[who_would_fardels_bear]

So according to #2 I’m supposed to stop using the word “East”?

[A Navy Vet]

You forgot Trans Jordan that included both Palestinians - Arabs and Jews, and then divided into 3 distinct regions/countries. Or maybe I missed it or don’t know what I’m talking about.

[SJackson]

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[Little Ray]

That is why I only believe in a 3 state solution - Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Israel keeps the Gaza Strip, West Bank (oops, Judea and Samaria), and Golan; the Arabs there go back their REAL respective countries.
Pity that their actual countries don’t want them (and neither does any other rationally governed nation).

[A Navy Vet]

My bottom line on this Israel vs Palestinian issue is:
Until Israel built a wall, the Palis would murder bomb weddings, cafes, marketplaces, buses, et al. Seemed there was new Intifada called yearly once Arafat was only offered some 95%? of his demands at the Camp David Accords.

Israel unilaterally gave the Palis their own state - it's called Gaza. Once given that, they immediately destroyed much of the Israeli built infra-structure just because they hate anything Jewish. Don't even get me started on the so-called Palistinian refugee camps. They're not camps as in tents, they are towns.

The Palis are a gutter culture and NO one wants them, well maybe ISIS would since Palis are as intolerant, blood-thristy, and treat women like property. Surprised Pali supported Hamas hasn't joined with ISIS. Or are they different Islam sects? Sorry, I'm losing track of which muslim wants to kill which muslim.

What diseased thinking occurs in a brain pan that just wants to rape, murder, maim, abuse children, destroy ancient historical artifacts for the sake of some unproven god? I've read parts of the Koran and the Hadiths. Both are just a contradictory mishmash of crap. How can so many be so void of individual purpose that they so easily fall for this inhumanity being their only mission for living? WTF?

Islam is a scourge on humanity by its so-called Holy books. It is incompatible with liberty. I wouldn't have a problem if they all disappeared yesterday, including the Trojan Horse moderates.

[driftless2]

It's for sure that if Arabs (Lebanese, Syrians, etal) were forcibly removed from their country like the Israelis were and then wanted to come back to their homeland, the whole world would be rejoicing and condemning anybody who tried to stop them. And whatever other ethnicity was living on the land at the time would be expected to cede or abdicate.

Yet when the Jews returned and established their homeland, they were condemned as usurpers and oppressors. The Israel they created thanks to Zionism changed a mostly barren desert wasteland into one of the world's few working democracies. Name a Muslim state that's accomplished as much in the last sixty-seventy years.

[epow]

Almost 4000 years ago God promised Abraham that his progeny would own and eventually occupy all the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers. He doesn't go back on His promises, therefore Israel owns all that land given to it by the One who created it, and in accord with God's timetable Israel will eventually occupy every last square foot of the land that God gave to Father Abraham. Nothing that the Arabs, Iran, or the UN can do will change or over ride God's unbreakable promise to Abraham, and Israel's enemies (including Obama) may as well get used to it.

Footnote: The book of the Apocalypse does say that Israel will be driven from it's land and into a place of security during last half of the dreadful 7 year Apocalypse that will come upon the entire earth before Jesus Christ returns to claim His throne in Jerusalem. Therefore the Israelis will be forced entirely out of their promised land for a short period of time, but they will still own it and will return to live there for 1000 years. Many, actually most, bible scholars have various different interpretations of the book of the Apocalypse, but I happen to believe the one I ineptly described is closest to the what the actual events of the future world will prove to be.