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Originally posted by Collegeboy
I am giving no one any excuse to do what they do.
Well then FOL you can say that Israel intentionally attacks Palestinian civilians.
What was it 4 months or so ago that it came all over the news that the IDF dropped a bomb on a Palestinian APARTMENT COMPLEX, guess what. It was to kill one guy, one guy with one bomb. Don't worry that 2,000 other people were killed, they shouldn't have been there. Come on now, lets use some logic.
Both sides are to blame.
Shartly. I was lucky to have been born in the US. Even though I grew up in not so good conditions it was better then if I was born in many other places. The US was lucky to get were it is at. We as a people are lucky to have the things we have. People in other countries work harder then we do and have much less. So please don't say we have earned everything we have. But is this to say we should feel sorry, no. Just trying to get people to understand what others go through everyday.
RP. I question the President for it is my right. IF we do not question authority then we will fall into the conditions of the USSR after Stalin. Where you do not question the leader, they know everything, and you know nothing. They will make the right decisions. The US was like this until Nixon. Then we found out that presidents are not the perfect persons we have thought them to be. By questioning the President we make him have to second guess his choices, which is a very good thing.
ShooterJM
The partition plan of 1948 is Israel’s legal boarders. The land they have gained after that through wars is the occupied land that I am saying give back to their lawful owners. The 1948 partition plan still stands today as the boarders of Israel officially. I have read many books about life in Palestine prior to 1948 and after. I know about the Jewish terrorist groups and the Palestinian Terrorist groups that attacked the British to get them out. I know about the Balfour Declaration and such.
1st Deadeye
I am not one sided it just seems so for most of you all are one-sided against the Palestinians, so when I try and say how it is there, it makes me seem one sided, I believe both sides are at fault.
Yes a girl in my Russian class is an ethic Ukrainian Jew whose parents migrated from Ukraine during the civil war (1918 to 1920 or so) to Israel. Her parents still live there, and they sent her here to get away from the troubles in her home land. She is staying with her aunt who is also a Ukrainian Jew. How her aunt ended up in Alabama, I have no idea. Any ways she told what it is like just to go to school. IN Israel she personal has to get on three buses to get to her school. She was crying one day when she told me that she could remember how the bus she normally gets on she missed for she was running late. As she was running to the bus to try and get it, she saw it explode. I didn't even ask on. I felt sorry for even asking, but she appreciated my curiosity. A couple of day later she asked me if I had anymore questions. I said yes but are you ok to answer them. She said yes. I asked, do you harbor any hatred for the Palestinians. She said to be honest, yes I hated them so much after I almost died, and every bombing leads me to more hatred. But after awhile I cool down and come to the understanding, that most Palestinians are good, it is just the bad ones that make it bad for the rest. To end it, I asked do you ever see a change coming in your home land. She smiled and said yes. And I will be the one to do it. I smiled and was puzzled sort of so she went on. She said that there is a growing movement in the youths of a comradely between Israelis and Palestinians. They talk with each other to know how it is on the other side of the fence. The understand what each other is going through. She said one day when all the leaders who are full of hatred are dead, then maybe I can get on a bus without wondering if it will be my last moment. (I tried to best remember what she said, this was last semester)
Also if you lived in those camps you might call in a concentration camp too (And no that is of no disrespect to any Jewish people) If you think it is, then you are too PC.