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Just as a clarification, please show a map of Israel before the 1967 hostilities and another showing territory occupied by Israel as a result of those hostilities.

Israel won that war fair and square. The land is theirs! The arabs shouldn't have started it in the first place.

I saw on TV where several Arab nations attacked Israel in 1967. Israel won that war. They conquered and aquired the properties that make up present day Israel. The Arabs lost. Bad gamble on their part. But That's the way it is. Now 30+ years later it is still part of Israel. It's like a chunk of the SW USA. We won that land from Texas to California in war. It's been part of America for decades. That's the way things work. Now if the Arabs want those chunks of real estate back...then they will have to fight for them. But I would put my money on Israel. And chances are, the arabs would lose even more land. So the best bet would be for the rest of the Arab world to provide a place the Palastinains to call home....and let Israel be. Doesn't this make more sense than what's coming?

Are you talking about he land that the Arab nations told the Arab-Israelis to leave so they could come in and kill the Jews without having to worry about Killing any Arabs? That land?

Or are you talking about the land that the Jordanians refused to provide fresh water for nor food for that the displaced Arab-Isrtaelis were forced to live on because they tried to allow the surrounding Arab nations to come and kill Jews for? Is it that land you mean?

Or are you talking about the land that Egypt refused to provide food for nor fresh water for so that they could come and kill Jews for, after murdering the Arab Mayor who thought he could live in peace with the Jews? Is it that land you mean??

Click on the link at the bottom to see the history of Israel in maps.

On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.(1) The Jews were to be granted what appears on the map in blue. Over 75% of the land allocated to the Jews was desert. Desperate to find a haven for the remnants of European Jewry after the Holocaust, the Jewish population accepted the plan which accorded them a diminished state. The Arabs, intent on preventing any Jewish entity in Palestine, rejected it.(2)

1. For the full text of the UN Partition resolution, see walter Laquere (ed.), The Arab-Israeli Reader; A Documentary History of the Middle east Conflict (New York: Bantam Books, 1969), pp.113-122

2. While the Jewish leadership and population in Palestine accepted partition, all of the Arab members states of the UN - Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen- voted against it. Upon the resolution's adoption, the Arab delegates declared partition invalid: The New York Times, Nov. 30, 1947. Within two days, the Arab governments declared their oposition to partition: The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2, 1947.

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"Just as a clarification, please show a map of Israel before the 1967 hostilities and another showing territory occupied by Israel as result of those hostilities."

Just as a Clarification, let me show you the map of the State of Palestine before the 1967 hostilities:

----Pretty small, huh?

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