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Does Palestine Have A Right To Exist?

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Steven Vakula Profile
Steven Vakula answered

A key factor to "Have A Right To Exist" is respecting others "Rights to Exist".  To answer this question then the need for additional spedific clarification of missing information. In answering "Does Palestine" The definition of the specific of "Palestine" is needed to answer the question accurately and properly.

Palestine can be described in many different terms and as such answers and the specific "Palestine" perspective or assumed concerns specific to the term "Palestine" and what one's thought of or  thinks "Palestine" is relative to  their stated answer as. Palestine may be:

Palestine, the People? Palestine the Hammas? Palestine the actual place located in the middle east? Palestine and Israel since the it's so long ago it is almost like what's the problem again? Palestine and Israel both being locked in decades and perhaps untold years old of conflict with the Jews of Israel? The difference between what Palestine is for this questions needs clarification as it is rather broad and an  answer to this question could cause more confusion concerning what an answer may or may not relate to and the perhaps perspective surrounding an answer.

martha Profile
martha answered
God has given every country the right to be.  He loves all people, but many reject Him.  But their stand against Israel is against God, and that will not stand.
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Anonymous commented
Is standing up for drinking water against God, too?
martha
martha commented
Ah now let's not be sarcastic. Of course supporting drinking water is not anti-God, that would be ridiculous since He created it! You are really getting carried away! What are you afraid of! Not everything is against God- but if it comes down to pleasing God, or pleasing man, I'll take God. Man is not going to stand up for me before the Throne of God!
Andrew Lewis
Andrew Lewis commented
Hear! Hear!
Simone Love Profile
Simone Love answered
I would have to say yes all place and even people do no matter how bad or good it is. Places that are bad need to have a revolution to get someone new into power. Many places have had revolutions and they have turned out to make the country better
patrick mc mullan Profile
They have as much right to exist as do the israelis. When the nazis tried to exterminate the jewish people they could not succeed. If the israelis try to exterminate the palestinians they will not succeed. Might and military might does not equal right. A two state solution is the only solution but only if the respect from both sides is equal. The israeli approach to the palestinian problem is not reflecting positively on other jews worldwide. Indeed there has been an upsurge in anti semitism. The palestinians have every right to protest and fight to regain their lands.
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Anonymous
Anonymous commented
A two-state solution can work, if neither party rejects the other parties right to exist. Unfortunately, the history of agreements always involves rejectionism of some sort.
Jim Witness Protection Profile
This is a tough one. The conflict is 1000's of years old. Both claim the same piece of dirt as a Holyland. The United Nations said (in 1949 I think), here, Is Real, it's yours. The Palestinians said, no it's not! And away we go. It shows the stupidity of man when all rational thinking is put aside and replaced by non-rational emotional blindness and hatred. Do they have a right to exist? Yes. Do they have the right to lob mortars over the border that kill and maim indiscriminately? No. It is their continued terrorist behavior and "death to the Jews" attitude expressed in their every breath that will revoke that right. And then who are they going to blame?
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Anonymous
Anonymous commented
If your neighborhood were surrounded with barbed wire, and your childeren deprived of medical care and water supplies, you might be tempted to lob projectiles over the fence, too.
Jim Witness Protection
But if you didn't lob mortars into villages and set off car bombs, maybe there wouldn't be any barbed wire. This conflict is so old that it has become a tradition to fight each other. I don't know who cast the first stone way back when, but maybe if everybody put the stones down, they could get somplace. I doubt that will ever happen Ever.
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Anonymous answered
Why wouldn't anyone have the right to exist?
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Anonymous
Anonymous commented
Just because you don't agree with their ways doesn't mean they can't exist
Anonymous
Anonymous commented
What Palestinian "ways" might one disagree with, then?
John Profile
John answered
If i get the question .no they do not at least not in the land they inhabit  or claim right to....
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Anonymous
Anonymous commented
If not their actual homeland, where should the Palestinians be allowed to exist?
John
John commented
Http://www.masada2000.org/historical.html
John
John commented
In my opinion anywhere outside the original borders of israel...
amala Profile
amala answered
It is simple..
Do you have the right to live..?

if your answer is yes, then that answers this question....

and no one has the authority over others life... Not even to judge it.....

Kristi DeMilta Profile
Kristi DeMilta answered
I think all counties, cities, states, countries, towns and the like reserve that right to exist, good or bad. They're obviously there for a reason.
Steve Robinson Profile
Steve Robinson answered
It's not really the Jewish homeland either... Some tribes came back from Egypt - ie., Moses, etc..., others came from the south, from Saudi Arabia... They took Canaan, the land of the Philistines, etc... Away from the original inhabitants.  And over the centuries, have been dominated and conquered by other peoples.  The Palestinians need a home just as much as the Israelis... But they make it hard on themselves by the attacks.  But, I can understand Israels viewpoint, surrounded by Arab states that have done little or nothing to allow the displaced and families of the displaced to become citizens of the lands they now live in. 
Israel does provoke them even more by the continued building of settlements in the disputed territories.
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blurtthetruth tillithurts
Israel was established after WWII as the Jewish "homeland" after Jews were all but obliterated. Today Israel is a recognized democratic, constitutionally governed, soveriegn country. Today "Palestine" is comprised of nomadic and "displaced" Arabs of various countries. A "Palestinian state" must not be "created" until its civilians oust Hamas, Fatah, al-Aqsa (and the like), negotiate a constitution that recognizes Israel, prohibits agression on Israel "negotiates borders". Is that excessive?
Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson commented
I have no problem with Israel's right to exist. Negotiate. There's no other way - you can't kill them all.
blurtthetruth tillithurts Profile
The Palestinian territories are comprised of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—territories that were occupied, by Jordan and Egypt until the 1967 "Six Day War" waged against Israel by Jordan, Egypt and Syria.  Israel "won" the territory by defeating the tri-caliphate attack . Israel occupies it partially for "a buffer zone" to prevent new attacks, and partially to extend it's borders to just over approx. 1/10th of 1% of the land mass in the Middle East ("Arabia") . Hamas is the Palestinian Islamic political party that governs the Gaza Strip.
HAMAS - the Gaza / "Palestinian state" (of mind & intent):
Hamas was founded in 1987 in Gaza by Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas - an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement meaning "zeal" - has been committed to destroying the Jewish state and replacing it with an Islamic state in all of Palestine.
Hamas was created shortly before the December 1987 Intifada as a more militant, Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious, political and social movement founded in Egypt and dedicated to the victory of Islam. Hamas preaches and engages in violence and terror in order to destroy the state of Israel and replace it with an Islamic state. Its virulent hatred of Jews and Judaism is deeply rooted in the anti-Semitic writings of Muslim Brotherhood theologians.
Hamas had tremendous success in the January 25, 2006 parliamentary elections, routing Fatah, and winning 74 seats in the 132-seat legislature, with Fatah earning a disappointing 45 seats.  Hamas will thus form the next Palestinian Authority government, with Mahmoud Abbas remaining as Palestinian Authority President.
Through the 2006 election campaign, Hamas candidates and leadership did not disavow their commitment to an “armed struggle” against Israel, their refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist, or the precepts of the Hamas Charter.  Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar declared on Palestinian TV, “We do not recognize the Israeli enemy, nor his right to be our neighbor, nor to stay (on the land), nor his ownership of any inch of land. . . .
Hamas Covenant proclaims, "The land of Palestine is an Islamic trust... It is forbidden to anyone to yield or concede any part of it... Until Islam will obliterate it..."
Hamas' military and political leaders are based throughout the West Bank and Gaza and the organization maintains offices and representatives in Teheran, Damascus and Amman. The connections and levels of coordination between the military and political branches are concealed.
In early 2006, Hamas began operation of a television station based in Gaza, Al Aksa TV, which broadcasts primarily religious and children's programming.  Al Aksa TV – which Hamas says it hopes to soon broadcast via satellite to broaden its audience – is likely to become a key tool in propagating Hamas' extremist message.  The host of the al-Aqsa station's children's program told the New York Times that his show "will teach children the basics of militant Palestinian politics..." infering al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade which is a coalition of Palestinian nationalist militias in the West Bank and "Fatah".  In November 2003 BBC journalists uncovered a payment by Fatah of $50,000 a month to al-Aqsa. The investigation produced documents found by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and led Israel to draw the conclusion that the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have always been directly funded by Yasser Arafat. Al-Aqsa is designated as a terrorist group by the United States, Canada, Japan, Israel and the European Union.  Fatah, al-Aqsa and Hamas are all "Palestinian rights" promoters but their terrorist attacks, murder-suicide bomings, etc. Againt Israels' civilians and military are clearly not genuine attemps at "statehood" but rather the carrying out of the chartered "goal" of Israel's ultimate extinction and the establishment of a Caliphate nation in it's place. Hamas launched its campaign of violence in 1989, first against Israeli soldiers and suspected Palestinian collaborators, and then against Israeli civilians. In the wake of the Oslo agreement, Hamas leaders intensified their rhetoric and vowed to derail the peace process through violent attacks. Drive-by shootings, firebombings and stabbings increased.  Suicide missions began in April 1994, when a Hamas suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a bus in Afula killing eight and wounding 50 others.
Since that time Hamas has claimed responsibility for hundreds of attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets.  Israeli security sources have thwarted scores more.  Following Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, Hamas carried out dozens of rocket attacks against civilian targets in southern Israel.  According to the Israel Defense Forces, through suicide bombings and other violent attacks,  Hamas has killed nearly 300 Israelis since September 2000, and wounded over 2,000.Hamas continued to plan and perpetrate terrorist attacks, and helped provide support for attacks claimed by other terrorist organizations - al-Aqsa among others.
The answer to the "question of a Palestinian State" should be self evident based on these facts:  A resounding NEVER.  Israel has a right to exist without attack.  "Palestine" is another holocaust in the making - it must be destroyed at the root - i.e.: In "Palestine".  For a list of "Palestinian" terrorist attacks on Israel see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks BTW - "Palestine" (the name) was created in A.D. 70 when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple on the Mount and declared the land of Israel would be no more. The Romans promised it would be known as "Palestine." The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland - Israel.
There is no "Palestinian" language or culture (aside from terrorism). There has never been a land known as Palestine. Palestinians are Arabs, Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
NO to Palestine - now and forever.
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blurtthetruth tillithurts
CORRECTION: Regarding the Six Day war of 1967 "tri-calphate" is corrected to "tri-country" and "attack" is corrected to "Israeli preemptive strikes".
blurtthetruth tillithurts
CORRECTION - strike "now and forever" in the last sentence. Replace with: "as it currently is" :)

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