nora83: thnaks for your reply ,
well ! lets say all wat you said is correct , Jews lived in Palestine 2000 years ago, and they left , or had to leave , or anything happened .. and after these 2000 , lots of thing happened !! alooot , i mean its 2000 year , another nation lived there and here and died and other nations lived again and died and so on , so its kind of nor fair , to uproot the nation living currently in this land to replace them with the Jews m just for the fact that they lived here 2000 years ago , 2000 years ago , that caused huge disasters for our people , plus , we dont believe in your beliefs , when u say that you have the right to live here and rule the land bcz u livedhere 2000 years ago, the irabic islamic civilisation ( if you read in our history ) you will know that our impire extended into many far places , like the Spain , Turkey , China , and many other places, and lived there and ruled these lands for a longtime, and that was less than 1000 years ago, but we cant come now and accupy Spain or China or Turkey just bcz we lived there , i cant go there and kick its ppl our of it and kill them , and make of them refugees all over the world , committ crimes , just bcz my ancester lived there before , which is less than 2000 years ago , i never heard of this before .
thanks again for your post
Thank you Nora for your response. You have my admiration and respect for all the pain that you feel in your heart.
As I have mentioned in my posting to you, the Jews have never left the land in question over the 1000s of years, nor have your people either. Both were displaced or driven out on both sides. But many of both peoples were able to remain there and many descendants have come back to the area of their ancestors origins.
Both nations as descendants of Abraham should be able to share the land, not anihilate the other for the right to own everything. Hence the historical battles started happening and continue to this day.
I did see the CNN article where Hamas fired at Israel from a school right by the refugee camps and Israel fired back, thus killing many children. I cannot understand why anyone would shoot at their enemy and put their children right in the line of fire where the enemy is firing at them. Is this a religious obligation to do this? I do not understand the Islamic law if this is something that is approved of. This is not meant as a sarcastic question but truly, something that perhaps you might be able to clarify.
I have also just read on today's CNN a commentary by Arsalan Ilftikhar where he believes both sides are wrong in Gaza. He blames Hamas for provoking Israel with missle fire and then the disproportionate use of military retaliation by the Israelis. The entire article gives one pause to think with some deep thinking, being written by a man of middle eastern Islamic decent.
Bottom line here Nora is that both sides of the civilians have suffered, emotionally and physically. It will either come down to where Hamas is totally surrounded and will either hide themselves and shoot and continue to put their civilians in the crossfire or have the courage to lay down their weapons and sign a permanent peace treaty with Israel. I believe the Palestinian peoples future and recognition for statehood lies in having the honor to sign a peace treaty and permanently honor it. No more rockets into Israel, no more human life shed on either side.
They would not be the first to sign a peace treaty with the enemy in the entire history of the world. Japan and Egypt are examples of what could be acheived with a lasting peace with their sworn enemy...a chance for future generations. It has to be a lasting peace Nora for your people to have a chance. Please correct me if I'm wrong in stating that Japan and Egypt overall live in peace with their prior enemies. No bombs being dropped on each other that is.
Again, thanks for your posting.