Cerebralbore101 said: There's a lot of misconceptions about the whole Israel/Palestine issue. Let's get started... 1. Palestine was never a country of it's own, just a region, that has been passed between different countries for over 2000 years. The word Palestinian doesn't refer to a nationality, anymore than Appalachian, or Floridian refers to a nationality. 2. Israel and Judah were both destroyed by 586 B.C. So the Jewish people have been without a homeland for 2,500 years. (IMO they had no right to claim the area as their own, since there should be a statute of limitations on a people claiming land as their own, because they used to live there.) 3. The Gaza strip is a little strip of land next to Egypt This area of land was controlled by Egypt prior to the Six Day War. 4. The west bank is a batch of land on the eastern side of Israel. Prior to the Six Day War it was controlled by Jordan. 5. The Six Day War was caused by Egypt trying to blockade Israel's sea trade routes. Israel then responded by attacking Egypt, and it's allies. Israel easily won this war in a period of six days, taking the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and the West Bank from Jordan. 6. The U.N. outlawed taking and occupying the land of another nation after WWII. Israel used the Six Day War to take land from Egypt/Jordan. Therefore their occupation of these areas is technically illegal. (Note: I support their taking of these areas. They won the war, and they were provoked into defending themselves.) 7. The British Empire told the Jewish people that they could not move to the Palestine area (this was when the British owned the area as a colony). After WWII they did it anyway, making many Jewish people illegal immigrants. 8. The Palestinians have used terrorism, and revolt in order to try to form their own nation, as well as destroy Israel. 9. The Israelites have been actively trying to displace, marginalize, and replace the Palestinian minority for over 40 years. Their goal is to make Gaza, and the West bank into areas where only Jewish people live. TL/DR: Nobody has a legitimate claim to this land, and both sides are extremists. |
You nailed it.