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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Jewish and pro-Israel.  I fully support a two-state solution, but feel as though Hamas doesn't support this as they do not acknowledge Israel's right to exist.  That being sad, even though I am pro-Israel, any news of a civilian death (especially a child) is heartbreaking.  No Jewish person I know rejoices to hear an innocent Palestinian is killed and I can't imagine how terrible life is in Gaza right now.  [b]I just don't know what better options Israel has[/b].[/quote]
Very simple, stop the illegal occupation and give people back their land. It is not rocket science....[/quote]

Since it's very simple, what land are you suggesting should be given back? [/quote]

The entire land that wasn't theirs to begin with. There is only one solution : A one state solution. I will repeat what I said yesterday. Palestine/Israel is as unpartitionable as was South Africa and Northern Ireland, where similar ethnic conflicts had also defied resolution for generations. In both places, it was only when the dominant group dropped its insistence on supremacy that a political settlement could be reached. What was once unimaginable happened: Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and F.W. de Klerk's National Party joined hands in a national unity government in 1994. Leaders in Northern Ireland made similar progress . [/quote]

And what do you see happening to the Israelis, their families and their homes?  Wholesale evictions based on where someone claims their grandfather lived 60 years ago? [/quote]
Are you that concerned about Palestinian families that got expelled to make room for Jews in 1948? They got expelled forcibly and then Israel passed the law that said that land is abandoned and now legally belonged to Israel.  That's confiscation, pure and simple.  And by the way, it only applies to Arabs, not Jews.  If a Jewish person shows legal claim to the land pre-1948, they get restitution.  If they are Arab, they get bubkes. Is this fair?  A Jewish person can present a legal claim showing their grandfather lived there 60 years ago, and guess what, an Arab who lives there now can be expelled. Is this fair?

I don't know if you can restore the land to its original owners.  But I do know that redemption - just like with Holocaust - begins by saying "we were wrong. We committed a terrible crime and violation by expelling you and stealing your land.  We were wrong. This was a crime.  And we'll figure out a way to make it up to you."

Yes, Jews suffered terribly in the Holocaust. But you know what? The satisfaction they got was a global acknowledgment that the way they were treated was wrong and criminal, and it must not happened again.  Palestinians never got that. Yet. [/quote]

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