Let's just put it this way - both sides have a point. They both need someplace to live. The Israelis never wanted the Palestinians to leave, but they had to kill or be killed. Neither should we forget that it was the surrounding Arab governments who encouraged all the Palestinians to leave, take up arms, and reconquer in a few weeks. They abdicated that responsibility and they've been letting the Palestinians down ever since. They're the real villians here!

I like my friend Steve's suggestion: let the Palestinians have everything east of that main mountain ridge than Jerusalem sits on, and the Israelis have everything on the west.

By the way, if (some of) the Jews never left and went to Egypt, what makes you think they ever migrated to Israel fr somewhere else? Don't you suppose they must've been there all along in that case? Kinda takes the wind outta "we were here first".

Here's a little fact that may help people to understand why the Jews have to be so wary: it was the Grand Mufti, (Yasser Arafat's uncle) who said "Not in my backyard!" when Hitler proposed sending all the Jews back to Israel/Palestine - he encouraged extermination. Some say he actually originated the plan.

Take that and the fact that the surrounding Arab countries have always been much happier to attack Israel than give the Palestinians a little chunk of land someplace.