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here is where i stand and please dont make more comments about my sentence structure.
I was born in Israel , my forefathers came to Israel before it was a state
and what i know is that Israel has been the historical homeland of the jewish people since centuries, this is well documented in archeological findings,
Jerusalem was build by a Jewish king, David, and the temple too, which is now the famous mosque, the dome of the rock.
The fact is that when Israel, then palestine was occupied by the Turkish empire Jews could not pray at the wailing wall, which is the last remaining wall of the temple.
Only when the Jews took over could ALL religions could practice their faith.
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The fact is that i was raised in the education system never ever learning anything but how much we want peace
I never heard anything racist about Arabs in school
the Israeli poets i studied, as Yehoda Amichai, seek peace and mourn war and its victims
On the other hand the Palestinians voted into office extreme terrorists
AND teach their kids to hate jews.
Te reality is that the jews had been kicked out of their homeland thousands of years ago and had no where else to go so they went HOMe-
Nazi Germany wanted the Jews to go to Palestine , they declared , but on the other hand cooperated with the Arabs who wanted to murder the Jews there-
Zionism is not terror it is simply the wish of the Jews to go back to their homeland.
How many of you know of the millions of Jews kicked out of Arab lands ?
or forced to become moslems ?
I think antisemitism is so deep that people are blind to what is going on in the middle east
The jews have no place to go and this is their historical home.
If you are religious, the bible is full of quotes about the connection to the land
if you are not religious, archeology takes care of the evidence;
there is a long history between the Jews and the land.
Palestinians are not different than any other Arab nation living there
however
they should have every right to live peacefully side by side with Israel but they continue to reject compromises or peaceful solutions.
I know this for a fact that most Israelis are not extremists and just want to live in peace in their land .
In any case the Arabs will have you believe that Jews are settlers that are foreign to the area, that is far from the truth.
As for jews being terrorists in the 40s before Israel was established you should know there were different groups resisting the British varying politically however contrary to the moslem world the moderate socialist stream won over , there was a strong resistance to violence.
Therefore there are no extremists ruling Israel, and if there are some politicans who are not as tolerant the mainstream in Israel ,here is a large OPEN debate.
The Majority support a peaceful solution to this problem
but lets get the history clear
archeological findings and fair and square purchases of land validate the jews right to live in Israel.
The Moslem world has many lands and several holy cities , mecca and medina etc
the Jews have only ONE , jerusalem.
i dont know any israeli that would not be willing to compromise had there been a chance for peace-
At the moment despite jimmy carter and his distortion
there is no one to talk to because the palestinians insist on voting for a very extreme racist group, the Hamas,with strong ties to Iran.
Israel did not invent the ties to Iran
Israel has open press and if you go online and read
www.haaretz.com
you will witness open discussion that is absent in the Moslem world.
The moslem world used to be the most advanced at the time when europe was in the dark middle ages but nowadays it has been hijacked by extremists who abuse women or anyone who dares to speak out.
I am very proud that we have open communication and discussion and a very wide spectrum of opinions.
Had the palestinains put down their weapons they could have had peace but they insisted on smuggling weapon and using violence
and educating their kids to hate and kill
you can see this documented, it is not a myth ;
small children marching as soldiers told to murder iis nothing strange to this world.
At the same time the Israelis have not a lot of choice when missiles are sent to our territory and there is no sign of peace.
We are not an empire, nor the USA or anything close to that size
but a tiny strip of land amongst a huge sea of angry Moslems.
Israel has overcome against the odds countless attempts to be destroyed
but the worst war for me is reading all those lies and hate against Israel.
What would happen if the Arabs succeeded and Israel would be destroyed?
Palestine would be just another branch of Iran or extremists.
But somehow Israel survives and continues to share technology, computer knowledge , medical knowledge , culture, etc . with the world
IT is a fact that Israeli arabs have the hightest literacy rate
and best health system .
If someone was sending missiles to you , what would you do ?
May i remind you all that even though the Nazis and their european allies had murdered six million jews not too long ago no jew turned to violence against the Germans, they went to Palestine because there was no where else to go and they did not want another war but were forced
to fight to survive.
Our entire culture is based on a deep hope and wish for peace
however the reality is that we dont want to be like Tibet and live in exile
it is also impossible to ignore antisemitism and it is irrational and without any excuse
As for the Palestinians , they should be able to live in peace , they should be able to live in dignity and i hope that more can be acheived once they realize they can trust Israel.
The problem is people dont really know what israel is like
you should go and visit and see for yourself
I for one can never really hate Moslems even though i have seen the result of terrorist acts and know people who have lost loved ones
i know the other side suffers too but i can never make declarations of wanting to kill them like they do of us.
That is the big difference between the mentality and philiosophy which is the result of the value system upon which the people have been raised.
No one wants to kill but no one also wants to be killed again.
I hope it will one day stop but first both sides must want peace
above all and both sides must learn to talk without the US or anyone else
but as people who both belong there , accepting eachother.