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Originally Posted by tony404
Imagine your home and there is a knock on the door. It's men with guns and they say this property is ours because a book of fairy tales tells us so. Wouldn't you be a little pissed and then they take more and more of the land your people have. You don't have a army, no one else is standing up for you so how do you fight.
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perhaps you forgot that in 47 the UN decided to give both a state and the original jewish state as proposed by the UN was signifantly smaller than Isreal is today. But the Arabs decided to try to kill all jews there and they lost and the Jewish state ended up beeing much bigger than the UN had invisioned.
The the Arabs tried again to drive the Jews back into the sea and they lost every single time. That's how Israel got the west bank and the Gaza strip.
Now I agree .. propably wasn't the brightest idea to build settlements in the occupied terretories. But at the time they were a strategic necessity. Do some research and you will find that the settlements were really started after the Yom-Kippur war in 73 when the Syria and Egypt almost succeeded in the first few days of the war. Had Jordan joined in and attacked Israel from the east the Arabs would've suceeded for sure. Therefore it was decided to create settlements in the west bank which would serve as a first line of defense, especcially making it hard to access Jerusalem from Jordan.
Just imagine living in a country surrounded by others that want to wipe you from the face of the earth. How would you react. Do you think Isreal wanted the current crisis? Who started it?
Have you considered that maybe Iran had a hand in this in order to stop talk about their nuclear program and instead focus attention on the Israel-Hisbollah problem?