07-22-2003, 01:36 PM
Hi,
first I want to say that I will not start mentioning the who was there really first arguments. (I'm also an atheist, so I don't believe anything christians, muslims, jews etc. say about holy places) If you show me ten israelis and ten palestinians I am not able to see the difference, a same thing that can even more clearly been said about katholics and protestants in ireland). Hatred is by both people's beeing preached by leaders mainly. Concluding I will not say one of both groups is right in what they believe.
However we have a conflict here in which one of the groups is inhabitant of one of the world richest countries, is heavily supported by the USA an governs the land, while the other group is living in extreme poverty with no future hopes whatsoever. Terrorism can of course not be aproved of, but I can also imagine very good why a palastian would do it. Let's make it clear, you are not going to do a suicide attack, just because on school they teached you to hate the jews. If you decide to do this suicide attack your life stinks so incredibly and you are without hope that it is the only thing you want to do. If you kill yourself, why not take with you some of the "enemy", that is how they think.
The first thing that has of course to be done, is create a basis of equality; a country cannot have to different classes of citizens which have such a difference in wealth and freedom. I don't think israel has to be afraid to be run over by other arab countries.
Of course for the USA and in lesser extent for europe it is economically very important to have a "nice" conflict running somewhere far from home, that is the main reason the conflict is not solved yet. I think that if you ask palestinians and israelis if thet would like a country without violence, in which everybody can visit every sacred place that he wants most of them would say yes.
first I want to say that I will not start mentioning the who was there really first arguments. (I'm also an atheist, so I don't believe anything christians, muslims, jews etc. say about holy places) If you show me ten israelis and ten palestinians I am not able to see the difference, a same thing that can even more clearly been said about katholics and protestants in ireland). Hatred is by both people's beeing preached by leaders mainly. Concluding I will not say one of both groups is right in what they believe.
However we have a conflict here in which one of the groups is inhabitant of one of the world richest countries, is heavily supported by the USA an governs the land, while the other group is living in extreme poverty with no future hopes whatsoever. Terrorism can of course not be aproved of, but I can also imagine very good why a palastian would do it. Let's make it clear, you are not going to do a suicide attack, just because on school they teached you to hate the jews. If you decide to do this suicide attack your life stinks so incredibly and you are without hope that it is the only thing you want to do. If you kill yourself, why not take with you some of the "enemy", that is how they think.
The first thing that has of course to be done, is create a basis of equality; a country cannot have to different classes of citizens which have such a difference in wealth and freedom. I don't think israel has to be afraid to be run over by other arab countries.
Of course for the USA and in lesser extent for europe it is economically very important to have a "nice" conflict running somewhere far from home, that is the main reason the conflict is not solved yet. I think that if you ask palestinians and israelis if thet would like a country without violence, in which everybody can visit every sacred place that he wants most of them would say yes.