Who is Right ?

[Changhao]

Over the years Palestine and The Muslim world have consistently argued with Israel. Here are some examples:

Six Day War: 1967
Yom Kippur War: 1973
Various small scale Muslim Attacks: 1973-Present
Israeli aggression in Palestine and vice versa: 1947-Present

So why do they hate each other so much in the first place and who is right?

[Dyakovo]

I am

[Khadgar]

None of the above.

[Dolbri]

I am

Dude, I was gonna say that.

On topic: the Palestinian problem is very complicated, but I generally find that none of them are right -- and by "them" I mean extremists on either side, who seem to be dominating the news and public opinion.

[Conserative Morality]

"Holy shit! The Jews just took our land!!!"
*fighting*
*Fifty years later*
Me: "Let it go."
Israel and surrounding countries "Never!"

[Colonic Immigration]

I am

Beaten to the punch. You win.

[Barzan]

Over the years Palestine and The Muslim world have consistently argued with Israel. Here are some examples:

Six Day War: 1967
Yom Kippur War: 1973
Various small scale Muslim Attacks: 1973-Present
Israeli aggression in Palestine and vice versa: 1947-Present

So why do they hate each other so much in the first place and who is right?

You neglected to answer your own question. If you're going to post something, how about adding come commentary of your own?

I'll add my own:

Both sides need to simmer down. Israel needs to give back its pre-1967 territories and then everyone else needs to give it up. The problem is religious fanatics, both Jews and Muslims.

[Angleter]

Palestinians do not exist as a people, but the Jews do. 'Palestinians' are an Arab people whose faux nationality dates back to 1920, upon the Mandate for Palestine's creation by the League of Nations. In 1947, due to popular demand, the Jewish people were given a homeland carved out of the Mandate of Palestine. The Arabs maintained half of Palestine, and lost territory after successive failed wars of aggression against Israel.

My solution is to unite all the Arab states as one nation- possibly a federation under a Hashemite emperor, and leave Israel (and Lebanon) as they are now.

[Dolbri]

Palestinians do not exist as a people

Unfortunately for those silly Zionists, there's nothing better for a people's feelings of nationality than a common enemy.

My solution is to unite all the Arab states as one nation

Yes because we definitely need a single nation in control of half of the world's oil reserves.
EDIT: I actually don't see how this would solve the Palestinian problem. They are fighting over land, and more importantly, religion.

[The Imperial Navy]

It won't end until either Israel or the Palestinians are totally destroyed. Their hatred is now sealed in their blood, and will never cool.

[Khadgar]

Palestinians do not exist as a people, but the Jews do. 'Palestinians' are an Arab people whose faux nationality dates back to 1920, upon the Mandate for Palestine's creation by the League of Nations. In 1947, due to popular demand, the Jewish people were given a homeland carved out of the Mandate of Palestine. The Arabs maintained half of Palestine, and lost territory after successive failed wars of aggression against Israel.

My solution is to unite all the Arab states as one nation- possibly a federation under a Hashemite emperor, and leave Israel (and Lebanon) as they are now.

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

[Dolbri]

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

I think the Jews wanted Jerusalem at all costs.

Though maybe you could just move their wailing wall to Montana or something.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Over the years Palestine and The Muslim world have consistently argued with Israel. Here are some examples:

Six Day War: 1967
Yom Kippur War: 1973
Various small scale Muslim Attacks: 1973-Present
Israeli aggression in Palestine and vice versa: 1947-Present

So why do they hate each other so much in the first place and who is right?

Like the song says, "Nobody's right if everybody's wrong"

[Khadgar]

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

I think the Jews wanted Jerusalem at all costs.

Though maybe you could just move their wailing wall to Montana or something.

I think that's insufficient justification for the deaths that resulted. Still, the world was reeling from WWII and felt guilty and thus caved.

[The_pantless_hero]

Palestinians do not exist as a people, but the Jews do.

They exist as a people in the exact same way the Palestinians do.

[Opola]

The bible actually gotone thing right! There will always be bloodshed in the middle east.

[Barzan]

My solution is to unite all the Arab states as one nation...

Yeah, you could call it the United Arab Republic! (Man, for some reason I can't kick this feeling that something like that has been tried before and didn't work...)

Arab states hate each other almost as much as they hate Israel. It's the magic of religion. The Lebanese had wars over the "true" Islam, the Saudis kill the "wrong" kind, while the Iranian government claims theirs is the "true" one.

[Grays Harbor]

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

actually, they were. The UN divided the mandate into two seperate territories, one Israel, the other Palestine. Palestine did not achieve their independence as Israel did because the arab nations (Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia plus a few others) invaded and occupied them. The Sanai and Gaza were given to Egypt, the Golan to Syria, and the West Bank to Jordan. All were used as staging grounds for further attacks on Israel, and were lost to israel in subsequent wars of aggression by the arab nations.

[Khadgar]

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

actually, they were. The UN divided the mandate into two seperate territories, one Israel, the other Palestine. Palestine did not achieve their independence as Israel did because the arab nations (Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia plus a few others) invaded and occupied them. The Sanai and Gaza were given to Egypt, the Golan to Syria, and the West Bank to Jordan. All were used as staging grounds for further attacks on Israel, and were lost to israel in subsequent wars of aggression by the arab nations.

How is that related at all to what I said?

[Malibus]

So, why does "existing as a people" make on worthy of being a state? Why did Palestine get the short end of the stick when it came to give the Jews land? Hell why not give them a big slab of Montana. No one would notice or care.

actually, they were. The UN divided the mandate into two seperate territories, one Israel, the other Palestine. Palestine did not achieve their independence as Israel did because the arab nations (Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia plus a few others) invaded and occupied them. The Sanai and Gaza were given to Egypt, the Golan to Syria, and the West Bank to Jordan. All were used as staging grounds for further attacks on Israel, and were lost to israel in subsequent wars of aggression by the arab nations.

How is that related at all to what I said?

The UN divided the mandate into two seperate (sic) territories, one Israel, the other Palestine.

Because you obviously missed it the first time, he is saying both Palestine and Israel got some land from the UN, so your "short end of the stick" argument is being refuted.

[Khadgar]

The UN divided the mandate into two seperate (sic) territories, one Israel, the other Palestine.

Because you obviously missed it the first time, he is saying both Palestine and Israel got some land from the UN, so your "short end of the stick" argument is being refuted.

Palestine existed. The UN took a big old chunk and gave it to the Jews naming it Israel. How did the Palestinians not get hosed in the exchange?

[Yootopia]

So why do they hate each other so much in the first place

Because the Levant isn't that big.

and who is right?

Absolutely nobody in that particular bit of the world.

[Vojvodina-Nihon]

The UN divided the mandate into two seperate (sic) territories, one Israel, the other Palestine.

Because you obviously missed it the first time, he is saying both Palestine and Israel got some land from the UN, so your "short end of the stick" argument is being refuted.

Palestine existed. The UN took a big old chunk and gave it to the Jews naming it Israel. How did the Palestinians not get hosed in the exchange?

I do believe that was British territory before the UN took control of it, not "Palestinian" territory.

If anything the UK should be complaining.

To answer the question: everyone's wrong. Even I'm wrong. But I, unlike the Israelis and Palestinians, accept that.

[Ravea]

Nobody is right.

[Yootopia]

I do believe that was British territory before the UN took control of it, not "Palestinian" territory.

It was a League of Nations 'Mandate'. As in "Colony with some legitimacy".

If anything the UK should be complaining.

Don't really see why, nothing even remotely good about owning a territory where both sides stick bombs up you, and each other, and try to act as if they had no choice.