Israel vs. Hezb'Allah

[Dare2Dream]

Dennis Miller recently said the following about the Middle East situation:

"The Palestinians want their own country.
There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians.
It's a made up word.
Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years.
Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient
but is really a modern invention....

This is such a load of lies, perhaps he has never met a Palestinian to ask him about their families being forced out of their homes during the Naqba (1948). These people were forced out of their own homes, their own land, by force and violence. There are 5 million Palestinian refugees today scattered all around the world. Many of them live in some of the most squalid conditions, in crowded refugee camps, with no means to better their lives, no decent education for their kids, no jobs, not even the freedom to move about.

The Palestinians are living in the largest prisons on earth, occupied by Israel, they have no right to control their destiny. Their land which is their only means of earning a living is continually seized by the government to build settlements. The Palestinians cannot even travel from one city to another. The highways in gaza and west bank are only for the settlers to use. The Palestinians are enduring collective punishment and are being blugeoned into submission.

But they refuse to give up their dream for freedom. They are the Indians who refuse to live on reservations, the blacks who refuse to sit in the back of the bus.

In 1982, Israel occupied Lebanon for 18 years to dislodge PLO and in the procees killed thousands of innocents. Out of that occupation came Hizbullah and unfortunately, again, we are seeing history repeat itself.

The only solution is to address the root causes of the violence. Attacking and killing is not the solution and I hope Israel realizes that some day. The only solution is for Israel to start treating the Palestinians as human being, give them their rights, their freedom and free will to control their destiny. If Israel does not want to give them freedom, then they should be accepted as human being, as equal citizens of the country. Israel cannot hope that they will vanish one day.

Justice is the only way to peace. Too many innocent people have been killed on both sides.

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The only solution is for Israel to start treating the Palestinians as human being, give them their rights, their freedom and free will to control their destiny.

Not just Israel - the whole world. Even the Arab nations around Israel, who claim to sympathize with the Palestinians, treat them like sub-human beings. It's very sad.

[WyrreJ]

The only solution is for Israel to start treating the Palestinians as human being, give them their rights, their freedom and free will to control their destiny. If Israel does not want to give them freedom, then they should be accepted as human being, as equal citizens of the country. Israel cannot hope that they will vanish one day.

Lol! At least you picked the right handle to go with your opinions. Israel will never accept palestinians as citizens of Israel. If they did, the jews would quickly become a minority. At which point they would either have to give up on democracy or give up on zionism. Since the whole point of the country is based on religious fruitcakism, you know democracy would be shown the door right quick which would be just about impossible to spin enough to keep the billions of American dollars flowing. Kinda ironic how the ideal of democracy is one of the reasons the palestinians are locked out of "the only true and longstanding democracy in the middle east."

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Israel will never accept palestinians as citizens of Israel. If they did, the jews would quickly become a minority.

Interestingly, the population of Muslims in Israel is growing rapidly. Many Jewish Israelis express fear that they may be ousted from Israel by love (sex) rather than hate (war).