itiq wrote:Tha "Israeli" ball started rolling after the Balfour Declaration, the holocaust may have been the catalyst but prior to it there was the pogroms in Russia and what seemed a general dislike for jews in many parts of the world before WWII even before christ. My understanding on this topic is limited, it intrigues me though, I do think the creation of the state of Israel to be somewhat fair, every culture has its doubters and dislikers, jews and muslims are no different. I also think Israel's surrounding arch-neighbors have somewhat fair reason to be as they are towards Israel, less the bombings and rocket attacks. The negotiating process for the creation of the Israeli state may have been biased, given the era of the day. I don't know what more to say, let em battle it out in a game of soccer, hockey and all the olymipic sports Jew v Muslim/Palestinian of the world and may the winner have glory!
This is a good post.
I have fairly strong feelings on the matter, and I'm still not sure I contend Israel's right to exist. That isn't to say that Israel has not perpetrated some nasty bits of foreign policy in the past. I think what some people in this thread seem to be misunderstanding is that the Muslims don't wish the end of Israel because of some long-seated anti-semitic tenancy (indeed, we in the Christian West arguably have a more prevelant and worse history regarding the Jews). Israel was literally created right in the middle of land that had been in Muslim hands for six or seven hundred years. Furthermore, there has always been such a mix of people in the area. The Muslim population of Palestine was not some migratory Muslim horde who racked up when Muhammad told them to, or under Ottoman rule or whatever. They have always been there, always resided in that area, and chose Islam as their religion, just as others have historically been Jewish or Syrian Christian or any number of other religions in the area. Pretty much every single person who lives there has a right to be there, so we dofn't need ridiculous comments like 'it's Jewrusalem' (although that did seem sarcastic in nature).
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