Do you agree? Yes or NO?

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MikeInRI

Yes, I agree that Palestine has the right to exist - I have always been an advocate of a two state solution.

Good Luck!!!

HopelessZ00

Yes, I agree that Palestine has the right to exist! Peace!

krm29619

Yes, that's their right, I don't know the reason for no..

Jeane O

Yes but with one condition, Israeli which is full armed and supported by the US stop fighting and stop trying to occupy Palestinians people land.

Although they both were created by the UN but if one want to invade the other we should fight the invaders.
It's all over the world.
Invaders should not exist in this modern world.

Opposition can say that the Palestinians are terrorrists, but whatelse can they do to defend themselves, what else can they do against well armoured bunch of people.

But that is only my opinion. Not because I am pro muslims or muslims terrorists but I am against arrogance.

It's getting too much now in my opinion.

Mimi- Ů…ŮŠŮ…ŮŠ - ×ž×™×ž×™

Yes Palestine has the right to exist and the Israelis shouldn't have occupied the Palestinian part given by the UN from the begining. They should have got their part and get satisfied by defeating the Arabs who attacked them rather than occupying the land of innocent. The Palestinians are not the one who started the war. It is the neighbouring Arabic countries.

Lew

Yes, of course Palestine has the right to exist, whether they can do so in peace with Israel is something entirely different.

Michael J

I disagree. The UN did not CREATE either country; what the UN did was partition the land into an area given to the Jews and an area given to the Arabs. The Jews created a country called Israel with the land that was given to them. The Arabs on the other hand never got around to it: at first they just attacked Israel, and when that failed they allowed Jordan and Egypt to pick up the pieces. During the 20 years between the UN partition plan and the Six Day War, land was in Arab hands and no country was created, despite UN intentions. This country was never created because doing so would be a de-facto acceptance of Israel, something united Arabia was loathe to do. Instead they clung to the belief that the entire area belongs to them, and rejected the UN partition plan outright - the same plan you are now attempting to draw legitimacy from, and so I must disagree with your assessment. Israel's right to exist (in this context) stems from the fact that with the land it received it did indeed found a State, while the Arabs did not.

flesh

No, Israel should not give up any of their land to these people.

Wise

For information only Palestine existed long before the UN. It even existed before the Bible. Palestine was concurred and occupied by the Jews who were kicked out of Europe (much the same like what we did to the original inhabitants of this land here in the USA). Prior to that the hole land was called Palestine. There were Jews in Palestine who coexisted peacefully with the Arabs before that.

kismet

Yes, I agree.
Now what do we do about Hamas, which claims Israel has no right to exist?
What do we do about those who shoot rockets into Israel all day every day?
Can we please agree on WHERE we should all exist?????
(I vote for Texas, but nobody wants to hear my opinion...)

Freedom F

No.

I don't believe that ersatz israel has a right to exist.

paperback_writer

Yes, I agree with you totally. You are right.

Will you agree that there would today be a Palestinian state, if the Arab world had not rejected the very partition plan that you are making reference to? The Jews agreed to it, they weren't the ones who stopped it from happening!

edit - wtf? I get a thumbs down for agreeing with Mark and stating a fact?

MARK, NOW PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION :) It is verifiable fact that the Jews agreed to partition - it was the Arab world who rejected it. Had they not done so, there would today be a Palestinian state.

DANIEL W

I agree that Palestine has a right to exist, but first they must stop electing governemnts who have Israel's destruction at it raison d'etre.

When a separate state of Palestine exists it must live in peace and security with Israel.

Yes they have the right to exist but it's the Palestine's that do not want two states they want Israel to be annihilated!

Ivri Anokhi

You forget, likely intentionally, that the Arabs rejected partition, while the Jews accepted it.

Let us hear what other Arabs have said:

"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".

- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -

"There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not".

- Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946 -

"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".

- Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -

Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:
"The only Arab domination since the Conquest in the year 635 hardly lasted, as such, 22 years".

The preceding declarations by Arab politicians have been made before 1967, as they had not the slightest knowledge of the existence of any Palestinian people. How and when did they change their mind and decided that such people existed? When the State of Israel was reborn in 1948, the "Palestinians" did not exist yet, the Arabs had still not discovered that "ancient" people. They were too busy with the purpose of annihilating the new Sovereign State and did not intend to create any Palestinian entity, but only to distribute the land among the already existing Arab states. They were defeated. They attempted again to destroy Israel in 1967, and were humiliated in only six days, in which they lost the lands that they had usurped in 1948. In those 19 years of Arab occupation of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, neither Jordan nor Egypt suggested to create a "Palestinian" state, since the still non-existing Palestinians would have never claimed their alleged right to have their own state... Paradoxically, during the British Mandate, it was not any Arab group but the Jews that were known as "Palestinians"!

What other Arabs declared after the Six-Day War:

"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".

- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -

"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".

- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -

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HIROHITO

OK .. what the hell UN has to do with the creation and rights of both Israel & Palestine?

moneymaker

Syria has the right to exist, Jordan has the right to exist, Egypt has the right to exist, Lebanon has the right to exist... All of the so-called "palestinians" have the right to exist in all of the countries above.
Israel MUST exist in its current place, and also in place of Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

mama_pajama_1

I think this question is a bit redundant.

I've seen countless postings by Israelis acknowledging that Palestine should have had an independent state already. I've also said this. I know mark has seen them because he's posted on a great many of those pages, too.

However, I'm disturbed that these kinds of questions are used to try to make the state of Israel appear illigetimate by people who simply lie. I see statements such as comparing the United States expansionism and treatment of Native American Indians to Israel's attempt to survive in the Middle East. They are in NO manner similar..to declare that Israel has displaced and tried to commit genocide on a native population is the most egregious LIE and it is said for no other reason than to incite hatred.

This is propaganda, pure and simple. I have had TWO Lakota friends tell me that there have been Palestinian representatives come to the Rosebud (Sicangu)reservation seeking to incite Jew hate by speeches THERE ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS..telling them ISRAEL is doing to the Palestinians what the United States did to them!

Luckily, my friends who are both old enough to have lived through the years 1967-73 and recall both of those attacks..knew better and were disturbed to see this happening. They were even fearful that there was incitement for their youth to seek some kind of alliance in trying to undermine "the west" since it is no stretch to imagine that disenfranchised Indians are none to pleased at the continued unfair treatment of their nations rights.

There is apparently a campaign now to try to garner support for DISPLACING the entire nation of Israel to create Palestine out of the remaining SMALL percent of the British Mandate of Palestine that became Israel...by using a false comparison to what the United States did to the Native American Indian Nations.

I think this is not something done to promote peace at all if you must make outrageous lies about the other in order to justify your existence or right to a nation. The right of the Palestinians to their own nation has never been denied. However it cannot displace Israel to do it. Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians did not have the geographic area of Israel as a homeland..the geographic area of British Mandate Palestine covered a much larger swath of land and Israel simply wants the land it now inhabits to be a land of peace for all its people Arab Muslim, Jew, Christian and others who are citizens.

Please work to nation building for Palestine in a manner that does not promote hatreds or seek to undermine peace..Israel AND Jews world wide would be at your side to support this and aide you if THAT were truly the goal!

Shalom

spReez

Of course!

Only as far away as possible from Israel.

diana

but no one said that Israel has to give land to Palestinians!

jhong

Both of themhave the right to exist. But the question is where? Will they settle in a third country? Will any country allow to settle them. the problem is the establishment of government. Government is just an embodiment of laws. It is not a living thing. It is just a collective effort of people supporting it. Man can live anywhere in this earth. Both of them, Jew and Palestines, have identities they want to preserve. And this identity is what is causing trouble. Can they live together in one piece of land? They can but they have to abandon their aspirations.

ABC

NO, Israel has no right to exist.

mr. y

sure.sooner or later they will blow each other off the face of the earth.then we can stop wasting time talking about them and focus on more important things.like football.

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