No, Deda. My hope is that the Palestinians will be granted their own state within the '67 borders, and that the settlements will be removed.
My wish is that people will learn to recognise that blaming the Arabs for the problems in the middle east is as much a form of spreading hatred as is anti-semitism. I don't expect that to happen right away, but I think if the Palestinians are allowed to have the same civil rights as the Jews in Israel, and those of us in the US, future generations will come to know that Arabs as friends rather than enemies.
No, Deda. My hope is that the Palestinians will be granted their own state withing the '67 borders, and that the settlements will be removed.
When Israel was founded, Jewish ghettos and synagogues all over the Arab world were annihilated and their homes flattened or taken. The National Geographic did a piece a few years ago about the remains of the synagogues from north Africa to, I don't know, northern Iraq or so, where the Jewish populations are now below 1% where there are any at all. Those Jews went to Israel. Should their original homes be restored to them? They don't want them anymore.
That this happened was a direct result of the actions of the Zionists in the middle east. I don't think it would make sense for the Jews to be given their land back in this case. But I also don't think it would make any sense to give the Palestinians back all of their land, either. Just let them have their own state within the 67 borders and remove the settlers.
Using a cultural basis for justifying the repression of people such as they way women are treated or other kinds of cultural considerations, is a bad one whenever it is used. Whether it is used against Native Americans, blacks, Jews, blacks in South Africa, the people of India (as was done by the British) or any number of native populations. This has been done so many times before by many governments throughout the world, and it has been found to be not only counter-productive, but also wrong.
troll, it looks like most people in Israel don't actually want the Palestinians to have an independent state. I just heard that the Likud party is being unanimous in it's opposition to independence for Palestinians.