy. The Palestinians need to for once get on with their lives, face the facts and work to make their lands better places to live. They would have had more lands to call their own had their beloved Arafat had enough sense to recognize a good deal when he had one. Unfortunately he didn't see what a good deal it was until it was too late. As for other Arab nations, they could help out their Palestinian brothers and sisters. They have plenty of land and resources. They could help them reclaim desert lands, just as the Israelis have done, and make them productive farms and ranches.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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> ...had their beloved Arafat had enough sense to recognize a good deal when he had one. Unfortunately he didn't see what a good deal it was until it was too late.
This is not exactly the case. You see, Arafat COULD NOT accept any deal with Israel no matter how good. According to the Palestinian Charter (Constitution) ANY peace agreement with Israel on ANY conditions is unacceptable. This means that for Arafat (or Abbas, for this matter) accepting ANYTHING except elimination of Israel is unconstitutional and illegal.
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Thinker221 year, 8 months ago
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The answer to the question at the top of this page (How to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?) is pretty simple:
The only reason there is no peace yet is the refusal of the Palestinian Arabs to negotiate peace. This means that the only way to resolve the conflict is to MAKE THEM BEG FOR PEACE.
Only when the Palestinians will genuinely be willing to achieve peace will peace become possible. It's that simple.
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markmawn21 year, 8 months ago
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A one sided approach never works, unless you mean absolute overwhelming force results in absolute surrender. Extermination would be the next step.
Sorry, not buying it's all the Arabs' fault. Many Palestinians did not agree with Arafat and knew he would be bad, as he was more profiteering from the conflict. However, people needed to eat and have some normalcy, so they settled. Short of an new Ghandi, I cannot see peace anytime soon.
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rumple4skin1 year, 8 months ago
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Here is a very recent example of the insanity represented by Israel.
Ramallah, 28/02/2008. An Israeli airstrike aimed at the ministry of interior building in Gaza City also destroyed the nearby Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) head office in Gaza and killed a 5-month-old baby in a residential building in the same area.
Collateral damage? Here, friend. Read the full story. http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?a...
This tit-for-tat response from Israel typifies the child-like nature of the government there. It has nothing to do with trying to secure a peace but rather to continue demonstrating its military dominance in the situation. There lies a complete inability to really put a concrete plan for ending this petulent behaviour. BTW - You really must try to visit news sites that explain the 'other side of the story'. One-sided biased reporting is the bane of truth.
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rumple4skin1 year, 8 months ago
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This is an example or the inability of Israelli leaders inability to think clearly.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m41554&hd=&size=1&l=e - 'Olmert threatens to assassinate Hamas political leaders'
Olmert, who is currently visiting Japan, described the situation in the south of occupied Palestine as a real war because of the Palestinian resistance's missiles fired at Israeli targets adjacent to the Gaza Strip in response to Israeli atrocities.
Perhaps we the people should give the go-ahead for Israel to nuke the Palestinian nation as a final solution?
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