Who started the war in israel?

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Galahad

It essentially began with the Balfour declaration in 1917; but the real action - and the agenda - emerged in 1919 with the arrival of the Jewish Commission,which eventually became the Jewish Agency which became in turn the so-called Israeli government. The agenda was and remains crystal clear: ethnic cleansing. The purpose of what is known as Zionism is to drive out from Palestine all persons not jewish in some pseudo-ethnic or geneological sense or jewish by faith. They are predominately Russian atheists with a grandparent who practiced Judaism. Christian or Muslim,no one is permitted to immigrate to the Holy Land since 1948 when the Zionists took over.

Ferrari Enzo

Here you are, it was planned long before Israel existed

"There are people (Arabs) who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradles of human civilizations and religions. These people have one faith, one language, one history and the same aspirations. No natural barriers can isolate these people from one another ... if, per chance, this nation were to be unified into one state, it would then take the fate of the world into its hands and would separate Europe from the rest of the world. Taking these considerations seriously, a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending wars. It could also serve as a springboard for the West to gain its coveted objects." Prime Minister Henry Bannerman, Campbell-Bannerman Report, 1907

The state was the Khilafah, and the "foreign body" is Israel!!!

nora*

this might surprise you but jews were living in peace under muslim rule. they were fleeing from the christian europeans and crusades to the abasid dynasty,,,which was under muslim rule at the time. they were living peacefully.
the problem is from the zionists. they're the selfish ones. all they did was use propaganda to gain sympathy because of the holocaust [*let me just point out that jews were not the only ones targeted during the holocaust*]. this caused the UN and the united states to side with them with the establishment of israel. and now jews think they have all the power but all theyre actually getting is sympathy. palestine was peaceful until zionists got involved.
and im not saying jews are bad. its the extremists that make things worst.

unforsakenme

Britain/UN started the whole thing.
Jews wanted to make a country, and the U.N. allowed them while people were still in that land.
That caused the fight, as well as the 60 year oppression Israel imposed on the Palestinians.

jmnmic27

after the six day war, israel recaptured the west bank from jordan
the arabs who had been living there were known as "palestinians" b/c it was the area in which the jews had been living in and calling palestine for over 100 years
these arabs were very angry (to say the least) that they had lost the war to the israelis, and remain so until today. the isrealis dont treat them very well b/c why would they treat their enemies well
there have been several wars fought over this, including the most recent one--the palestinians feel that isreal is occupying their land, while israel feels the rocket barrages are unjust, b/c they won the land in war

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on the 5th of the hebrew month iyar israel became a state.

the next day, egypt, jordan, syria, lebanon, and saudi arabia attacked...

and it has been ongoing...

__A_YAHOO_USER__

israel started the war and muslims will end it

Abraham P

May I have a simple observation here?! If you are living in some EU country and meet your BF here(I do not know about the rules in North American context) I would say that: first make sure that your BF is really a Palestinian. I am saying that because I have heard some Arab people accepted as Palestinian refugees here in EU while they later admitted that they were from Egypt or Jordan or somewhere but claiming to be Palestinian(and somehow proving that) was a foolproof strategy to get refugee status and subsequently assuming the citizenship.

I have great respect towards refugees however and it sickens me when some(a few/ a lot/ whatever) Arab asylum fraudsters pass the borders as Palestinians and makes it even harder for real people in need of protection. I even heard that a decent looking guy claimes to be Palestinian with Israeli passport and later turns out he was from Gaza on refugee status(you never know)!!!

aprilisnewlife

Sarah and Haggar

trancinguy

The real question should have been, why are so many stories consistent with his? the claim for refuge that is.

"why israel is killing the palestinian population?"
Brain wash.

"what did they do, why palestinians are firing bombs ?"
Freedom Fighters get things done.

ggopri

Ask your BF to explain to you the following.
1.If Israel,who has the mightest army in the Middle East,
is killing the "palestinian population",then how could this
" genocided" population grow 15 times in just 60 last years?In 1948 there were about 200 thousand palestinian arabs in Palestine.Now,there are more than 1,5 Million in Gaza,about 800 thousand in West Bank,and almost a million in Israel."Killed","oppressed" and "genocided" population does not grow,you know.And a "genocided" population growing 15 times in 60 years...It´s impossible.
2.Ask your BF,if he can tell you the exact number of palestinian arabs who were killed by the IDF in the course of the last intifada ( it was called Intifada of AlAqsa).When he starts to tell you about hundreds of thousands and millions,ask him why the UN statistics,together with the Red Cross,tell only about 3200 arabs killed,80% of whom were armed when they were killed.Also,you can inform him that the number of Israelis killed in this intifada was 1100,and 75% of them were women and children.
WARNING!The chances are high that after that you will lose this guy,because he will not be able to answer you,but will automatically incude you in the endless files of the "Zionists"(it´s a code name the palestinian arabs use for anyone who refuses to believe automatically all this nonsense they are telling).

Bravo Sierra

You are one luckiest persons on earth.
take the time and read this

There are three steps that should be taken for Palestine to sue Israel before the International Court of Justice for genocide. First, the President of the State of Palestine must deposit an Instrument of Accession to the 1948 Genocide Convention with the U.N. Secretary General, the depositary for the Convention. This Accession would become effective in ninety days.

Second, the President of the State of Palestine should deposit a Declaration with the International Court of Justice accepting the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and with the terms and subject to the conditions of the Statute and Rules of the Court, and undertaking to comply in good faith with the decisions of the Court and to accept all the obligations of a Member State of the United Nations under Article 94 of the United Nations Charter. Article 35(2) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice gives the Security Council the power to determine the conditions under which the World Court shall be open to states such as Palestine that are not yet Parties to the ICJ Statute. These conditions have been set forth by the Security Council in a Resolution of 15 October 1946. I would recommend that the State of Palestine consider making a "general declaration" accepting the jurisdiction of the World Court generally in respect of all disputes which have already arisen, or which may arise in the future, as permitted by paragraph 2 of this 15 October 1946 Security Council Resolution.

Pursuant to the terms of paragraph 5 of that Resolution, "All questions as to the validity or the effect of a declaration made under the terms of this resolution shall be decided by the Court." Therefore, it would be for the World Court itself to decide whether Palestine is a State entitled to exercise the powers conferred by the Security Council in its Resolution of 15 October 1946. For reasons explained in more detail below and elsewhere,1 I believe the World Court will decide in favor of Palestine on this matter of its Statehood.

To the same effect is Article 41 of the Rules of Procedure of the International Court of Justice:

Article 41

The institution of proceedings by a State which is not a party to the Statute but which, under Article 35, paragraph 2, thereof, has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court by a declaration made in accordance with any resolution adopted by the Security Council under that Article, shall be accompanied by a deposit of the declaration in question, unless the latter has previously been deposited with the Registrar. If any question of the validity or effect of such declaration arises, the Court shall decide.

The Security Council Resolution referred to in Article 41 that is now in force is the Resolution of 15 October 1946 mentioned above.

Lando

Israel is not, your bf is misinformed.

i figured i would post this link to show you the dangers of dating Palestinians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezar_Hindawi

The First Dragon

It started when the Ottoman Empire fell in WWI. Parts of the Empire that were not organized enough to form their own governments were ruled by European powers. The UK was assigned to rule an area called the British Mandate of Palestine. It included what are now called Jordan, Israel, West Bank and Gaza. The UK was assigned to make it ready to govern itself.
First the UK wanted it to be made into a Jewish Homeland. But a lot of the Arabs there were against this idea. There was a movement against Jews among the Arabs in Palestine, led by Haj Mohammad Amin Husayni, an ally of Hitler. He and his followers wanted to remove all Jews from the Mandate of Palestine, and have Muslims only in an Islamic state. He was, in fact, the Father of the modern Arab-Israeli conflict.
So the UK gave most of Palestine to form Jordan. Some was given to form Israel. West Bank was part of Jordan and Gaza was part of Egypt.
Israel offered full citizenship to any Arabs that were living within its borders, as long as they were peaceful. But Arab neighbors made war on Israel as soon as it was founded in 1948, and many Arabs left Israel then. Israel won and continued to exist, and many Arabs stayed in Israel.
Ever since then, Arabs living in West Bank and Gaza have tried to destroy Israel with the goal of bringing it under Muslim rule and getting rid of the Jews. Fatah and Hamas both have this goal in their Charters. However, they have not managed to organize the people to form a stable government, as there is fighting among factions.
Israel took over West Bank and Gaza in 1967, in an effort to stop shelling of Israel from these lands. Around this time, I think, the name Palestine was appropriated by Arabs in West Bank and Gaza, rather than referring to the whole region, as it was before.
One difference between Israel and the unorganized Palestinians is their attitude toward defenseless civilians. Palestinian militants have attacked defenseless civilians almost exclusively, rather than taking on the Israeli military. And the expect Palestinian civilians to help them by surrounding Palestinian military sites, so that if the Israelis strike them, they will be killing civilians and children.
Israelis, on the other hand, avoid putting their own civilians in harm's way, and try to avoid killing Palestinian civilians. They even send warnings in advance of an attack, depriving themselves of the advantage of surprise, in order to encourage civilians to get out of the way.
So to make it short: Israelis kill Palestinians only in an effort to stop Palestinian attacks on Israel; it is the Palestinians themselves who put their own civilians in the way. Palestinians are shooting into Israel in hopes that terrorism will frighten Israel into giving up without a fight.

tamarindwalk

My dear, you have a lot of reading to do in trying to determine the answer to your question.
Basically, it would have to be the zionists - who grabbed what they could and then unilaterally declared independence as quickly as the British gave up their mandate. Ever since then, the zionists have respected no law, save their own which they change to convenience themselves.
But do read as there are many interpretations of the events and you will need to make up your own mind.

dandyl

Israel was responding to unprovoked terror rocket attacks from Hamas terrorists in Gaza against Israeli civilians, the Israel Defense Forces has launched a massive counter attack.
The Hamas government leaders and operatives, which activate terror from within civilian population centers, are the sole bearers of responsibility for Israel's military response. This response is crucial for preserving Israel's security interests.

The IDF Spokesperson states that anyone sponsoring terror, hosting terror in his house, housing terror in his basement and sending his wives and children to serve as human shields - is considered a terrorist.

The IDF will continue its activity against terror activities according to operational assessments held by the Chief of the General Staff.

In addition, the Israel IDF Homefront Command and emergency authorities, have taken all necessary measures for preparing the civilian population.
Hamas is not a ‘resistance movement,’ it is a terrorist organization whose attacks precipitated Operation Cast Lead. The group’s behavior also violated international legal conventions and its fighters and leaders committed numerous war crimes.

United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Chief John Holmes told the UN Security Council, “The reckless and cynical use of civilian installations by Hamas and indiscriminate firing of rockets against civilian populations are clear violations of international humanitarian law.”19a

It is a war crime to deliberately target civilians. Hamas indiscriminately fired rockets and mortar rounds at cities and neighborhoods in Israel since 2001. No UN resolution was adopted to condemn this war crime and no international effort was made to prevent more than 10,000 rockets and mortars from bombarding Israel.

Hamas also bears direct responsibility for civilian casualties in Gaza because it is a violation of international law to launch attacks from civilian infrastructure. According to the Geneva Conventions and other laws of war, civilians are to be protected and distinguished from combatants. This protection extends to civilian areas to minimize harm to innocents. Hamas provoked return fire on civilian areas by launching attacks from densely populated areas and, specifically, from inside and the vicinity of private homes, schools, mosques, and hospitals. In a report to the Israeli cabinet, Israeli intelligence chief, Yuval Diskin, indicated that the Gaza-based leadership of Hamas was hiding in an underground bunker beneath Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip.20 Hamas also endangered civilians by ordering its forces to discard uniforms and dress in regular clothes that made them indistinguishable from the civilian population.

In an egregious violation of international law, Hamas terrorists used civilians as human shields, for example, sending them onto rooftops to deter Israeli attacks on their leaders and rocket crews.

Hamas also violated the prohibition on the use of humanitarian symbols as shields. It is illegal, for example, for fighters to try to protect themselves through the use of “signs, emblems or uniforms of the United Nations or of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict.”21 Hamas repeatedly used humanitarian aid trucks and ambulances to transport fighters and weapons and launched attacks from the proximity of UN buildings and schools.

Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister, Member of Parliament, and law professor at McGill University, observed that Hamas also violates the prohibitions against the incitement of genocide. “The Hamas covenant itself is a standing incitement to genocide,” says Cotler.22 In contrast to Israel’s military operation to defend itself from attack, Hamas’ violence targeting Israeli Jews is a part of a grander goal to kill all Jews.

Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians have been systematic and widespread, as opposed to infrequent, and are therefore defined in the treaty of the International Criminal Court and international humanitarian law as a crime against humanity.

Hamas’ final, and arguably most horrendous, war crime is its recruitment of children into armed conflict. From a young age, Palestinian children are taught hatred for Jews and are bombarded with images, written messages, and broadcasts that glorify martyrdom. They are often pressed into service to engage in or assist others in terrorist activities, including acting as suicide bombers.

Given the extent of their violations of international law, the world has an obligation to demand that the leaders of Hamas be charged with war crimes.

Simple Simon

Israel does not kill palestinians as you say.
What Israel did is New Separation Fence between them and Palestinians.
But since the theft from inside Israel was #1 Palestinian industry, The Fence is very harmful to them, so Palestinians call it Environmental Disaster.
Palestinians fire rockets over the fence with demand to remove it and try hijack Israelis for ransom, same as Somali Muslim pirates do.

PaperbackWriter JPA

Basic facts for you:

The term 'palestinian' always referred to the Palestinian Jews that have lived in that region for the past 3500 years.

The Palestine Post newspaper, for instance - was 100% Jewish. It later became the Jerusalem Post, and still exists today.

The Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra - again, it was 100% Jewish

In the early 1900s, some European Jews came over to join the Palestinian Jews. They were on deserted land. No other groups living there - it was mostly swamp, marsh. The Jews drained the swamps; quite a number died of malaria.

But they worked hard, and began turning the desert and sand dunes into a viable place to live. This, in turn, provided more work, and a large number of Arabs, from the surrounding Arab nations, came to live and work there also.

Fast forward to 1923: Jordan is created as an Arab state. She takes up 82% of what WAS Palestine.

1948: the Brits, who held the legal rights to Palestine, finally fulfilled their promise to create a national Jewish homeland there - the move towards this had been going on for over a CENTURY!

18% of Israel remains: a bit goes to the Palestinian Jews, the rest goes to the Palestinian Arabs.

The Jews celebrate.
The entire Arab world went beserk, screamed blue murder at the mere notion of any Jewish state, then SIX ARAB ARMIES attacked the new state of Israel, in May 1948.

This is objective, verifiable historical fact.

Now, that said: the Palestinian Arabs HAVE suffered. When the Arab nations attacked, the Palestinian Arabs were told by them to get out, and that they could 'return once the jews have been pushed into the sea'.

Understandably, the Palestinian Arabs were scared and MOST fled. Those that stayed, became full Israeli citizens. But those that fled, were THEN abandoned BY the Arab world. They were stuck in terrible refugee camps. So Gaza was occupied by Egypt - Egypt mined the borders and wouldn't let the Palestinians out. Jordan occupied the 'west bank' and again, left the Palestinians to rot in refugee camps.

That's a brief summary of a complex history!

http://www.arabsforisrael.com
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Considering he is dating, he is obviously a dirty person who shames his family, so I wouldnt trust a word from him. Dating is seen as prostitution in Palestinian culture.

Arieh

I think that you are lying and pretending to be someone you're not. But hey, that could just be my paranoid streak coming out.

† Thorae † is Pro-Israeli

Israel at one point occupied the Gaza Strip, but they left a few years ago. Hamas isJews. a terrorist organization whose basic goals include destroying Israel and all Jews. They are in the Gaza Strip and constantly fire crude rockets into civilian areas in Israel. Your boyfriend is either lying or biased if he says Israel is massacring the Palestinian population or killing them randomly, because the Palestinian population has QUADRUPLED since 1948.

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna)

Hamas openly admits that they use human shields and are proud of it. They basically pick a random woman or child off the street and use them as shields.
Human shield confession by a Hamas leader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0wJXf2nt4Y
Hamas using a human shield:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejVJWSTTpY
Pictures of Hamas using human shields:
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/HamasHumanShields.gif
http://blog.camera.org/archives/HumanShields.jpg

Hamas fires from schools, uses ambulances as terrorist transporters, and hides weapons in Mosques and hospitals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLbZyWZI3hU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xjsfBGt4ik&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sow8R9uZ_4&feature=related
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15634
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275299.html

Hamas has absolutely NO respect for human and children's rights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8

This is why Israel attacked the Gaza Strip, or "Palestine".

JewishFeminist&Geek

Pali's started the whole thing they didn;t want to live in peace with us Jews they wanted everything for themselves and still do today

Kevin S

"Who started the war in israel?"

Did anybody notice the framing of the question. If her b/f was an arab the question would read....

Who started the war in Palestine.......

Run as fast as you can. Didn't your Dad tell you to be wary?

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