Leadified said:
The last time the Arabs controlled Palestine was during the Crusades, ever since it has switched hands from Turkish states to European powers. The states of Israel and Palestine have only existed since 1948 when the partition plan was to create two separate Jewish and Arab states. Jews, Muslims and Christains have lived together in the region for 1500 years, it's not so simple to determine who is right and who is wrong. Personally I don't think its fair to pick one side when both Arabs and Israelis are responsible for creating this mess. |
There were no Arabs or Israelis, it used to be just Palestinians until the west split Palestine.
Prior to that, this particular piece of land has been ruled by the kurds (Sallauddin Ayubi was a Kurd), Romans, the British, Macedonians and the list goes on.
Looking at it historically there is no one particular owner as this piece of land has always been fought over, even when ruled by the Jewish, as other Jewish tribes fought over it for hundreds of years.
The biggest problem is where people complicate the issue by saying Arabs and Israelites, Jews and Muslims. Palestine is the actual country, Israel was a place within Palestine. All the folk who were born there are essentially Arab, whether they are Jewish, Muslim or Christian similar to how everyone born in Britain is British although they may be Scottish. Israel as a state has only been in existence for the last 60 of years.
This piece of land has seen so much violence and death, it will make GoT look like a Disney film. In fact, after having read Jerusalem the Biography, you realise this is actually is no man's land.
The second issue is people not knowing the difference between anti semitism and anti Judaism. One is racism as you are opposing a group of people for their religion e.g. Hitler was anti Jewish. The other is being opposed to the idea of an Apartheid in Palestine e.g. the situation in south Africa with Nelson Mandela.
However, Zionists often play the Anti semitic card as if it were the anti Judaism card when lobbying.
This land won't see peace anytime soon. The west needs Israel as they have given Israel immunity. It is the only place in the entire world that can create as much of a nuclear arsenal as they want. Essentially the entirety of Israel has been created as a giant weapons bunker in the middle east in case the west needs to go to war in the east.
