Can somebody explain the most recent Israel/Palestine conflict?

[Lady's Human]

I'm all for nerf balls at 10 paces.

[Giselle]

Unless you have explicitly said that either side "deserves" what is happening to them or should be targeted, I'm obviously not talking about you. But the statements have been posted here, and it only takes a quick read to see them.

[jennielynn1970]

I don't think any one person said any one side "deserves" what is happening to them. There are certain view points, but that's each person's opinion. I don't think anyone deserves anything bad that has happened when it comes to innocents. If you're radical and you're going to start things, you have to expect things to come back to bite you in the butt. Also, if you start things and blame the other side for whatever, and of course never take responsibility (sorry, but Israel does that all the time... they are never responsible for any of the horrible things they do, it's always someone else's fault).

Still, you want to point fingers and say someone said whatever, just say who or what you mean, instead of saying "read and you'll see". Not saying it is just kinda, well, wimpy. At least then who ever it is can defend whatever it is you think they said.

[Twisterdog]

You lose on this one!!!

Actually, no, I don't.

You may not have grown up in a practicing Christian household, but you grew up in a Christian country. When you decided to start actively practicing a religion, you reached for the Bible, the book of Christians. You didn't go to the library and check out the Qu'an or the Torah and read them cover to cover several times as well, before deciding to start practicing Christianity. I'd bet again, you didn't research the Bahá'í faith, Gnosticism or Jainism.

I'm not saying this in and of itself is wrong. It's human nature. We gravitate towards what we know. If I want to buy a new car, I pick from the choices that I am familar with, that my friends and family own, and are readily available in my area. I choose between a Chevy and a Toyota ... I don't even think about a Tata, a Izmash or a Yulon. It's the same with religion ... when basically non-religious people decide to become religious, they almost always choose the religion of their family, friends or country. Not always, there are exceptions ... that's why I did not say "100%" in my original post. But it's incredibly rare that an American decides to start practicing Kharijite, Sikhism, or iAyyavazhi nstead of Christianity.

[RICHARD]

I'm all for nerf balls at 10 paces.

Paper, scissor, rock perhaps?

Tube socks filled with wet toilet paper?

[Catty1]

Water balloons!

[jennielynn1970]

Tube socks filled with wet toilet paper?

Paper, scissor, rock perhaps?

How about we do the Big Bang Theory one... Rock, paper, scissors, shoot, and Spock fingers to see who wins??

[RICHARD]

How about we do the Big Bang Theory one... Rock, paper, scissors, shoot, and Spock fingers to see who wins??

I think we have a winner!

[blue]

Ill bring the hammer.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

How about we do the Big Bang Theory one... Rock, paper, scissors, shoot, and Spock fingers to see who wins??

I'm all for televised necked mud wrestling myself!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Actually, no, I don't.

You may not have grown up in a practicing Christian household, but you grew up in a Christian country. When you decided to start actively practicing a religion, you reached for the Bible, the book of Christians. You didn't go to the library and check out the Qu'an or the Torah and read them cover to cover several times as well, before deciding to start practicing Christianity. I'd bet again, you didn't research the Bahá'í faith, Gnosticism or Jainism.

I'm not saying this in and of itself is wrong. It's human nature. We gravitate towards what we know. If I want to buy a new car, I pick from the choices that I am familar with, that my friends and family own, and are readily available in my area. I choose between a Chevy and a Toyota ... I don't even think about a Tata, a Izmash or a Yulon. It's the same with religion ... when basically non-religious people decide to become religious, they almost always choose the religion of their family, friends or country. Not always, there are exceptions ... that's why I did not say "100%" in my original post. But it's incredibly rare that an American decides to start practicing Kharijite, Sikhism, or iAyyavazhi nstead of Christianity.

Well, the Torah is part of the Christian Bible so I did read that one several times. Since I had never ever even heard of the others I couldn't research them. We had no computer Google access in those days. Even the libraries were limited as to what religious books were offered.

[RICHARD]

I stand corrected.

Today I was on the pot and was reading the paper.....

THere was a pic of a yoong Arab man throwing a fire bomb at an Israeli fortress/post.


I called them rock throwers, They are arsonists.

[Giselle]

Jenn_librarian, I already have quoted and pointed it out as have several others. It's not that obscure

[blue]

Found this on another board, source and full text here, Link.

Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against:

“Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?”
“We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag”.
“When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out”.

ETA:

No one (Arab or Jew) has a "right of return". Jews who fled Arab persecution from 1948 to 1956 should have no right of return to Arab lands, and Arabs who ran away in 1948 and 1967 should have no right of return either. This should end all argument. Yet the Jews accept this judgment, while the Arabs reject EVERYTHING. - Walid Shoebat

Sorry, forgot the link.